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…

Learning to Make All Voices Count: Localizing the Open Government Partnership

November 22, 2017 Michael Moses, Director of Advocacy and Programs An increasingly compelling body of evidence suggests that governance reform is inherently political and complex (see, for example, Halloran 2014;  Menocal 2013; Levy 2011; and the 2017 World Development Report). There are no one-size-fits-all solutions to governance challenges, no blueprints for reform that can be…

Learning to Make the Political Personal, and Other Lessons from Manila

Michael Moses, Director of Programs at Global Integrity and Sue Soal, Social and Organizational Process Consultant July 5, 2017 It was well into our second hour in traffic in Manila that conversation turned to President Duterte. “He’s amazing, the best,” said Caldwell – our new, somewhat fast friend (and companion on the way from the airport).…

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,…