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Poverty eradication, the promotion of democracy and human rights, gender equity, environmental sustainability and the effects of globalization are overarching concerns in UNRISD's work.

These overarching concerns are reflected in research carried out under the programmes and areas listed in the left navigation bar.



Click on another decade from the timeline above to access past work.

Roll over a programme area on the left to reveal a summary of the area. Click on an area to view its description, and a list of its associated projects and publications.

Click on an ongoing project on the right to access that project directly.


Ongoing projects (listed alphabetically)
Ageing, Development and Social Protection
Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights
Business Responsibility for Sustainable Development
Civil Society Strategies and Movements for Rural Asset Redistribution and Improved Livelihoods
Commercialization of Health Care: Global and Local Dynamics and Policy Responses
Commercialization, Privatization and Universal Access to Water
Community Responses to HIV/AIDS
Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector
Evolving Agricultural Structures and Civil Society in Transitional Countries: The Case of Central Asia
Gender and Social Policy
Gender Justice, Development and Rights
Geneva 2000: The Next Step in Social Development
Global Civil Society Movements: Dynamics in International Campaigns and National Implementation
Globalization, Export-Oriented Employment for Women and Social Policy
Globalization, Inequality and Health Care
Grassroots Movements and Initiatives for Land Reform
HIV/AIDS and Development
Improving Research and Knowledge on Social Development in International Organizations
Information Technologies and Social Development
Macroeconomics and Social Policy
Neoliberalism and Institutional Reform in East Asia
Policy Report on Gender and Development: 10 Years after Beijing
Politics and Political Economy of HIV/AIDS
Public Sector Reform and Crisis-Ridden States
Racism and Public Policy
Rethinking Development Economics
Social Policy and Democratization
Social Policy in a Development Context
Social Policy in Late Industrializers: A Comparative Study of Latin America
Social Policy in Late Industrializers: Social Policy and Development Outcomes in the Middle East and North Africa

The need to strengthen civil society has become a truism within the development debate—something that can be stated without further analysis or discussion. But civil society is a complex of different forms of organization, developing within specific contexts.


The global debate on democratization and human rights can be sharpened by paying greater attention to specific problems of political and institutional reform at the local, national and international levels. This programme provides an opportunity to learn from recent experiences in countries, beset by economic crisis, where efforts are being made to create an enabling environment for democratic governance.


Identities give structure and meaning to life. They provide a basis both for conflict and for cohesion, and—despite attempts to paint them as eternal—they are constantly undergoing adaptation. This programme asks how an emphasis on certain identities affects patterns of exclusion and solidarity in a globalizing world.


Social Policy and Development is one of the main research areas at the Institute. UNRISD defines social policy as public policies and institutions that aim to protect citizens from social contingencies and poverty, and ultimately to enable them to strive for their own life goals.


The world is caught up in a rapidly accelerating process of scientific and technological change that can benefit the majority of humankind or, on the contrary, only benefit the few. This programme examines the politics and economics of efforts to ensure that new technologies are used in socially responsible ways.


UNRISD supplements the work carried out in the five Programme Areas with a number of activities that allow the Institute to respond to special requests for collaboration, or to take up new challenges to contribute to the development debate.