Katy Harris

Communications Officer - Development Progress, Development Progress

Katy Harris is ODI's Communications Officer for Development Progress, a 4-year research project which aims to better understand, measure and communicate what has worked in development and why. She brings with her experience in communications, political advocacy, project management, and audience development.

Outputs

Animations: my step-by-step guide

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 4 July 2013

'It is still far too early to judge the success of this animation, and whether we can claim victory in appealing to a particular type of audience whilst not limiting our ability to appear credible to another. But the response from teams across ODI and beyond has been really encouraging. I have a hunch this won’t be the last animation you’ll see from us.'

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IF only: a wish-list for development campaigns

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 12 June 2013

'Most in the development community agreed there was both a moral and practical imperative to act on the findings: a quarter million marched in 2005, but engagement rates had been in decline ever since...'

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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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