Vietnam is one of 60 countries where UNDP has established Accelerator Labs. The aim is to instil innovation principles and approaches into the work of the projects that UNDP implements and into the way UNDP works. At the end of January, I went to Helsinki to participate in a two-day workshop on sensemaking and innovation […]
Knowledge and power in South East Asia East Asia Forum Arnaldo Pellini, Ajoy Datta and harry Jones of RAPID discuss their findings on the use of knowledge in policy-making in Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Read more
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Download the report at the World Bank website: The Vietnam Development Reports (VDR) is a series of reports, which have been published by the World Bank resident mission since 2002, and focus on key development issues for Vietnam. The VDRs aim at tapping into existing knowledge, achieving an \’upstream harmonization\’ so that donors can engage with
Download to the Backgrund Note at ODI: As development processes become ever more complex, there is a growing demand for knowledge products that provide the necessary information to implement evidence-based policy change. However, the practice of monitoring the impact of knowledge products, often produced by international donors, is relatively new. This Background Note describes a case study of one attempt to
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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This picture I took in Hue made it to the front page of Vietnam Briefing: http://vietnam-briefing.com/
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Five workers in blue uniform are fixing the gate of the Reunification Palace here in Hi Chi Minh City. The gate looks in need of some repair. Thinking about it, these workers may look quite similar to the ones who fixed this gate about 35 years ago. It was the 30th of April 1975 when
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I have attended an interesting seminar about the Chinese experience in the transition to market economy with socialist characteristics. The aim of the seminar was to help Vietnamese scholars and researchers, who usually claim to be 10 years behind China in terms of social and economic development, to reflect on the challenges that the transition