ODI [to 16 January 2016]

ODI [to 16 January 2016]
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Urbanisation: consequences and opportunities for the Netherlands’ Directorate-General for International Cooperation
Research reports and studies | January 2016 | Irina Mosel, Paula Lucci, Julian Doczi, Clare Cummings, Aditya Bahadur, David Walker, Lucy Scott, Hamish Nixon
This report examines the impacts of urbanisation on areas including water management, climate change and disaster risk reduction, gender, food security, emergency aid, and peace, security and conflict.

The urban-rural water interface: a preliminary study in Burkina Faso
Working and discussion papers | January 2016 | Peter Newborne; Josephine Tucker
An initial framing paper produced in partnership with WISE-UP that looks at water allocation in Ouagadougou, and how the government manages the issue of water allocation between rural and urban areas, especially in semi-arid regions.

10 things to know about progress in international development
Rresource | January 2016
Around the world, amazing progress is being made in human well-being, from health to poverty to education and more. Here we showcase 10 examples from Development Progress case studies.

Resilience Scan: July-September 2015
Research reports and studies | January 2016 | Aditya Bahadur, Thomas Tanner, Emma Lovell, Florence Pichon and Hani Morsi
This resilience scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the third quarter (July to September) of 2015.

Future directions of security and justice: context-relevant, flexible and transnational programming?
Research reports and studies | January 2016 | Lisa Denney and Pilar Domingo
This report identifies some emerging trends in security and justice and examines what these trends might mean for programme implementation.

Thinking and working with political settlements
Briefing papers | January 2016 | Tim Kelsall
This briefing offers advice to development practitioners on the use of Political Settlements Analysis, while drawing links between PSA and Adaptive Development approaches.