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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Pre-study on parliamentary development assistance

Projects - November 2011 to January 2013

Parliamentary development (PD) assistance has been a growing area of democracy support since the 1980s. Sida commissioned this Evaluation Pre-Study to review the state of knowledge on international approaches to PD and their effectiveness, identify lessons learnt and gaps in knowledge, and assess the need for a multi-stakeholder thematic evaluation.

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Japan's ODA within an African context

Publication - Research reports and studies - 26 October 2011

Leni Wild, Lisa Denney, Alina Rocha Menocal, and Matthew Geddes

This report provides an analysis of how Japan's development model and ODA approach is being applied to Africa and how this compares to the priorities and approaches of other donors.

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Research report: the political economy of policy-making in Indonesia

Publication - Research reports and studies - 23 September 2011

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

This Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and SMERU report explores the nature of policy-making in Indonesia.

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Politics into practice: a dialogue on performance strategies and action in international development

Publication - Research reports and studies - 8 July 2011

Leni Wild and Marta Foresti

This report summarises discussions from a policy dialogue event organised by ODI’s Politics and Governance Programme in December 2010, offering recommendations for how to put into practice more of what we know about the importance of politics in development.

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