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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110719
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T112410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T112410Z
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SUMMARY:Piers Blaikie Lecture
DESCRIPTION:“Green wins or green grabs? Contested pathways to sustainability in Africa” STEPS director Melissa Leach gave the 1st Annual Piers Blaikie Lecture on Environmental Politics. Venue: Thomas Paine Lecture Theatre\, UEA. \n\nVideo: Melissa Leach’s lecture\nEvent information (pdf)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/piers-blaikie-lecture-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110628
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110701
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T112533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T112533Z
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SUMMARY:International Seminar on Innovation\, Sustainability and Development
DESCRIPTION:International Seminar on Innovation\, Sustainability and Development\, New Delhi. Hosted by NISTADS in collaboration with CDS-Trivandrum and the STEPS Centre. Funded by UKIERI\, the Minstry of Science & Technology (India) and the Ministry of Environment (India). \n\nFull programme with links to video
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/international-seminar-on-innovation-sustainability-and-development-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110513
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T112724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T112724Z
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SUMMARY:Complexity Sciences in International Development
DESCRIPTION:UKCDS workshop: “Exploring the Potential of Complexity Sciences in International Development”\, Wellcome Trust\, London. \n\nMelissa Leach’s presentation (Slideshare)\nUKCDS Meeting report (pdf)\nBen Ramalingam’s blog: reflections on the workshop \nDuncan Green’s blog: So the world is complex – what do we do differently?
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/complexity-sciences-in-international-development-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110406
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110409
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T113044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T113044Z
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SUMMARY:Global Land Grabbing Conference
DESCRIPTION:International Conference on Global Land Grabbing at Institute of Development Studies. \nConference programme
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/global-land-grabbing-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110324
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T113419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T150223Z
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SUMMARY:Water and Sanitation Symposium: Some for All?
DESCRIPTION:Liquid Dynamics II -STEPS Centre Water and Sanitation Symposium\nSome for All? Pathways and Politics in Water and Sanitation since New Delhi\, 1990 \n\nYouTube playlists\n\nSymposium presentations (view playlist on YouTube)\n\n \n\nMini-interviews with Mansoor Ali\, Louisa Gosling\, Kathy Eales\, Jon Lane and Gourisankar Ghosh\n\nKeynote and plenary presentations\n\nJon Lane’s presentation\nGourisankar Ghosh: Some for all rather than more for some\nDuncan Mara: Sanitation: what’s the real problem? \nErik Swyngedouw: H2O does not exist?? Retooling the Washington-Brussels consensus\nKathy Eales: Towards affordable\, sustainable water and sanitation services for all\nBarbara Frost: Working globally and locally for lasting change\nKamal Kar:Community-Led Total Sanitation\n\nFinal panel discussion\n\nPanel discussion (part 1)\nPanel discussion (part 2)\n\n\nBackground\nIn 1990 the General Assembly endorsed the ‘New Delhi Statement’ entitled Some for all rather than more for some. This symposium looks back at the New Delhi Statement. It seeks to understand more fully the pathways that have – or could have – emerged and the political economy and politics of water and sanitation policy processes in the intervening 21 years. \nFor more on the background\, please see the attached document: Some for All – Pathways and Politics in Water and Sanitation (pdf\, 90kb). \nThe conference includes a mixture of invited keynote talks\, perspectives and provocations which respond to the overall conference questions and themes\, with a series of panel sessions. We have invited key actors who drafted and pioneered the New Delhi statement to reflect critically on the politics and processes of the past 21 years. \nOrganisers: Lyla Mehta\, Alan Nicol and Jeremy Allouche\, STEPS Centre and IDS
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/water-and-sanitation-symposium-some-for-all-2/
LOCATION:IDS\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110312
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T114318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T114318Z
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SUMMARY:Limits to Growth Forum
DESCRIPTION:“Limits to Growth” Forum\, University of Sussex including “World Café” with Dr Adrian Ely\, project convenor\, on areas for action from Innovation\, Sustainability\, Development: A New Manifesto. Part of the University of Sussex Students’ Union “Green Week”. \n\nFull programme\nVideo: Adrian Ely on Limits to Growth
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/limits-to-growth-forum-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110223
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T101612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T101612Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Ana Cascão
