The Institute for Development, Policy & Management is a research and postgraduate education institute in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester. Established in 1958, it is the UK's largest University-based International Development Studies department, offering a wide range of postgraduate degree programmes. In addition to maintaining the highest standards of research and teaching, it seeks to promote social and economic development in lower-income countries and for disadvantaged groups. The IPDM has an international reputation in providing research, consultancy, and policy analysis to governments, NGOs and international organisations, focusing on major issues of development policy and practice including poverty alleviation, development finance, sustainable livelihoods and resource and environmental management.

CPRC was established in 2000 with initial funding from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID).

It is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs which exists to focus attention on chronic poverty. 

CPRC expects its research and analysis to result in policy relevant findings which will be useful to all those working to combat poverty, including: people in community level organisations, government and official agencies, NGOs, political parties, other researchers, the media, trade unions and the private sector.

The Brooks World Poverty Institute is a multidisciplinary centre of global excellence researching poverty in all of its manifestations. 

Research activity is organised around five major themes that identified by Manchester-based researchers and external advisors:

Poverty Concepts and Poverty Knowledge;

Methodological Development;

Poverty Dynamics and Growth;

Social Policy, Social Protection and Public Economics; and 

Pro-Poor Institutions and Governance

Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph E Stiglitz was appointed by The University of Manchester to chair the Brooks World Poverty Institute in November 2005.

School of Oriental and African Studies

London School of Economics

University of Cambridge

University of Greenwich