David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Manchester.  He has specialist interests in rural development, poverty reduction policies, public sector reform, the role of NGOs in development and peacebuilding, microfinance for the poor and environmental management.  He has research and professional experience in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Uganda, and provides advisory services to DfID, EU, ILO, World Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, ActionAid, Save the Children Fund and many other development agencies.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

PhD James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, 1984

“Land Settlement Schemes and Rural Development”

 BA/MA (Hons 2:1) Economic Geography, University of Cambridge, 1974

POSITIONS HELD

1985 - present   Professor of Development Studies (1995), Director of Institute (1992-97),

Reader (1992-95), Senior Lecturer (1990-91) and Lecturer (1985-89) Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester

1979 - 1984 Senior Lecturer (1983-84) and Lecturer (1979-82) in Public Administration and Rural Development , Administrative Staff College, Papua New Guinea

1975 - 1977 Volunteer Teacher of Social Science and Agriculture, Lumi High School, West Sepik, Papua New Guinea

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

African Enclosures: the Social Dynamics of Land and Water, James Currey, 2000 (with P. Woodhouseand H. Bernstein)

African Wildlife and African Livelihoods: The Promise and Performance of Community-based Conservation, James Currey, 2000 (with M. Murphree)

‘Protecting and Strengthening Social Capital in Order to Produce Desirable Development Outcomes’, SD SCOPE Paper No.4, Social Development Department, DfID, 2000

‘Impact Assessment Methodologies for Microfinance: Theory, Experience and Better Practice’, World Development 28(1), 79-98, 2000

‘Financial Services for the Poor and Poorest: Deepening Understanding to Improve Provision’, Finance and Development Working Papers No.9, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, 1999  (with I. Matin and S. Rutherford)

‘NGOs in a Global Future: Marrying Local Delivery to Worldwide Leverage’, Public Administration and Development 19, 117-136, 1999 (with M. Edwards and T. Wallace)

‘From Wars to Complex Political Emergencies: Understanding Conflict and Peacebuilding in the New World Disorder’, Third World Quarterly 20(1), 13-26, 1999 (with J. Goodhand)

‘Communities, Wildlife and the ‘New Conservation’ in Africa’, Policy Arena, Journal of International Development 11, 277-285, 1999 (with M. Murphree)

Beyond the New Public Management: Changing Ideas and Practices in Governance, Edward Elgar, 1998 (with M. Minogue and C. Polidano)

‘Microenterprise Finance: Is There a Conflict Between Growth and Poverty Alleviation?’, World Development 26(5), 783-790, 1998 (with P. Mosley)

Governance, Administration and Development: Making the State Work, MacMillan, 1997 (with M.M. Turner)

NGOs, States and Donors: Too Close for Comfort?, MacMillan, 1997 (with M. Edwards)

NGO Performance and Accountability: Beyond the Magic Bullet, Earthscan and Kumarian Press, 1996 (with M. Edwards)

Practical Mechanisms for Poverty Reduction, a report to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, London, Commonwealth Secretariat, 1996

Finance Against Poverty (2 volumes), Routledge, 1996 (with P. Mosley)

RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS AND RELEVANT CONSULTANCY

Finance and Development - analysing the effectiveness of microfinance for poverty reduction (ESCOR, DfID, 1999-2001)

Community Conservation in Africa - an examination of the poverty reduction and conservation achievements of state - civil society partnerships in natural resource management (ESRC, 1996-1999)

The Role of NGOs in Peacebuilding in Complex Political Emergencies (ESCOR, DfID, 1997-2000)

Convenor of a workshop for RNR research programme directors to assist them to redesign these programmes so that they are pro-poor, November 1999 (Food and Fishes, Trees and Cows: the Role of RNR Research Programmes in poverty eradication)

Evaluation of DfID Support for Poverty Reduction 1987-1997 (DfID 1997-1999) Team member

Central-Local Relations and Service Delivery to the Poor in Asia (AusAid, 1997-1999)

Team Leader, Mid-term Review of Proshika’s Phase V poverty reduction programme, 1997-98. Assessment of the poverty reduction impacts of Proshika’s social development, economic development and advocacy programmes and recommendations

Capacity-building of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee’s (BRAC’s) Research and Evaluation Department, Bangladesh (DfID and British Council, 1994-1996)

Team leader advising the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth on the Secretariat initiative for poverty reduction (1996)

OTHER

ESCOR Committee Member (and Adviser on the Research Programme on Poverty Analysis)

Extensive personal contacts with civil society organisations in Asia and Africa

Director of short course on ‘Research and Advocacy Skills for NGOs’ (1997 to date)

Adviser to Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) on poverty and microfinance

Member of DSA Council 1985-1991 and 1993-1998

Co-Managing Editor of Journal of International Development (1995-1999)

Reviewer of research project proposals and final reports for ESCOR, ESRC, Leverhulme and Nuffield

External adviser to the University of London and Open University on postgraduate distance learning degrees on development management and public policy

Interviews for BBC Radio 4 and World Service on microfinance, poverty, development in South Asia, conservation and development in Africa, Papua New Guinea and other topics