Last week I was in Phnom Penh and had a nice chat with Kurt Bredenberg, an expert of education policy in Cambodia and a long time resident in the country. While talking about the school cluster policy the conversation touched upon the Priority Action Program, or PAP. PAP started as a pilot in ten provinces […]
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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
Should policy makers be intellectuals? This is what Prof. Gary Gutting asks in an interesting article he wrote for the International Herald Tribune. His point of departure is that in his Republic, the Greek philosopher Plato \’put forward the idea of a state ruled by intellectuals who combined comprehensive theoretical knowledge with the practical capacity
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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