Transforming Development' reflects both the upheaval in the development landscape, and the changes IDS is making to refresh its vision and as well as the changes happening and ways of working in turbulent times for the international development community. The 2014 report includes: Reflections on progress and the future by new Director, Melissa Leach and outgoing Chair, Richard Manning , Key achievements across IDS ,The work of PhD candidates at IDS. IDS has always been deeply committed to working in partnerships to deliver our vision - whether they be across disciplines, across sectors or across continents. Their current strategy already emphasises new alliances outside the development industry, co-constructing knowledge, and innovative influencing. But with an ever greater array of new actors becoming relevant to development, novel partnerships and hybrids emerging that challenge boundaries between public and private, state and NGO, and more than ever, resource flows conventionally associated with ‘aid ‘being dwarfed by others, it is time to become more ambitious and strategic.