Doing Development Differently: Understanding the Landscape and Implications of New Approaches to Governance and Public-sector Reforms

Fritz, Verena

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2017

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Doing Development Differently: Understanding the Landscape and Implications of New Approaches to Governance and Public-sector Reforms

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Seeking to accelerate development, the agencies and individuals involved have regularly advanced new ideas of how external support can function better, deliver more, and achieve greater impact. There has been a particular flourishing of new ideas within the broad field of governance and public-sector reforms in the 2000s. This chapter starts off with a review of the “landscape of new ideas,” focusing on five proposed approaches in particular: political economy analysis (PEA), Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA), Doing Development Differently (DDD), Thinking and Working Politically (TWP), and the “science of delivery.” It sets out the “problem-diagnostic” that underpins each of these