Innovation in development, one person at a time.
'There is growing realization that informality is a ‘defining’ feature of our world.’ [link] Fab piece on rethinking urban planning in Africa with a concrete example from Kenya @BeatriceHati & Alice Menya
Interesting overview of the state of the art when it comes to policy tools to implement missions [link] @IIPP_UCL
Socialbat.org, a research lab focusing on social cooperation and communication in vampire bats, incl. some great videos and social graphs!
How do parliament buildings give physical form to behaviours, rituals, identities and imaginaries? [link] Looks like a great segue to the book of parliaments @OEDialogue
Systems mapping: what works for policy design [link] Just caught up with the recording from this great @ippouk webinar with lots of interesting examples and resources
3 ways portfolio approaches can add value to development. Another great, pragmatic post by @StoumTina
Fantastic thread
"The price isn’t only policy irrelevance. The price is our ability to make sense of the world". Nodding profusely at pretty much every sentence in this @yuenyuenang interview. A must read for anyone working in #GlobalDev
Interesting paper looking at the fate of public sector innovations over 50 (!) years "The most important factor in fate was ideology, due to the dominant government ideology changing from the implementing to the next government"
"Cash shows the humanitarian system can change, and gives us a playbook for how to make this happen" Great piece by @sophietholstrup [my fav tip: "don’t pretend change is win-win"]
[Great article] With limited evidence on how these formal grievance systems work on the ground, and without sufficient power to act on complaints these grievance systems appear to be more ornamental
[Fantastic essay] Against scale@TheUniverse
