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Innovation for Development For Government Healthcare Education and Nonprofit Organizations

26 October 2016
This presentation gives an overview of cloud computing, particularly how it can help users such as government agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations boost their efficiency. It also features case studies where Amazon's web services have helped improve the pace of…

Adaptation and Migration in Asias Drowning River Deltas

26 October 2016
The world's threatened deltas are concentrated in South and East Asia. Among the identified accelerators of relative sea-level rise in river deltas are climate change, urbanization, and aquaculture expansion. Asian Development Bank's intern Alex Chapman shares the current state of river deltas in…

Bulgaria Tax Reform

25 October 2016
As Bulgaria’s tax system deters foreign investors and citizen-taxpayers alike, the need for change is enormous. The Bulgarian government decided to unify and modernize its tax collection facilities by combining the revenue-collection function and the General Tax Directorate into a new, single tax…

Why Engage Stakeholders

25 October 2016
Explore the concept of effective multi-stakeholder engagement. While engagement is the key to any successful change intervention, the challenge is to aim for context and sector-specific approaches amidst the many examples that exist.

Three Wills Enhancing Governance Results in Projects

25 October 2016
Governance challenges surface in development programs worldwide, regardless of sector or country. Critical to the success of any reform is the combined energies and single-minded commitment of the state, institutions that provide the services, and the citizens—to pursue the public good.

Orissa India Public Enterprise Reform

25 October 2016
Financial and public enterprise challenges in Orissa, one of India’s poorer states, posed great concern at the start of the new millennium. A chaotic political machine is inherited by the newly-installed state official. Yet the new chief minister, together with some civil servants, championed…

Wenling City China Infrastructure Reform

25 October 2016
Like many other municipalities in the People’s Republic of China, heart to heart discussion meetings as a form of local consultation in Wenling City’s Zeguo township are, oftentimes, exclusively dominated. Local officials consider deliberative polling as a transparent, balanced, and representative…

Strategic Communication

25 October 2016
Communication for development programs that fail to focus on behavior change as its ultimate goal achieve sub-optimal results. Influencing knowledge and attitudes in ways that make adoption of new behaviors feasible is the new benchmark. In an age of information overload, communication needs to be…

Perception Mapping

25 October 2016
Explore the concept of perception mapping. Using water reform as a case example, three different perspectives on reform are comparatively discussed: government policymakers and reform champions, Citizen Action Forum and other civil society organization allies, and middle managers.

The Rules of the Game

25 October 2016
Reforms often get stuck because stakeholder interests and the rules of the game prevent collective action needed for reforms to move forward. This presentation examines how reformers can recognize the patterns that constrain collective action.