Conference on think tanks in sub-Saharan Africa
This conference explored whether or not supporting African think tanks generates a tangible effect on decision making and policy processes.
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Ensuring the sustainability of governance programmes and their impact over time
Development actors have long raised concerns that the impact of demand-side governance projects cannot be sustained. Drawing from WaterAid’s experiences in India and Uganda this event will explore what kinds of approaches different Governance and Transparency Fund projects have sought to develop and implement in order both to ensure the sustainability of their interventions, and to help partner organisations become self-sustaining over the long term? What efforts have been most effective and why, and what are the challenges that still lie ahead?
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Worker in factory, India
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Source: World BankCall launch: DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme
A special lunchtime seminar to launch the Second Call for research for a new programme on economic growth in low income countries
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Improving social assistance policymaking processes in Indonesia
This workshop served to present and validate preliminary findings from research which reviewed policy-making processes and the role of knowledge in AusAID Indonesia's social protection and knowledge sector programme.
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The Dhaka Colloquium on Systematic Reviews in International Development
The Dhaka Colloquium on Systematic Reviews in International Development brings together leading researchers in the field of systematic reviews and policymakers from Asia and beyond to address issues of comprehensive systemic reviews in international development. Maren Duvendack will lead a session on "Assessing 'what works' in International Development: meta-analysis for sophisticated dummies."
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KfW financial sector development symposium
"Microfinance 3.0 - Reconciling Sustainability with Social Outreach and Responsible Delivery" is the topic of this year's Financial Sector Symposium. Maren Duvendack will present on 'Knowing About the Success of the Success Story – the Impact we (hope to) get'.
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The politics of poverty research: learning from the practice of policy dialogue
This international symposium looks at the politics of policy-oriented poverty research and pro-poor policymaking. ODI Digital Manager Nick Scott will be speaking on digital strategy and Fletcher Tembo a Research Fellow in the Research and Policy in Development Programme will be attending.
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Evaluation in complex ecologies: 26th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association
The annual American Evaluation Association focused this year on evaluation and complexity. ODI's Simon Hearn presented on Outcome Mapping in complex scenarios.
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World Bank annual meeting Japan: CSO panel discussion achieving better health outcomes through investments in social accountability
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the World Bank and the IMF will take place in Tokyo. The Civil Society Organisation Forum will host this event on social accountability and health outcomes.
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Source: FlickrThe role of media in improving transparency and accountability: towards a consistent and compelling evidence base
This event will provide an overview of the successes and challenges encountered in supporting the media in Angola, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania to improve transparency, accountability and participation in governance. The event is part of the Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF) meeting series ‘Demanding accountability from the bottom up: examining what works, what does not work, and why’.
RSVP is essential, please contact Laura Woulfe on laura.woulfe@bbc.co.uk