Election day in Indonesia. 187 million Indonesian can vote today for 19.000 seats in local parliaments and 560 seats in the national parliament (or DPR). 22 million of the voters will vote for the first time. The election are particularly important because the also determine which party will be entitled to present a presidential candidate […]
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Just published with my colleagues Endah Purnawati and Maesy Angelina a couple of Stories of Change on the use of knowledge and research evidence in policy decision-making. Pls follow the links. Working politically. A story of change on the contribution of research-evidence on the new Village Law in Indonesia On December 18th 2013, the Indonesian House
Typhoon Hayian was the 25th typhoon that hit the Philippines this year. I lived in the city of Dumaguete in the Philippines for four years and left last May. My family is still there and we were talking on Skype about the typhoon that was approaching the Filipino coast. Dumaguete lies just a couple of
Here is what the evidence says about Italy. The Annual Report 2013 published by the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Italian National Institute of Statistics) presents the evidence from 2012: Italy has the highest level in Europe of young people who are neither in education nor employment: 23.9 percent. The number of people living in families
The Broker online just published a blog I have written to reflect, from the point of view of the influence that evidence can have on policy decisions, on the the debate in the British parliament about the involvement of British troops in airstrikes against Syria. Here is the link to the blog: The limits of evidence
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In this opinion piece published by Research to Action I describe the process of conducting a political economy study commissioned by the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR) and conducted in October – November 2012. My aim is to describe how the research process unfolded and why. The audience I have in mind are programme advisors, programme and project
Knowledge and power in South East Asia East Asia Forum Arnaldo Pellini, Ajoy Datta and harry Jones of RAPID discuss their findings on the use of knowledge in policy-making in Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Read more
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The Philippines is the third most disaster-prone country in the world: so how is the government using knowledge and evidence to ensure that the country has the best possible policy and practice to reduce the effect of natural disasters on people\’s lives. This knowledge context study applies political economy analysis and the knowledge, policy and