Latest Past Events

Reimagining development in Least Developed Countries: what role for the SDGs?

Central London

The challenges and opportunities that the Sustainable Development Goals create for least developed countries will be discussed at an event in London next month. The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group, the International Institute for Environment and Development and the ESRC STEPS Centre will host a dialogue on Monday, 13 June to discuss the challenges and...

STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton

Resource Politics: Transforming Pathways to Sustainability Why now? Contexts and debates In the build up to the confirmation of the post-2015 sustainable development goals, the politics of resource access, allocation and distribution are high on global policy agendas. The limits to economic activity in the face of ‘planetary boundaries’ are being fiercely debated, and even...

Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Challenges of Nation-wide Scaling up and Sustainability

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton

This event will be live streamed (see below) and a video recording will be available afterwards. Since its innovation in Bangladesh in 2000, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has spread to more than 65 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America where more than 400 million people are now living in open defecation free (ODF) environments....