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Month: May 2018

Three challenges for ‘politically smart’ programming (and me)

On May 7, 2018May 8, 2018 By Tara DavdaIn Governance3 Comments

As I stumbled over the acronyms, feeling the unfamiliar syllables trip up my tongue, I reflected on a curiosity: the closer my work takes me to aid providers, the more I hear about Thinking Working Politically (TWP), Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) and Doing Development Differently (DDD).

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