I just published this book written in collaboration with Cambodian colleagues at the Learning Institute in Phnom Penh. Here is the title and abstract. Engaging for the Environment. The Contribution of Social Capital to Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Cambodia Development is not a straight input-output-outcome-impact path, but is more random than that. In this […]
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Datta, A., Shaxson, L., Pellini, A. Capacity, complexity and consulting: lessons from managing capacity development projects Working Paper 344, March 2012, London: Overseas Development Institute This paper reflects on some of the Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) Programme\’s capacity development work in recent years and draw implications for future practice for both consultants and
This video has been watched 75.000.000 times on YouTube: . It is about the campaign to bring to justice the leader of the LRA army in central Africa: Joseph Kony. The video and campaign have started a huge flow of discussion and debate around the questions as to whether this is good or bad advocacy. Sarah website Bailay on a on ODI makes
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Technically sound and politically achievable? A taxonomy of knowledge types and their influence on governance in three South-East Asian countries ODI Background Notes, February 2012 Arnaldo Pellini, Maria Dolores Alicias, Nguyen Thi Thu Hang and Palmira Permata Bachtiar This Background Note classifies different types of knowledge that aim to influence policy, which is then used
Interesting article in SciDev.Net: Support Local Governance to get Research into Policy To see the research they fund in action, donors should work with good local governance, not informal networks, writes Justin O. Parkhurst. Here >
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The book by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama, Innovative Trends in Public Governance in Asia, has just been published by IOS Press. I have written, with three colleagues from Evidence Based Policy in Development Network (ebpdn) from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, one of the chapters (See book website) Governance Reforms in Three Southeast Asian
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The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach and project management for policy change Article – ODI Opinions 153, August 2011 Authors: Arnaldo Pellini Ramalingam et al. (2008), describe development plans, strategies and goal setting as ‘attempts to picture how things work in that country and provide an illusion of control’. The reality, however, is that development is not