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After 11 years at ODI, the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) has moved to the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex.

With its strategic focus on reducing extreme inequities in ways that can foster more fulfilling lives, IDS is a very appropriate host for the network. It has a strong tradition of fostering participatory development, long-term multi-disciplinary research partnerships and civil society advocacy which makes it well placed to assist with CPAN’s further development.

IDS is located at the University of Sussex, and we're looking forward to the potential relationships with a wider circle of researchers and alumni networks working on poverty and inequality and related issues (climate change, conflict, politics, financial crises, migration).

At the same time, CPAN will continue to engage across the partnership and continue our bread and butter mixed methods poverty dynamics and policy analysis work at a national level, and the flagship Chronic Poverty Reports (including a report on Pandemic Poverty in partnership with the Covid Collective, making use of CPAN’s Covid-19 Poverty Monitoring Initiative). In addition, we will continue to carry out thematic research, such as recent publications on the education of children in poverty and on climate-smart agriculture. We will also continue our policy monitoring research, for example by updating the Poverty Eradication Policy Preparedness Index (PEPPI) 2015 baseline of policies in 30 countries to 2019 and the pandemic period and supporting advocacy efforts on poverty eradication.