Egypt's transition: the democratic tests
'The key challenge for the emerging Egypt is to establish a regime that is democratic in practice as well as in name.'
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Pre-study on parliamentary development assistance
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. -
Putting politics into practice? Political economy analysis and the practice of development
This event, co-hosted by ODI and DAI, builds on a dialogue that ODI convened in December 2010 on how development actors might go about incorporating political insights more seriously into their work. The event will also launch a special issue of DAI’s journal Developing Alternatives on political economy analysis.
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Source: FlickrBrazil’s rise in international development: unlocking the potential
This APGOOD event will discuss Brazil’s emergence in international development against the backdrop of the world’s changing aid architecture and Brazil’s maturing democracy and explore the future prospects for Brazil’s cooperation agenda and its position in global affairs.
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Making life easier for good leaders
Tony Blair put in a great performance at the ODI/AGI event on Wednesday in the run-up to the Busan forum on aid effectiveness. The big message I took away was clearly informed by his own experience of government: ‘without a strong centre, nothing gets done’. AGI is all about building up that ‘strong centre’, and his ideas about how aid can be part of that process sparked off a lot of good questions from the floor and much discussion afterwards. -
On the importance of getting things done
Yesterday ODI and the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) hosted a meeting with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair on the role of visionary African leaders in transforming government and achieving development. We could not have hoped for a better finale to ODI’s meeting series on Busan. -
The G20 summit must look beyond the west and think of the rest
The western economic crisis is a game-changer, both for the G20 leaders who will meet in Cannes and for poorer countries argues Jonathan Glennie in The Guardian Poverty Matters blog. -
Alison Evans and Tony Blair
Alison Evans speaking with Tony Blair at an event jointly hosted by the Overseas Development Institute and Africa Governance Initiative, 'Rethinking leadership for development'.
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Source: Africa Governance InitiativeRethinking leadership for development - with Tony Blair
At this event, Tony Blair - patron of the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) - delivered a speech on leadership and international development. Drawing on his time as Prime Minister and more recently, the work of the Africa Governance Initiative, Tony Blair gave his reflections on the visionary African leaders who are tackling poverty by transforming government, and what the international community needs to do differently to support them.
ODI Director Alison Evans led a discussion with Tony Blair and a high level audience from the development community on the best way to support country ownership, effective leadership and ensure aid effectiveness. This event provided an important contribution to the forthcoming High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea.
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The new Danish coalition government’s changed approach to development
After Denmark’s General Election on 15 September 2011 a period of 17 days of intense and hopefully thorough negotiations followed between three opposition parties, which eventually led to a centre-left minority coalition on the 3 October based on a 76-page Government Programme. This has brought 10 years of right-wing coalition government to an end, and has provided an opportunity to review and revise Denmark’s foreign policy. -
Why electoral systems matter: an analysis of their incentives and effects on key areas of governance
This paper provides an overview of electoral systems and their impact on governance, public policy outcomes, and the incentives of political actors.