As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated. I now work mainly on climate issues, especially in Brighton and Hove, and new work can be found on the website of Climate:Change, our independent think-tank on socially inclusive action in the City: www.climatechangebh.org.uk.
Meanwhile, however, this website has over 850 entries, mostly representing my work on international development from 2010-2025. Among much else, there are over 50 book reviews, more than 20 papers and training cases on bridging research and policy and on managing think-tanks, nearly 100 articles on climate change, and many papers on other topics, including aid, food security and nutrition, and the future of international development. See ‘Topics and Themes’ for more details. I can be reached at sm@simonmaxwell.net.
Inspiring Action to Reduce Poverty
Inspiring Action to Reduce Poverty, ODI Opinion 108, September 2008
This Opinion, drawn from the overview of the ODIOverseas Development Institute (London) Annual Report 2008, sets out the ODIOverseas Development Institute (London) priorities and concerns over the past year, and its future agenda.
New issues crowd on to the development agenda. The need for international collaboration grows greater. The time available to respond grows shorter. Think food prices, or oil, or natural disasters in fragile state. A think tank that aspires to be influential on the international stage needs to work in new ways, on new topics, with new partners, and to a new timescale.
In planning our own future, we have identified three big challenges, which we call the three ‘Cs’: coverage, capacities and communication................. (see link in title for full article)