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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Clay and Schaeffer’s book Room for Manoeuvre describes the policy and policy making as ‘as a chaos of purposes and accidents’. During the workshop facilitated by RAPID we often describe policy making as complex, multifactorial and non linear. The complexity of policy processes described in these two definition has two consequences for the influencing potential
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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1) Limit your work-in-progress and 2) Visualise your work; these are the two simple rules that are suggested in a very enjoyable book I recently read by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry entitled Personal Kanban: Mapping Work / Navigating Life. When I first came across the book, I found the second part of the
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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