How are funders supporting development organisations to be more effective?
In my last post, I described what an organisation is and how it might be made more effective, drawing on three schools of thought. In this post, I describe what funders...
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Governance and service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: Eight reflections from a recent landscape scan
Several actors within the global development sector have assumed that better governed states would lead to improved service delivery and better social development...
10 charts on transparency, participation and accountability funding in 2019
Is funding for transparency, participation and accountability (TPA) decreasing? Who is funding TPA now? What specific issues and countries are they focusing on? I’ve...
Challenges for think tanks in the era of the ‘new normal’
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to face problems that we did not know existed, and to adapt to the implications of a new reality. In the professional space, even...
Think tank funding in developing countries: status and outlook
This report focuses on key questions on think tank funders, their rationales for funding think tanks, the trajectory of funding, and issues suggested for further...
COVID-19 and research systems: An urgent need for fresh thinking in the Global South
It’s spring 2020 in Myanmar and the global pandemic has begun. The international organisations that 'dominate' the Mynamese research policy field are operating at...
Scaling up impact – the key challenge for the development community
‘Scaling up impact’ is the new watchword in development. Cynics might be inclined to dismiss it as the newest fad in the merry-go-round of fads in development...
AidData’s journey to build more equitable post-pandemic partnerships part four: The Checklist
In the final article of this four-part series on AidData’s experience and learnings from forming partnerships with two Africa-based organisations, we share a rough...
AidData’s journey to build more equitable post-pandemic partnerships part three: The challenges
In part three of this four-part series, we share some of our key findings and challenges surrounding North–South partnerships, informed by our own journey to build more...
AidData’s journey to build more equitable post-pandemic partnerships part one: The imperative
The global pandemic has brought inequalities in, and de-colonisation of, foreign aid to the front and centre. Researchers from the UK-based think tank ODI called the...
AidData’s journey to build more equitable post-pandemic partnerships part two: The search
In part two of this four-part series, we describe the initial steps we (a US-based international development research lab) have taken to identify new working partners in...
Why COVID-19 and political instability could be an opportunity for think tank funding in Italy
When the 2008 economic-financial crisis hit, few think tank professionals in Europe were worried, convinced that their well-established funding model would survive the...
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