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News

IDS Gender pay report. Read more.

SLG Feedback - April 2018. Read more.

Diary

Monday 9 April
IDS Climate Change and Development seminar, 'The Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge Programme:

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A Reflection on Research co-production'. Mark Pelling, Professor of Geography, King's College

London. 13:00 to 14:30 in Room 221. All welcome.

Tuesday 10 April
IDS Members seminar, 'Building a Just Future: Leadership and Transformational Change'. Lina
Srivastava, creator of the Transformational Change Leadership Project. 13:00 to 14:30 in Room
221. All welcome.

Wednesday 11 April
IDS Members seminar, 'Water Mafia’ Politics, Groundwater Governance and Unruly Informality in
Delhi'. Matt Birkinshaw. 13:00 to 14:30 in the IDS Convening Space. All welcome.

Thursday 12 April
Sussex Development Lecture, 'Bridging the Humanitarian-Development Divide'. Melissa Leach,
Director, IDS, Harriet Lamb, CEO, International Alert and Tamsyn Barton, CEO, Bond. 17:00 to
18:30 in the IDS Convening Space. All welcome. Register here.

Friday 13 April
The Life and Legacy of Geoff Oldham.

Morning workshop (3rd floor, Bramber House): 09:30 to 12:30 .

Memorial service (Meeting House): 14:00 to 14:45.
Afternoon workshop (3rd floor, Bramber House): 15:00 to 17:30.

The event is co-hosted by SPRU and IDRC, with support from IDS. More information on Geoff's
life and work.

Members

PhD student Marie Claire Burt Wolf is in Paraguay from 2 April to 30 July, to conduct her PhD
fieldwork on 'Mentoring in Poverty Alleviation Programs'. Her research will be conducted with a
local NGO Fundacion Paraguaya.

PhD student Jennifer Castaneda Navarrete will be in Strasbourg, France from 10 to 13 April, to
participate in a roundtable on Agriculture and Social Processes. Jennifer will present part of her
doctoral research. This is part of the 'VII Conacyt Scholarship' symposium in Europe.

Robert Chambers will be in Islamabad, Pakistan from 9 to 13 April with Jamie Myers where they
will present at a session at the 7th South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-VII) and
will co-facilitate a Sharing and Learning workshop.

Amber Huff is in the US (Boone, Athens, Hattiesburg and New Orleans) from 26 March to
17 April, to deliver a talk at Appalachian State University titled ‘Nature, Labor, and Value in
Making Mangrove-Based Carbon Offsets’ and to convene two sessions for the 'Emancipatory
Rural Politics Initiative' at the annual meeting of the 'Association of American Geographers in
New Orleans'.

Gordon McGranahan and Sadaf Khan are in Dar es Salaam for a project on the 'Urban Land
Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation'.

Jamie Myers will be attending SACOSAN in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 9 to 14 April. He will then
travel to Arusha, Tanzania, from 14 to 25 April, to help run an East and Southern Africa rural
sanitation workshop.

Ian Scoones will be at the American Association of Geographers’ Annual Conference in New
Orleans, and will be a discussant on one of two panels convened as part of the Emancipatory

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Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI).

Jim Sumberg was at Wageningen University from 4 to 6 April, to participate in a PhD jury.

Stacey Townsend will be with Jamie Myers and Elaine Mercer in Arusha, Tanzania, from 14 to
23 April, where the CLTS Knowledge Hub is convening an East and Southern Africa regional
sharing and learning workshop on CLTS and rural sanitation approaches.

Publications

Building Inclusive Peace and Security in Times of Unequal Development and Rising
Violence
Robin Luckham
Peacebuilding
Taylor and Francis online

The Impact of Food Assistance on Food Insecure Populations During Conflict: Evidence
from a Quasi-experiment in Mali
Jean-Pierre Tranchant, Aulo Gelli, Lili Bliznashka, Amadou Sekou Diallo, Moussa Sacko,
Amidou Assima, Emily H. Siegel, Elisabetta Aurino and Edoardo Masset
World Development

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