ODI is an independent non-governmental centre for development research and a forum for discussion of the problems facing developing countries. The research programme is oriented towards improving policies and their implementation both within developing countries and at the British and international level.
Research programmes include: four specialist agricultural networks (on Agricultural Research and Extension, Water Resources, Pastoral Development and Rural Development Forestry); The Humanitarian Practice Network, HPN, (formerly the Relief and Rehabilitation Network) see separate entry; aid policy; trade policy; structural adjustment; conditionality; NGOs; UK Parliament research support and advice to Parliamentary Select Committees, MPs and Peers.
ODI also manages the ODI Fellowship Scheme for young post-graduate economists.