DESCRIPTION:“Breaking Waters – Birth of a New Nile State” with Ana Cascão\, Stockholm International Water Institute.\nVideo: “Breaking Waters” seminar (YouTube\, 45min)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-ana-cascao-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110216
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T114514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T114514Z
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SUMMARY:1st International One Health Congress
DESCRIPTION:1st International One Health Congress\, Melbourne\, Australia. Speakers included Paul Forster\, STEPS Centre researcher\, who also participated in the discussion panel on Science\, Policy and Political Action. \nPaul Forster’s blogs from the One Health Congress
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/1st-international-one-health-congress-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110107
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T114706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T114706Z
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SUMMARY:New Manifesto roundtable: Paris
DESCRIPTION:Innovation\, Sustainability\, Development: A New Manifesto roundtable event in Paris with STEPS Co-Directors Melissa Leach\, Andy Stirling and Manifesto convenor Adrian Ely. \n\nConservatoire national des arts et metiers (venue)\nInstitut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société (co-hosts)\nFondation Sciences Citoyennes (co-hosts)\nNew Manifesto (French translation)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/new-manifesto-roundtable-paris-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101210
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T101835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T101835Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Ronald J Herring
DESCRIPTION:“State Science and its Discontents: Why India’s Second Transgenic Crop Did Not Follow the Path of Bt Cotton” with Ronald J. Herring\, Cornell University. \nRonald Herring’s slides (slideshare)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-ronald-j-herring-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101126
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T101959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T101959Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Lisa Ann Richey
DESCRIPTION:“Brand Aid:  Shopping Well to Save the World”. Lisa Ann Richey\, Professor of International Development Studies\, Roskilde University\, Denmark. \nVideo: Brand Aid seminar (blip.tv\, 20min)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-lisa-ann-richey-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101119
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120123T214913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120123T214913Z
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SUMMARY:First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
DESCRIPTION:First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Montreux\, Switzerland. \nContributions from STEPS Centre members: \n\nMichael Loevinsohn: New directions in environment-health research: implications for health systems\nGerald Bloom: Beyond Scaling Up\nBlogs from Montreux
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/first-global-symposium-on-health-systems-research-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101117
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T102153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T102153Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Water Seminar: Undala Alam
DESCRIPTION:“India and Pakistan’s truculent cooperation: Is 50 years enough?” STEPS Water Seminar with Undala Alam\, School of Politics\, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University\, Belfast. \nUndala Alam’s slides (Slideshare)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-undala-alam-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101102
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T102326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T102326Z
UID:11009-1288569600-1288655999@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Water Seminar: Alex Shankland and Ken Caplan
DESCRIPTION:“Shit and Citizenship: The Political Economy of Sanitation Investment in Brazil.” STEPS Water Seminar with Alex Shankland\, Institute of Development Studies and Ken Caplan\, Director\, Building Partnerships for Development. \n\nVideo: “Shit and Citizenship” presentation (blip.tv\, 43min)\nAlex Shankland and Ken Caplan’s slides (Slideshare)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-water-seminar-alex-shankland-and-ken-caplan-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100926
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120123T215144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120123T215144Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Conference 2010: Pathways to Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Conference 2010: Pathways to Sustainability Agendas for a new politics of environment\, development and social justice 23-24 September 2010 at the Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex University. \n \nVideo from the conference\nKeynote speeches\n\nDay 1: Melissa Leach\, STEPS Centre Director – “Pathways to Sustainability: The STEPS Centre’s Approach” \nDay 2: Arun Agrawal\, University of Michigan on social sciences and the use of human subjects\n\nRio+20 Policy/Research Roundtable\nA roundtable on sustainability research and its implications for policy\, in the run-up to the Earth Summit 2012. \n\nFull roundtable (54 min)\n\nIndividual roundtable speakers: \n\nAndrew Scott\, Practical Action (11 min)\nNicole Dewandre\, European Commission (11 