GovEnable clinics in Islamabad, Kinshasa and Nairobi
During May 2023, Laure-Hélène, TPP Director, and Ben French, TPP Associate, delivered workshops in Islamabad, Kinshasa and Nairobi to introduce government officials and World Bank staff to a new way of designing and implementing public financial management reforms - based on participatory diagnostics, reform preparation and action planning.
Called GovEnable, this new approach, developed by the World Bank's Governance Practice, draws on the latest development and governance evidence which recommends a problem-driven and more iterative approach to external financing and technical assistance. It is very well aligned with global thinking on ‘thinking and working politically’ and the use of political economy analysis which The Policy Practice disseminates.
Participants appreciated the interactive style - and also learned new tools and techniques.
'Normally workshops make me dose off. But this one made me enjoy a lot while learning.’
'I loved how you made us go through each step by actually performing it and help us prepare an action plan.’
'I valued the use of post-its to express oneself, the equality in the use of speech and the sense of humour of the facilitators.'
'I leave enriched with new knowledge in my intellectual library: the links between problem analysis to the matrix of actions to implementing solutions. I hope to pass it on to others to analyse their problems of the state of reform.'
Political economy analysis for climate action training course running from 31 October 2023
The Policy Practice is delighted to announce a new short online course focussing on the Political Economy of Climate Action. This course explains how political economy analysis can be used to understand the challenge of action on climate change and to design more effective interventions. The course will consist of seven, 2-hour online sessions from 31 October to 27 November 2023. For more information and to register please click below
Why governments drag their feet on climate action - and what to do about it. New blog from TPP Director Neil McCulloch
In March 2023, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a Synthesis report of its huge sixth assessment report, pointing out that greenhouse gas emissions must fall dramatically – starting immediately – for us to have any chance of keeping the global temperature within 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2100. The response to this depressing reality from many advocating urgent action to tackle climate is that we must try harder. That failing to do so will result in catastrophe. This blog argues that this is the wrong approach. That the rallying cry to keep on pushing forward is unlikely to work unless we have a better understanding of the political barriers to doing so.
Q&A with Dr, Neil McCulloch - written by Aia Brnic (IISD) and Neil McCulloch
Neil was interviewed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) about the controversial fuel subsidy reforms that have just taken place in Nigeria.
This article first appeared on the IISD website - see link below: