| The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) re-examines its research agenda periodically, to ensure that projects are attuned to contemporary development trends and concerns, and that they form part of a coherent research strategy.
The last revision took place in 1999 and since 2004, UNRISD has been engaged in a consultative process with its research networks and Board to design a research agenda for the 2005–2009 quinquennium. Within the Institute’s broad remit to conduct research on social development, attention will focus, in particular, on social policy, poverty reduction and equity. An effort will be made to examine the reciprocal relationships between social, economic and political dimensions of development, and ways in which improvements in social institutions, social relations and social welfare affect not only human well-being, but also economic development and democracy.
Research will be organized under six programme areas: Social Policy and Development; Democracy, Governance and Well-Being; Markets, Business and Regulation; Civil Society and Social Movements; Identities, Conflict and Cohesion; and Gender and Development. Work in these areas will be supplemented by research commissioned to feed into special events and activities organized by the Institute, such as conferences or flagship reports.
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