min)\nYvan Biot\, Department for International Development (7 min)\nDerek Osborn\, Stakeholder Forum (9 min)\nCamilla Toulmin\, International Institute for Environment and Development (12 min)\n\n\nPresentations\nMost of the presentations from the conference are available to view on our Slideshare site. \n\nSlideshare: Conference presentations\n\n\nPhotos from the conference\n\nSTEPS Centre Conference 2010 (photo set on Flickr)\n\n\nBackground\nAmidst unprecedented evidence of rapid environmental change and complex ecological dynamics\, addressing environmental sustainability has become a central practical\, moral and political challenge of our times. \nWith social systems changing rapidly too\, linked to population growth\, urbanisation\, mobility and globalized economic change\, core development challenges around alleviating poverty and inequity are also becoming more complex. \nIn this context\, how might pathways to sustainability – that link environmental integrity with social justice – be conceptualised and built? As the world prepares to unite for the ‘Rio+20’ Earth Summit in 2012\, what ideas\, concepts and agendas can best inform effective action? How can we enrich and (re)invigorate our intellectual and practical repertoires towards a new politics of environment\, development and social justice? \n\nConference themes\nThe five themes of the conference are: \n\nContesting sustainabilities\nFraming narratives\nDynamics and sustainability\nUncertainty\, ambiguity and surprise\nPathway-building and governance\n\n\nConference format\nThe conference comprised a mixture of invited keynote talks\, perspectives and provocations which respond to the overall conference questions and themes\, with a series of parallel panel sessions. \nThere was also an “Open Space” session which included posters and films presented by conference participants.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-conference-2010-pathways-to-sustainability-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100909
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120123T215542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120123T215542Z
UID:11042-1283904000-1283990399@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:World Water Week
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Centre session at World Water Week\, Stockholmsmässan\, Stockholm: Liquid Dynamics II: Linking quality and access for pro-poor sustainability.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/world-water-week-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100618
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T104108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T104108Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Juan Mariano Fressoli
DESCRIPTION:“Technologies for Social Inclusion in Latin America.” STEPS Seminar with Juan Mariano Fressoli\, Researcher\, Instituto de Estudios sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología\, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes\, Argentina. \nMariano’s presentation (Slideshare)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-juan-mariano-fressoli-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100616
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120123T215854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120123T215854Z
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SUMMARY:New Manifesto launch event
DESCRIPTION:Video and materials from the launch event at the Royal Society in London are available on the New Manifesto website http://anewmanifesto.org/multimedia/manifesto-launch-video/
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/new-manifesto-launch-event-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100526
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120123T220635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120123T220635Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond Scaling Up
DESCRIPTION:The STEPS Centre and its affiliate partner Future Health Systems launched a series of activities that challenge the thinking behind prevailing concepts of “scaling up” in the health sector. \nPractical approaches for improving access to health care\nThe STEPS Centre and its affiliate partner Future Health Systems are working to challenge the prevailing concepts of “scaling up” in the health sector. \nDownload the Beyond Scaling Up flyer (pdf 800kb)  \n\nPublications\nSTEPS Working Paper 39: Beyond Scaling Up\nBeyond Scaling Up: Pathways to Universal Access to Health Services (pdf 570kb)\nBy Gerald Bloom and Peroline Ainsworth \nThere is a growing impatience at national and international levels with the persistence of high burdens of ill health for which effective\ninterventions are available. Successful strategies need to combine large scale interventions and local adaptation and innovation. This paper explores alternative approaches for managing large scale health system changes in low and middle-income countries. \n\nDownload this paper (pdf 570kb)\nBriefing: Beyond Scaling Up: improving access to health services (pdf 227kb)\n\n\nEvents\n17 Nov 2010: Michael Loevinsohn: “New directions in environment-health research: implications for health systems”. Session at the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Montreux\, Switzerland. \n18 Nov 2010: Gerald Bloom: “Beyond Scaling Up”. Session at the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. \n\nWorkshop on Beyond Scaling Up\, 24-25 May 2010\nA workshop was held at the Institute of Development Studies in May 2010. The objectives were to: \n\nexplore approaches that have fostered innovation\, rapid learning and large-scale impact in the health sector that incorporate context and social arrangements as central to learning and change\nidentify practical approaches for collaboration between innovators\, researchers\, governments and funding agencies to strengthen the capacity of health systems to meet the needs of the poor.