Learning from the experience of others is a valuable resource. Here you will find blogs that showcase case studies from other countries around the world. You will also find stories and personal reflections from my experience in the public sector.
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This blog is a short answer to the question people ask me the most; “What was it like to be a Minister?” This is my first personal reflection of what it meant for me. I talk briefly about the good, the bad, the ugly and the hope.
Effective communication is an essential component of crisis response. In this article, I share three lessons from Korea, Colombia and Argentina regarding disaster response.
Politicians and civil servants think about public policy differently. This seems obvious, but understanding how and why their views and priorities are different is crucial to improve policy implementation. In this blog, I’ll use the example of housing reconstruction after Ecuador’s 2016 earthquake to highlight these two perspectives.
In this blog I share 3 lessons from my experience dealing with a crisis, Ecuador´s 2016 earthquake. I also prepared a cheat sheet with additional information and examples that complement this blog.
In our guest blog Graham Teskey argues that COVID-19 might be changing the focus and urgency of the governance discourse, more in the last six months than anything else has done over the last decade. COVID-19, he says, seems to have put Governance at the heart of debates on development, but how has it changed the questions we ask?
Despite responding with the most drastic measures and implementing the biggest fiscal stimulus in Latin America, Peru has been one of the worst-hit countries by the pandemic. It would appear certain structural features of Peru have played a key role. In this blog I highlight five.
By Sandra Naranjo Bautista Being from a developing country, I was a bit sceptical of the power of government action. The absence of adequate government services made me doubt the possibility of having an impact from the public sector. At the time, my country was going through ten years of political and economic instability. During …
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