Seminars

Better Public Spending on Cross-cutting Issues

The Mokoro seminar on 'Better Public Spending on Cross-cutting Issues' took place at Linacre College,…

October 20, 2025 Read More

The work and legacy of Robin Palmer in the land rights sector: How can we build on this today?

The Mokoro seminar, 'The work and legacy of Robin Palmer in the land rights sector:…

July 3, 2023 Read More

Climate Change Resilience in Action

The Mokoro seminar, ‘Climate Change Resilience in Action’ took place at Wolfson College, Oxford on…

June 21, 2022 Read More

Education in Emergencies: Resilience, Social Cohesion and Peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHr05bFSGg0&t=2s At Mokoro’s seminar, 'Education in Emergencies: Resilience, Social Cohesion and Peace', we explored education…

June 21, 2019 Read More

Working to Protect and Defend Community Land Rights in Africa

For this seminar, Mokoro welcomed Rachael Knight, who shared some of the experiences and insights…

May 1, 2019 Read More

The ‘Beyond Aid’ Agenda: lessons from private sector engagement in development.

The ‘Beyond Aid’ seminar was an opportunity for Mokoro to celebrate 35 years working in…

January 12, 2018 Read More

The story behind the numbers: ‘making’, analysing & using qualitative evidence

https://youtu.be/E_enfOcgjDg Mokoro was delighted to host a seminar on qualitative evidence gathering methods. Following our…

January 11, 2019 Read More

How can we collect better evidence for development?

Mokoro's seminar on evidence explored some of the challenges and opportunities for monitoring and evaluation in…

May 30, 2018 Read More

Women’s Land Tenure Security

This seminar on Mokoro’s long-term, multi-country and action-oriented strategic research project on Women’s Land Tenure…

September 1, 2017 Read More

Land Grabbing: a Mokoro-hosted film screening

Mokoro held a screening of 'Land Grabbing', directed by author and Romy awarded journalist Kurt Langbein,…

March 10, 2017 Read More

Land advocacy in Africa: past present and future

The seminar brought together speakers who have engaged seriously on land advocacy in Africa in…

March 10, 2017 Read More

Tracking rural communities since 1994 – evidence from EthiopiaWIDE

Over the past twenty years, notwithstanding the more tumultuous recent months, observers have witnessed what…

November 1, 2016 Read More

Approaches to measuring climate change resilience

Mokoro were pleased to partner with the Food Economy Group for a joint discussion on…

July 11, 2016 Read More

Impact of Women’s Political Leadership on Democracy & Development in Rwanda

Mokoro were pleased to welcome Professor Shirley Randell in April to lead a presentation and…

April 13, 2016 Read More

New Research on Women’s Land Rights

This seminar was a forum to discuss the findings of our speakers' recent extended fieldwork, about…

November 10, 2015 Read More

Women’s Economic Empowerment: approaches, strategies and alliances for success?

This seminar brought together academics as well as practitioners working on the theme of Women’s…

September 19, 2014 Read More

Nutrition, food security and livelihoods

For more than two years Mokoro has been leading a consortium carrying out evaluations for…

May 2, 2014 Read More

Aid for education after 2015

This seminar contributed to the debate regarding the post-2015 agenda and brought a fresh perspective…

January 24, 2014 Read More

Women’s land rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

On Saturday 15th June 2013 a select group gathered at Mokoro’s office in Oxford to…

June 15, 2013 Read More

Ethiopian rural communities: where are they heading?

Since 2009 a Mokoro team have been revisiting twenty rural Ethiopian villages that some of…

January 11, 2013 Read More

Complexity discussion

On October 10 2012, a group of Mokoro consultants and associates gathered for a discussion…

October 10, 2012 Read More

30 years of development: What have we learned? What have we achieved?

To help mark Mokoro’s 30th anniversary, this seminar looked at development and its progression over…

April 18, 2012 Read More

Seeing through Busan: gains and losses for effective aid

With the dust settling from the 4th global high level forum on aid effectiveness, development…

January 12, 2012 Read More

Land tenure, grabs, gender and the law

This seminar explored the extremely important and current topic of Land Grabbing. It focused on…

November 22, 2011 Read More

Pathways out of conflict and fragility

This seminar explored the pathways out of conflict and fragility. For an evidence-based debate, it…

July 1, 2011 Read More

Social Protection: lessons for the decade ahead

Governments in low and middle income countries are recognising what social protection can achieve. Whilst…

November 19, 2010 Read More

Monitoring and evaluating complex development – part two

This seminar focused on understanding the possible complementarities between variable-based and case-based evaluation approaches. Presentations…

April 21, 2010 Read More

Monitoring and evaluating complex development – part one

Over the past decade or so a number of shifts have occurred, leading to new…

October 15, 2009 Read More

Sector budget support in practice

This seminar presented the preliminary results from the 2009 Sector Budget Support in Practice (SBSiP)…

May 5, 2009 Read More

Fragile states

The agenda of fragility emerged during the 1990s, and grew rapidly in the new millennium…

January 7, 2009 Read More

Aid effectiveness: key issues for the Accra High Level Forum and beyond

This seminar looked at issues of aid effectiveness for and beyond the 2008 Accra High…

July 8, 2008 Read More

Social protection: a new policy area in developing countries?

While social protection was largely absent from the development agenda two decades ago, development policy-makers…

April 1, 2008 Read More

Lessons from PEFAs

The objectives of the seminar were to learn about the design and use of Public…

September 27, 2007 Read More

Mokoro and Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) seminar

The fundamental goal of the Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) Research Group at the University…

January 19, 2007 Read More