L-MAVC Policy Brief – Lessons for OGP, donors, and practitioners

December 6, 2017 Michael Moses, Director of Programs and Learning – Global Integrity and Sue Soal, independent consultant An increasingly compelling body of evidence suggests that governance reform efforts are most likely to be successful when: Local stakeholders are at the forefront of defining governance challenges, developing and implementing solutions, and pursuing sustainable change; and Those…

Learning and Power: Or, whose learning and adaptation counts?

Alan Hudson, Executive Director December 5, 2017 Learning and adaptation are high on the governance and development agenda (see for instance the World Bank’s World Development Reports for 2017 and this video for the 2018 Report). Our strategy at Global Integrity is based around the hypothesis that learning-centered and adaptive approaches can play an important role in…

Listening, Learning and Open Governance: Our Annual Report for 2016

Alan Hudson, Executive Director – April 6, 2017 The last 12 months have been an exciting time at Global Integrity. We’ve upped the tempo in terms of implementing our strategy, moving wholeheartedly from making the case for a learning-centered approach to open governance, to putting adaptive learning into practice across everything we do. At project level,…

Power to the People – Participatory Tracking, and Learning to Navigate Complexity

Michael Moses, Director of Advocacy and Programs – March 13, 2017 Current events are challenging prevailing assumptions about the way democratic institutions function. The President of the United States decries the free press as an “enemy of the people.” Political campaigns are run, and won, on false statistics. Elected governments wage war on their citizens.…

Learning to Make All Voices Count: pursuing openness through iterative adaptation

Michael Moses, Director of Advocacy and Programs and Sue Soal, Independent facilitation Consultant March 7, 2017 This blog also appears here at Making All Voices Count Recent events are sowing doubts about the longevity of the open government movement. Elected leaders all over the world — from Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines to Jacob Zuma in…