\n\nResources from the workshop\n\nWorkshop agenda\nPresentation slides: view or download\nPhotos of the workshop \nVideo: interviews with participants \n\nTopics covered at the workshop include: \n\nexperiences with large scale health interventions\nlocal innovations\nnew information communications technologies\ncitizen/health system interactions and\nbuilding an evidence base to take this work forward.\n\nWorkshop briefings\nA set of briefings summarising the discussions at the meeting: \n\nBriefing 1 – Beyond Scaling Up workshop (pdf\, 2.6MB)\nBriefing 2: Experiences with large scale health interventions (pdf\, 1MB)\nBriefing 3: Exploring local innovation (pdf\, 2.1MB)\nBriefing 4: Innovations in context of rapid change (pdf\, 1.6MB)\nBriefing 5: How does the increased flow of information influence the speed and coherence of change? (pdf\, 1.13MB)\nBriefing 6: Citizen/health system relations (pdf\, 1.75MB)\nBriefing 7: Building evidence to support rapid change (pdf\, 3MB)\n\n\nAbout the Beyond Scaling Up project\nHow do we meet the health needs of the poor?\nThere is an increasing awareness amongst policy-makers in developing countries that their government’s health services do not adequately meet the health-related needs of the poor. \nOpinions on how to improve access to services vary. There is a long standing debate on the relative merits of blue-print approaches\, which involve the replication of a well-designed intervention in multiple settings\, and locally driven approaches\, which rely exclusively on local innovation. Both have limitations. \nThe dominant response of developing country decision makers and donors has been to identify interventions which have been cost-effective in meeting health-related needs\, often through pilot projects\, and propose that these interventions are “scaled up” through the design of large programmes. Most discussions of scaling up focus explicitly or implicitly on the public sector and on the interventions which increased public resources should fund\, whether through integrated or vertical approaches. \nLimits to blue-print approaches\nBut a growing body of evidence indicates that the translation of increased resources into improved access is much more complex than the language of “scaling-up” implies. Health-related needs are diverse; they vary by setting and group. Blue-print approaches are rarely adaptive enough to work in predictable ways in different contexts\, and are likely to produce unintended consequences\, which can lead to poorly functioning and unsustainable interventions. In the case of locally driven approaches\, it is more difficult to move to institutional scale and transmit learning from one site to another\, so the impact may be local and modest. \nOur work on “Beyond Scaling Up: Pathways to Universal Access” will explore emerging approaches that support local and scaled up innovations and facilitate rapid organisational learning about what works and what does not. It will contribute to discussions of practical approaches for ensuring that substantial increases in health financing lead to significant improvements in access to health services. \nAn era of transition and uncertainty\nWe are in the midst of a number of simultaneous transitions in demography\, epidemiology\, medical technology\, information and communications technologies and economic and governance arrangements. We need to identify strategies for working with the uncertainties that these changes bring in addressing major health-related needs. We need to recognise that socio-technical systems and social institutions move along pathways that are profoundly influenced by their historical development. This both produces path dependency and opens opportunities for different models to emerge\, and for alternative pathways to be built and promoted.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/beyond-scaling-up-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100313
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T104522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120120T104522Z
UID:11011-1268352000-1268438399@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Water Seminar: Mansoor Ali
DESCRIPTION:Are there any secret millionaires in waste? The framings of real waste systems in Karachi and Dhaka. Modernisation and globalisation of waste systems and their divide with the real systems\, with Mansoor Ali\, Practical Action. \n\nMansoor Ali’s presentation (Slideshare)\nDescription flyer (pdf)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-water-seminar-mansoor-ali-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100302
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120123T221008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120123T221008Z
UID:11045-1267401600-1267487999@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS/Sussex Energy Group Seminar
DESCRIPTION:STEPS/Sussex Energy Group Seminar – Rob Byrne\, SPRU. \nThe challenges of low-carbon development: From technology transfer to socio-technical transformation. \n Rob Byrne’s presentation (Slideshare)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/stepssussex-energy-group-seminar-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100209
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120123T221156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120123T221156Z
UID:11046-1265587200-1265673599@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:UNESCO EPFL Conference on ‘Technologies for Development’
