I posted this blog a week or so ago in which I wanted to summarise my takeaways from a great two days conference I attended recently in London: Evidence Works 2016
There are many ways for knowledge and research evidence to reach policy makers and inform policy decisions. One important channel is the analysis by policy analysts in government organizations. In January 2014, the Indonesian Parliament passed a landmark law to modernize the civil service on principles of merit and professionalism (Law No. 5 on Civil
There are different angles and dimensions to the Doing Development Differently debate. With Nicola Nixon, we are interested in the \’doing\’ of Doing Development Differently. We have written a post about one of those angles and dimensions: Partnerships Agreements between funders and programme implementation teams. ‘Partnership’ is a buzzword in international aid and development. But, arguably, it’s often overused and tokenistic. So
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I just wanted to thank you all for following this blog. I continue to work in Indonesia at the Knowledge Sector Initiative. I continue also to be the the ODI RAPID team member based full time in Jakarta. The highlight of the year for me has been the online course on PDIA set up by the team of the Building
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The Nulistik Forum has been established about a year ago and is moderated by the Tempo institute in Jakarta. Every two months the members of the Forum (policy researchers, representatives from media, the private sector and government) come together to discuss discussion issues related to journalism, policy research, and policy making. The aim of the Forum if for these discussions to contribute to strengthen the skills of journalists
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I did some more work on the blog I have written the other day. You can find the text published in two blog sites: The DDD Manifesto Community blog (here). Building State Capability blog at Harvard University (here) Here the first paragraph,: \’Michael Woolcock, the Lead Social Development Specialist at the World Bank, gave the keynote speech at the
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