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We send out a really simple regular newsletter to our clients, partners, and team members (and anyone else who is interested) to share the top 10 things we find interesting in the field of public sector governance, organizational development, and aid effectiveness.

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To decentralize or not to decentralise: Is that the question?

The extent to which a UN Agency should centralize or decentralize is one of the most vexing questions in Organizational Design today. Typically UN leaders and staff view it as an ‘either/or’ choice: Should we group an activity together, or should we push it out to the regions and country offices? In truth, it is not a simple, binary answer and the arguements for both sides are persuasive to say the least.

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What is adaptive management?

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Recently there has been growing recognition that most development challenges are in actual fact ‘wicked’ problem that requires development actors to recognize that the optimal management approaches will be iterative not definitive, and inclusive not technocratic.

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Navigating the paradoxes of continuous improvement

Any donor who has supporting institutional capacity development through continuous improvement has realised just how difficult it is to achieve and sustain. The problem becomes more challenging when working in fragile and conflict-affected environments.

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