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 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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