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John Young joined ODI in May 2001 after 5 years in
Indonesia managing the DFID Decentralised Livestock Services
in the Eastern Regions of Indonesia (DELIVERI) Project - an
action-research project to promote more decentralised and
client-oriented livestock services. Before that he was ITDG's
Country Director in Kenya, responsible for managing the group's
practical project and research work on a wide range of technologies
to ensure that lessons were effectively communicated to government
and non-government policy makers. Since joining ODI he has
been involved in projects on decentralisation and rural services,
information and information systems, strengthening southern
research capacity, and the research-policy interface. He is
Director of Programmes for the RAPID Group, and also manages
the Civil
Society Partnership Programme.
Experience:
Over 20 years experience based in Africa, Asia and the
UK, working on livestock services, government service reform,
sustainable livelihoods, community development, participatory
approaches, communications and information, research-policy
links, institutional development and capacity-building.
Main research interests:
Sustainable Livelihoods - in particular, rural service reform
and improved information and information systems to promote
sustainable livelihoods; Knowledge management - improved learning
and sharing of information among and between researchers,
practitioners and policy makers; Bridging research and policy
- promoting evidence-based policy making, and policy-aware
development research; and Strengthening southern research
capacity - capacity-building among southern research institutions.
Recent books and reports include:
- Bridging Research
and Policy in International Development: Evidence and the
Change Process. London: ITDG Publishing (2005).
- Partnerships
and Accountability: Current thinking and approaches among
agencies supporting Civil Society Organisations, (with
Monica Blagescu) ODI Working Paper 255, August 2005.
- Research, Policy and Practice: Why Developing Countries
are Different, in Bridging
Research and Policy in International Development, Journal
of International Development (JID) Special Issue 17(6),
(edited by Julius Court and Simon Maxwell), August 2005.
- Bridging Research
and Policy in International Development: An Analytical and
Practical Framework, (with Julius Court), RAPID Briefing
Paper 1, October 2004.
- 'Bridging Research and Policy in International Development:
Context, Evidence and Links', Julius Court and John Young
in Diane Stone and Simon Maxwell (eds) Global
Knowledge Networks and International Development, Routledge,
2004.
For recent and current activities in ODI and further
details see Curriculum Vitae:
Contact John Young
or RAPID programme
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