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Jonathan Tanner

Media & Public Affairs Officer

Jonathan worked as a senior researcher to an MP in the UK Parliament on successful backbench legislation and also national media campaigns. Since joining ODI he has helped to coordinate the All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development and is responsible for ODI's media coverage as well as producing audio interviews for social media with senior figures including Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and Sri Mulyani.

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Kenya election 2013: not such a rosy picture?

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 25 March 2013

In an outspoken interview following an ODI event looking at the prospects for governance in Kenya and Ghana, journalist Michela Wrong expressed her view that the Kenyan elections were deeply flawed saying:

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Tackling Africa's image problem

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 3 January 2013

'If we want to pursue the reality of Africa as just another place - with high rise offices and high street shops then we will need to find a more subtle rallying call.'

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ODI audio interviews from CAPE 2012

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 19 November 2012

In a series of audio interviews, Jonathan Tanner asks participants from CAPE 2012 - 'Old puzzles, new pieces: development cooperation in tomorrow’s world' - to reflect on some of the key issues explored during the conference.

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The measurement revolution

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 24 October 2012

'Progress may appear on the national balance sheet, but it rarely materialises as much- needed cash for cash-strapped pockets. So if we don’t just measure the money, what else should we measure?'

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Goals, means and good intentions: UK political conference analysis

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 11 October 2012

The autumn will bring with it a new contest in the House of Commons as Justine Greening and Ivan Lewis line up across the despatch box to discuss the development issues of the day. Over the last two weeks a sizeable chunk of the NGO community and one or two others, including myself, decamped to the provinces in order to hear the newest thinking from the latest pairing.

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