DESCRIPTION:UNESCO EPFL Conference on ‘Technologies for Development’. Prof. Melissa Leach\, STEPS Centre director\, gave a presentation on the New Manifesto project.\nPresentation: Sustainability\, Development\, Social Justice: Towards a new politics of innovation (Slideshare)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/unesco-epfl-conference-on-technologies-for-development-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091217T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091218T170059
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120124T101248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120124T101248Z
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SUMMARY:The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) workshop
DESCRIPTION:Low-cost\, high production farming in an era of scarcity\nThe STEPS Centre hosted an informal roundtable to discuss the spread and diversification of SRI\, the conflicts that have arisen around it\, and the social\, institutional and political dynamics that underlie them. \n \nIt brought together Prof. Norman Uphoff of Cornell University\, USA\, Dr. Willem Stoop from the Netherlands and Mr. Biksham Gujja of WWF – who have all played important roles in the evaluation and dissemination of SRI; researchers from Wageningen University\, Netherlands who are embarking on a study of SRI’s development in India and Madagascar and a number of STEPS and IDS colleagues. The aim was to gain a better understanding of this evolving and multi-layered phenomenon and to sharpen the focus of research in view or in planning. \n\nDraft agenda and questions (pdf 61kb) \nSystem of Rice Intensification (SRI) meeting photoset\nPresentation: Perspectives on SRI: Biksham Gujja\n\nWhat is SRI?\nSRI – also as le Systéme de Riziculture Intensive in French and la Sistema Intensivo de Cultivo Arrocero (SICA) in Spanish – is a methodology for increasing the productivity of irrigated rice cultivation by changing the management of plants\, soil\, water and nutrients. SRI proponents say its practices lead to healthier\, more productive soil and plants by supporting greater root growth and by nurturing the abundance and diversity of soil organisms. SRI is low cost for poor farmers because it does not require the purchase of new seeds or the use of chemical fertilizer and agrochemicals. Seed costs are cut by 80-90%\, and because paddy fields are not kept continuously flooded\, there are water savings of 25 to 50%\, a major benefit in many places. Find out more \n\nWhy is SRI important?\nThe System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is eye-catching for many reasons. It is an innovation that emerged from the highlands of Madagascar and has spread to countries on at least three continents. Farmers report achieving rice yields 50-100% above their usual harvests – in some cases pushing what scientists have claimed as rice’s physiological potential – while using substantially less water for irrigation. In a context of growing scarcity and competition over water\, this in itself is noteworthy. \nThe innovation builds not on any advanced technique such as genetic modification but on how the crop is managed: transplanting young seedlings\, spacing them widely\, and keeping soils well aerated and moist\, but not flooded. And SRI was developed not in labs or research stations or by farmers in their fields but by a priest who trained as an agronomist and worked with farmers.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-system-of-rice-intensification-sri-workshop-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091212
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120124T101447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120124T101447Z
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SUMMARY:The Publics of Public Health Conference
DESCRIPTION:Challenging new arrangements for health research and care are emerging amidst globalisation\, privatisation and the rise of new marketised and pluralized systems. What are the ‘new publics’ emerging in this context? Who is benefiting and who is losing? A conference co-convened by\, and featuring speakers from the STEPS Centre. Melissa Leach’s blogs from Kilifi\, kenya: \n\nNew public health agendas\, new publics\nAlternative narratives of public health
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-publics-of-public-health-conference-2/
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SUMMARY:STEPS Centre Symposium 2009
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Centre Symposium: Innovation\, Sustainability\, Development: Emerging Emerging themes\, challenges and opportunities (pdf)  \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-centre-symposium-2009-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091104
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SUMMARY:STEPS Water Symposium: Liquid Dynamics I
DESCRIPTION:The first Liquid Dynamics symposium at IDS\, Brighton\, UK. \n \nSymposium report:  Liquid Dynamics: Accessing Water and Sanitation in an Uncertain Age – Symposium Report (pdf 485kb) \nRelated research & events\n\nLyla Mehta interview: “Shit happens”\, British Medical Journal podcast\, 17 September 2010.\nLyla Mehta is quoted in the British Medical Journal article Toiling for toilets\, 15 September 2010.\nEldis blog: Water and sanitation for all: the need to go beyond numbers and beyond the MDGs by Lyla Mehta and Jeremy Allouche\, 17 September 2010.\nThe STEPS water team held an event at World Water Week 2010 in Stockholm: Liquid Dynamics II.\nLiquid Dynamics II: Linking quality and access for pro-poor Sustainability\nWorld Water Week 2010 homepage\nBlogs from World Water Week 2010\n\nSTEPS water and sanitation research featured in an article entitled Water Flows\, in the Spring 2010 edition of Society Now\nCase study: The social life of water\, The Guardian\, November 2009. Part of the ESRC feature “Climate change and you”.