Doing Development Differently at Scale
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- Pellini, Arnaldo (Author)
- Karetji, Petrarca C. (Author)
- Soekadis, Ade (Author)
- Pellini, Arnaldo (Editor)
- Prasetiamartati, Budiati (Editor)
- Nugroho, Kharisma Priyo (Editor)
- Jackson, Elisabeth (Editor)
- Carden, Fred (Editor)
Title
Doing Development Differently at Scale
Abstract
In recent decades there has been an increasing recognition that politics and political institutions matter for development. There is also a much greater interest in contextually grounded approaches. This has stemmed from an acknowledgement that purely technocratic approaches to development often result in failure because they do not take into account the nature of political institutions. Nor do they take account of the context in a particular developing country and the interests and incentives of powerful national actors. Policy processes are embedded in specific social, political and organisational contexts. Approaches that focus on implementing universal best practices in evidence-informed policymaking are unlikely to be successful. Instead, what is needed is an approach that takes the local context as the starting point for understanding what issues are relevant to policymakers and developing contextually appropriate solutions. The authors of this chapter reflect on the management approaches and systems that may be required to enable and support large-scale development programmes to be flexible and adaptive to the local policy context and circumstances. The chapter argues that such programmes struggle to adopt adaptive management principle and that to do that at scale requires some changes in the way such programmes are managed.
Book Title
Knowledge, Politics and Policymaking in Indonesia
Place
Singapore
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Date
2018
Pages
131-146
Language
en
ISBN
9789811301674
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21/09/2018, 08:57
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Pellini, A., Karetji, P. C., & Soekadis, A. (2018). Doing Development Differently at Scale. In A. Pellini, B. Prasetiamartati, K. P. Nugroho, E. Jackson, & F. Carden (Eds.), Knowledge, Politics and Policymaking in Indonesia (pp. 131–146). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0167-4_8
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