Leni Wild

Research Fellow, Politics and Governance

Leni Wild has a particular interest in governance and service delivery; aid, accountability and democracy promotion; and support to fragile states and post-conflict countries. This is underpinned by strong skills in political economy analysis and knowledge of aid effectiveness. She has conducted fieldwork in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, South Sudan) and parts of Asia (China, Nepal).

She was previously a Research Fellow in the international team at the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) and Research Officer at Education Action, an NGO working in post-conflict countries, where she managed programmes in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Gaza.

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The political economy of community scorecards

Publication - Research reports and studies - 10 January 2012

Leni Wild and Daniel Harris

This report details research investigating how community scorecards have worked in Malawi and what some of the wider lessons might be.

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More than just ‘demand’: Malawi’s public-service community scorecard

Publication - Briefing papers - 10 January 2012

ODI Project Briefings 69

Leni Wild and Daniel Harris

This Project Briefing seeks to contribute to evidence regarding community-based monitoring instruments, such as scorecards, through political economy analysis of a community scorecard initiative in Malawi.

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Preparing minds for leading large scale coalition campaigning with the UK public

Projects - January 2012 to April 2012

There is now shared recognition of the need to shift dominant public understandings of global poverty and social justice. However this has not been explicitly tried before. It will require some different analysis and practice, plus a willingness to explore ideas that may be challenging and new. This project will provide a shared awareness needed to re-define dominant public understandings of global poverty and social justice.

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The political economy of policy-making in Indonesia: opportunities for improving the demand for and use of knowledge

Publication - Discussion papers - 21 December 2011

ODI Working Papers 340

Ajoy Datta, Harry Jones, Vita Febriany, Daniel Harris, Rika Kumala Dewi, Leni Wild and John Young

This Working Paper describe rules that govern policy-making processes in Indonesia and assesses factors that determine the use of knowledge in policy-making processes.

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