\nThe STEPS water team held an event at World Water Week in Stockholm in August 2009\, using case studies from our peri-urban work in Delhi and Community-Led Total Sanitation.\nBlog from World Water Week in Stockholm\nPodcast of STEPS session at World Water Week\nPresentations from Stockholm\nPhotos from World Water Week\nSTEPS at World Water Week 2009\, Stockholm \n\n\nBlog from World Water Forum in Istanbul\n\nThe Hay Festival Greenprint Forum\, In collaboration with UNESCO – Earth\, Wind\, Fire and Water. STEPS Centre water and sanitation convenor speaks on the water panel. 21 May 2009\nGoing to Scale with Community-Led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience\, Issues and Ways Forward by Robert Chambers\, Price £ 12.95\nCommunity-Led Total Sanitation As the International Year of Sanitation\, 2008\, drew to a close\, the CLTS conference highlighted this innovative way of mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation. Dec 16-18 2008\nPhotos from the CLTS conference \nLiquid Dynamics: challenges for water and sanitation Comment from our researchers and partners to mark UN Sanitation and Hygiene Week 2008.\nSanitation Scandal – the priorities for World Water Week 2008\nWater: the ethics of efficiency Lyla Mehta writes about whether our food is too thirsty for Food Ethics magazine (pdf 2MB)\nWorld Toilet Day 2007 – examples of the Community-Led Total Sanitation approach \nWorld Water Day podcast (5.21 mins\, 3MB)\nThe STEPS Centre marked World Water Day 2007 with a special podcast in which STEPS member Lyla Mehta and IDS Research Associate Robert Chambers talk about what they believe are the most pressing issues for water and sanitation.\nTop five priorities for World Water Day 2007\nCoping with water scarcity – Lyla Mehta\nSpend less to achieve more – Robert Chambers\nRain-fed areas and rice farming – John Thompson\nSanitation\, suffering and safety: women and water – Petra Bongartz\nIrrigation\, contamination & food safety for the urban and peri-urban poor. Research by STEPS member Fiona Marshall\nThe politics and poetics of water scarcity – research by STEPS member Lyla Mehta\nReframing Resilience The STEPS Centre’s theme for 2008 was resilience; engaging with resilience thinking and exploring practical implications for policy in agriculture\, water\, peri-urban dynamics\, epidemics and regulation.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-water-symposium-liquid-dynamics-i-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090822
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
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SUMMARY:STEPS at World Water Week
DESCRIPTION:August 2009: STEPS event at World Water Week in Stockholm\, with case studies from our peri-urban work in Delhi and Community-Led Total Sanitation.\nBlog from World Water Week in Stockholm\nPodcast of STEPS session at World Water Week\nPresentations from Stockholm\nPhotos from World Water Week\nSTEPS at World Water Week 2009\, Stockholm
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-at-world-water-week-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090617
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T104738Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS New Manifesto Seminar: Dr Padmashree Gehl Sampath
DESCRIPTION:Innovation\, Sustainability\, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar \nDr Padmashree Gehl Sampath of the United Nations University gave a seminar entitled ‘Promoting Knowledge Generation through Intellectual property in Late Development’ \n\nListen to the podcast \nPhotos from the seminar (Flickr)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-new-manifesto-seminar-dr-padmashree-gehl-sampath-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090611
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120124T105711Z
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SUMMARY:Dangerous Ideas in Development: GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis
DESCRIPTION:10 June 2009: “Dangerous Ideas in Development – GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis” The STEPS Centre held an event in Parliament on 10 June 2009 as part of the Institute of Development Studies’ Dangerous Ideas in Development debates\, organised with the APG Debt\, Aid and Trade. The event launched the STEPS Biotechnology Research Archive and a new paper on Bt Cotton by Dominic Glover. Dominic\, Peter Newell of UEA and Erik Millstone were the speakers. \n \n\nPhotos from the event \nBiotechnology Research Archive\nWorking Paper: Undying Promise: Agricultural Biotechnology’s Pro-Poor Narrative\, Ten Years On\nBriefing: Transgenic cotton; a ‘pro-poor’ success? \nIan Scoones’ backgrounder\, GM Crops: 10 Years On\nDominic Glover on the Undying Promise\nGM Crops and the Global Food Crisis event\, June 10\, London\nid21 Viewpoints: GM Crops\nEldis Biotechnology Key Issues Guide
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/dangerous-ideas-in-development-gm-crops-and-the-global-food-crisis-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090306
DTSTAMP:20260403T221858
CREATED:20120120T105004Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS New Manifesto Seminar: Joanna Chataway
DESCRIPTION:Innovation\, Sustainability\, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar\nJoanna Chataway\, Co-Director of the ESRC Innogen Research Centre\, Development Policy and Practice\, Open University gave a seminar entitled ‘Below the Radar’: A user and market driven account of disruptive (and constructive) innovation for low income users. \n\nView Joanna Chataway’s presentation (on Slideshare) \nPhotos from the seminar (Flickr)\nListen to the podcast
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-new-manifesto-seminar-joanna-chataway-2/
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