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A Knowledge Sector for the Social and Economic Development in Cambodia. In Conversation with The Asia Foundation’s Heang Sophea

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Cambodia is rapidly progressing towards its goal of becoming an upper-middle-income country by 2030. The Royal Government of Cambodia has identified four main strategic policy areas on which to focus its public policies and achieve this goal: human resource development; economic diversification; private sector development and employment; and sustainable development. The policy decisions in these […]

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Education in a pandemic: five messages that Australia’s aid program could consider now – Governance and Development Soapbox

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After much debate in the media about whether it is safe for the community, teachers and children themselves to continue going to school,[1] the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria in Australia are going ahead with student-free schooling. Whilst the symptoms and deaths of children from COVID-19 have been lower in comparison to other ages groups

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Sensemaking and portfolios – two important concepts when facing wicked and complex problems

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In 2013, Richard Hummelbrunner and Harry Jones asked: “How can policy makers, managers and practitioners best plan in the face of complexity?” Seven years later the search for answers to that question continues through different initiatives and programmes. For example, the Doing Development Differently Manifesto was published at the end of 2014. Matt Andrews and

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Podcast – Bridging education research with policy and practice. In conversation with Prof. Elina Lehtomäki of the University of Oulu

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Every year I travel a couple of times north to the city of Oulu to give a class on development theories to the master students at the Faculty of Education at the University. The master course is part of the work of the interdisciplinary research group called Education, Diversity, Globalisation and Ethics. The group examines

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SearchFrames for Adaptive Work (More Logical than Logframes) – Building State Capability | Blog

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A great blog by Matt Andrews that summarises one of the key tools of Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) ‘Although the benefits of experimental iteration in a PDIA process seem very apparent to most people we work with, we often hear that many development organizations make it d… Source: SearchFrames for Adaptive Work (More Logical

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Federalism and the demand for evidence in Nepal: in conversation with Bishnu Adhikari

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In September 2015, Nepal promulgated a new Constitution mandating the country’s transition from a centralised unitary state to a federal state. The goal was to bring democracy to the doorstep of citizens and assign more power and responsibility to local governments. Four years on, how is the reform progressing and what role does knowledge play

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The 4IR Is Here. Do We Need to Design Development Initiatives Differently?

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I have written this blog post with Vanessa Weyrauch. This article first appeared in Helvetas Mosaic, a quarterly publication exploring new trends and fresh ideas of international development. Subscribe to receive more articles like this from Helvetas Mosaic. It is easy to get carried away with the promises of technology when we read about the Fourth Industrial

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A question about policy experiments and adaptive development

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I have a question about policy experiments and adaptive development that came to me after reading this article by George Monbiot in the Guardian: We won’t save the Earth with a better kind of disposable coffee cup. He writes about Starbucks and Costa and that they have been thinking about replacing their plastic coffee cups with

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