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Doing Development Differently in practice from the Philippines

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Jaime Faustino of The Asia Foundation in the Philippines features with two policy local activists in a 10 minutes video documentary produced by ODI\’s Politics and Governance programme. This very well made video documentary describes their development entrepreneurship approach and how they decided to do something about the fact that 12ml Filipino do not have a land title that proves that they own the land where they have built their homes. […]

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Doing Development Differently, 30 years ago

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I was sixteen when the excerpts I post below were published. For thirty-two years (and probably longer than that)  development practitioners, researchers, academics, experts, technocrats, civil servants, elected officials have tackled the uncertainty of development processes. The answer thirty-two years ago as well as today seems to be the same: embrace uncertainty, make the most out of it.

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\’ROMA: A guide to policy engagement and influence\’ is available in Bahasa Indonesia

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ROMA, the RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach, has been providing for several years ideas and suggestions to policy researchers for structuring a policy influence process which is based on the production, communication and uptake of research evidence. ROMA does not describe (or prescribe) an A to Z series of steps that will guarantee the policy influence of a policy research project. There are no

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Thank you all for this 2014

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Back in London my colleagues have just published a nice Storify about what we, at the Research and Policy in Development Programme (RAPID) at the Overseas Development Institute, have been doing, saying, and writing in 2014. A nice way to end the year looking back at the good work we did all together in various parts of the world. //storify.com/rapid_odi/rapid-2014/embed?header=false[View the story

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The way San Antonio plays basketball and what it means for teams working in development projects

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The San Antonio Spurs have overwhelmed the Miami Heat two games on the row now. These are the NBA finals but it looks more like regular season games between a top and a mid ranking teams. The first half of Game 3 is unheard of. At one point deep into the second quarter San Antonio

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