Harvard Center for International Development

Incredible progress has been made throughout the world in recent years. However, globalization has failed to deliver on its promises. As problems like unequal access to education and healthcare, environmental degradation, and stretched finances persist, we must continue building on decades of transformative development work.

The Center for International Development (CID) is a university-wide center based at the Harvard Kennedy School that seeks to solve these pressing development problems—and many more.

At CID, we believe leveraging global talent is the key to enabling development for all. We teach to build capacity, conduct research that guides development policy, and convene talent to advance ideas for a thriving world. Addressing today’s challenges to international development also requires bridging academic expertise with practitioner experience. Through collaborative, in-country partnerships, CID’s research programs, faculty, and students deploy an analytical framework and context-dependent approaches to tackle development problems from all angles, in every region of the globe.

Harvard Center for International Development’s tracks

• The opportunity of climate philanthropy in India by Harvard Center for International Development
• Loss & damage obligations, non-political climate policies, and compelling climate communication by Harvard Center for International Development
• Ensuring a just energy transition: minimizing resource extraction for environmental justice by Harvard Center for International Development
• Carbon markets, climate tech, and the pathway to carbon net-zero by Harvard Center for International Development
• Climate policy and diplomacy in the U.S. and China by Harvard Center for International Development
• Decarbonizing the built environment: roadblocks and pathways for the developing world by Harvard Center for International Development
• Climate vulnerabilities and opportunities for India’s Informal women workers by Harvard Center for International Development
• Using data to build climate-resilient cities by Harvard Center for International Development
• Climate change modeling: applications and lessons for action by Harvard Center for International Development
• Systems change for climate adaptation? It starts with leadership and creative policymaking by Harvard Center for International Development