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Five-Year Strategy: Harnessing The Power of Evidence and Ideas
Five-Year Strategy: Harnessing The Power of Evidence and Ideas
Evidence.
Ideas.
Change.
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Harnessing the power of evidence and ideas
Evidence.
Ideas.
Change.
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@odi.development Our vision is a sustainable and peaceful world in which every person thrives.
See our work We harness the power of evidence and ideas through research and partnership to
odi.org confront challenges, develop solutions and create change.
Our values
GENERATE
MEASURE
IDEAS
and tools to understanding these complex and
IMPACT
interconnected problems. We work with a wide IMPACT
range of partners to collect robust evidence, find
and test creative solutions, and engage with those
who have the power to change policy, practice
and approach.
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Evidence. Ideas. Change.
Guiding principles Our work
Our independence is At a time when the world Our work addresses four key global challenges, and explores the tools and approaches
the cornerstone of our is faced with complex needed to enable progress and address risks. Our multidisciplinary approach combines
credibility. It allows us to dilemmas, innovation will research, advisory work, convening and communications.
develop fresh ideas, challenge be essential to finding,
orthodoxies and take the testing and scaling bold
risks we need to succeed. ideas and solutions. We will
be increasingly innovative
in the ways in which we
bring people together,
communicate ideas and
EN
We are a global organisation, increase our influence.
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with staff, partners and
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ODI fellows in 50 countries
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around the world. The
changes we seek require local POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
knowledge, new relationships ODI exists to have real
and perspectives, and impact for those who need
credibility with decision- it most. This is at the centre
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ECONOMIES AND WORK
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makers at both the national of our thinking about what
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and international levels. to do, where to go and how
We will therefore strive to we measure our success.
broaden where we work in SUSTAINABILITY
the world, as well deepen and
strengthen our links with
who we work with, especially CONFLICT AND FRAGILITY
at country level.