Boundary riding, dual worlds and critical friends: reflections from the field

On June 27, 2019 By laviniatyrrelIn Aid and Development Policy, doing development differently, Governance, Indonesia, Opinion, Papua New GuineaLeave a comment

Ayesha from Papua New Guinea and Lilis from Indonesia* I sat down with Ayesha and Lilis (two rising stars from Abt-managed Australian Government funded aid projects in Indonesia and PNG) and said “tell me something interesting”. I was not disappointed. I was stuck by Ayesha’s idea of 'boundary riding’. Ayehsa – herself an Australian-Papua New …

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Take-up and Doubt: where have we got to on Thinking and Working Politically?

On June 21, 2019 By AdminIn Aid and Development Policy, Governance, institutions, Opinion, Thinking and Working PoliticallyLeave a comment

By Duncan Green of Oxfam and the brains behind From Poverty to Power Spent yesterday at a Washington workshop on ‘From Thinking Politically to Working Politically’, organized by Abt Associates, whose Graham Teskey is one of the TWP gurus. What struck me most was the combination of the spreading acceptance of TWP approaches within the aid …

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