Programmes

Learn more about GDN's CURRENT PROGRAMMES and ANNUAL PROGRAMMES. 

All GDN’s programmes are built on a bedrock of:

• co-creating research questions with multiple stakeholders
• global and cross-country research on global development issues
• collaborative and comparative thematic research
• multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches
• advancing development thinking and public policy
• balancing research production with capacity strengthening (including research communications training)
• working with low- and middle-income counties (LMICs), and underserved research environments and groups
• mentoring as a tool for deepening critical thinking and rigour at all levels and quality control
• awarding excellence in research and development programs
• identifying talent and supporting Southern voices in global debates
• catalysing strategic investments in the production, diffusion and uptake of social sciences in LMICS.

These programmes and innovations emerge on the experience of completed programmes in our portfolio including development finance, quality of education, aid effectiveness, firm- and sector-level productivity, and natural capital accounting across developing countries, among other topics. Our older programmes are listed in the programme archives.

Despite a general crisis of trust in science and the growing marginalisation of social science funding, GDN remains particularly interested in strengthening the positive impact of locally generated research and knowledge on development debates and policy.

For more information, write to Francesco Obino, Director of Research and Programmes at fobino@gdn.int.