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Shaping policy for development

An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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Susan Nicolai
Susan Nicolai

Susan Nicolai

Head of Project, Development Progress
Susan Nicolai is Head of ODI's Development Progress, a project which aims to better understand what works in development and why. As a flagship, and drawing on expertise across the institute, this research features a series of case studies exploring how countries have advanced in specific areas such as health, education, environment, political voice, employment, material wellbeing, social cohesion and security. Further analysis takes this and other evidence to delve more deeply into questions around measurement, political economy and financing of development. Susan has previously worked with the UN SRSG on Children and Armed Conflict, Save the Children and UNESCO IIEP. Her own policy work and research has focused on basic services – particularly education – as a foundation of development and in relation to peace and security in crisis affected countries.
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Susan Nicolai

The Millennium Development Goals: one last push

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 September 2013
'Over the coming weeks, during and after the UN General Assembly discussions, development experts from around the globe will use our site to add their voices to the debate, providing blogs that aim to answer one key question: what do you see as the single most important thing needed to accelerate progress toward the MDGs?'
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Susan Nicolai

Education goals: third time’s the charm?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 30 April 2013
'As the world’s third set of education goals emerges for post-2015, education actors would do well to move quickly from the ‘what’ onto broader elements of ‘how’ any new goals can be achieved.'
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Susan Nicolai

Human Development Report: a glass half full

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 14 March 2013
'Today’s report is another reminder that the world isn’t changing – it has already changed, and in many places for the better... more than 40 developing countries have outpaced expected gains in human development in recent decades.'
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Using case studies to untangle complexity and learn from progress

Publication - Research reports and studies - 11 October 2012
Jakob Engel and Susan Nicolai
This Project Note examines what case studies can and cannot tell us about why improvements in well-being happen. It lays out methodological considerations for the use of case studies, including how they have been used by other development policy research projects, and how this has informed case study research in Development Progress.
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Lifting women out of poverty
Lifting women out of poverty

Community members in a local slum participate in discussions after watching video documentaries screened by the Self Employed Women's Association of India. (Gujarat, India, 2010)
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Development Progress - exploring what works and why

Projects - July 2011 to July 2015
ODI's Development Progress aims to measure, understand and communicate where and how progress in development has happened. What are the latest methods we deploy to measure progress and why do they matter? What are the social, economic and political contexts that have facilitated and enabled progress in different countries? How do domestic and foreign resources contribute to financing progress? Building on phase one of this research - Development Progress: a library of stories - this four-year project explores these and other questions, with an aim to provide evidence for what’s worked and why over the past two decades.
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