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The Governance Action Spotlights showcase diverse local governance efforts and initiatives globally. We also highlight innovative and transformative work happening at the grassroots level, in order to foster a broader understanding and appreciation for effective governance practices worldwide.
Featured Resources and Ideas
Designing & Facilitating Collaborative Learning Networks: A Toolkit
Toolkit | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding how you can use to help coalitions solve problems together, design learning activities that focus on drawing out expertise of local governance innovators, and manage networks of people working towards a common goal.
The Audacity Deficit in Natural Resource Governance
Paper | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding the insights that informed the concept and the design of the Governance Action Hub.
Making Colombia’s energy transition a just one for all: 4 lessons from the Governance Action Hub
Blog | The Governance Action Hub aims to convene and put local change agents in the driver’s seat to analyze local challenges, co-create solutions and take action collectively. In March 2024, our team traveled to Colombia — one of the countries where...
Ideas
Emerging thoughts from the Governance trenches. Here, we collect blogs published by the Hub’s team and other thought leaders.
State Capture Matters: Challenging corruption and a new dataset
Blog | Editor’s note: The following blog is part of the Governance Action Hub initiatives to use evidence and data for action in one of its core themes: state capture and anticorruption. The blog is a companion to the article “
Strengthening local coalitions for change: What’s next for the Governance Action Hub?
Blog | A few weeks ago, the R4D-led Governance Action Hub hosted its official launch event. Since then, the team has been preparing for initial country-level engagements and designing a new knowledge portal. In this blog, we share key messages from the...
Making Colombia’s energy transition a just one for all: 4 lessons from the Governance Action Hub
Blog | The Governance Action Hub aims to convene and put local change agents in the driver’s seat to analyze local challenges, co-create solutions and take action collectively. In March 2024, our team traveled to Colombia — one of the countries where...
Tools and Toolkits
These are collections of insight and how-to information that inform the way the Governance Action Hub and partners promote governance reform.
Community Led Development (CLD) Evaluation Tool
Tool | USE THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN:
Assessing whether your programs are aligned with the principles of community led development and how they might be approved.
Systems Thinking and Practice: A Guide to Concepts, Principles and Tools for FCDO and Partners
Toolkit | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding how FCDO approaches and uses systems thinking to address to complex, rapidly changing global challenges, particularly in the context of international development, governance, and policy-making.
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State Capture Matters: A research article and associated dataset and index
Paper | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: The dynamics of state capture, its impact on governance, and how it differs from traditional corruption, especially in the context of policy influence and institutional reform.
Coalition building for collective action: three process design strategies
READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED Building coalitions for political change, tackling corruption, and creating effective dialogue between diverse political and societal actors.
Integrating theories of change in programme management and delivery
READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Learning how to use theories of change effectively in program delivery to improve planning, adaptation, and risk management.
Collaborative Learning Networks Measurement & Learning Framework
READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding how to measure the impact of collaborative learning networks in driving systems change through peer-to-peer learning.
Thinking and Working Politically on the Governance of Extractive Industries
READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Learning how political dynamics impact governance in the extractive industries and how the adoption of politically informed approaches can improve governance and development outcomes in this sector.
On the Right Tack: Reflections on Coalition-Building Initiatives Across The Asia Foundation
READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Learning about the role of coalitions in development and how they can drive policy change, based on successful initiatives in Asia.
Systems Mapping: unpacking complexity and identifying opportunity for change
WATCH THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Visualizing and analyzing complex systems, including relationships between actors, processes, and structures. Learn how systems mapping can be used for evaluation or program design.
Making anti-corruption real: using a ‘Power Capabilities and Interest Approach’ to stop wasting money and start making progress
READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Rethinking anti-corruption strategies and exploring a new approach that focuses on power dynamics, capabilities, and interests to make anti-corruption efforts more effective.
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