Seminar: The STEPS Centre and the Participate Initiative – addressing fundamental questions in the post-2015 debate

Room 221 IDS, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

This seminar is an opportunity for discussion between different areas of work at the Institute of Development Studies aiming to address some of the fundamental questions surrounding the creation of a post-2015 development framework. The STEPS Centre is currently undertaking work around aligning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS ) and post 2015 framework processes, and Fellows in...

Tackling trade-offs in the food-water-energy nexus: lessons for the SDGs

Overseas Development Institute 203 Blackfriars Road, London, United Kingdom

This Overseas Development Institute event will be chaired by former STEPS Director Melissa Leach and includes a contribution from our Water & Sanitation theme convenor Lyla Mehta. Achieving poverty eradication and sustained progress in development will depend upon the use of natural resources as we enter a new era of post-2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs)....

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

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

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....

STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics

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

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...

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...