Panel | Rethinking Collaborative Governance
Panel 1 — Development and Local Ownership: Including the Beneficiaries in Governance
Description
All development projects are designed to benefit a given population — defined as “disadvantaged”, “at risk”, or “vulnerable”. These beneficiaries make the large figures of “high-impact” projects and populate the homepages of advocacy campaigns. However when it comes to governance, the picture is quite different — they are sometimes consulted, rarely participate, and almost never decide.
How can development projects genuinely include the populations they strive for in decision-making? What lessons can we learn from community-based approaches? How can technology help to reduce constraints?
Isabelle Jean | ModeratorIsabella Jean is the Director of Evaluation and Learning at CDA Collaborative Learning Projects and also serves as an Adjunct Faculty at Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy Management teaching a course on design, monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding. Isabella is an experienced researcher, analyst, trainer and lecturer on international assistance and aid effectiveness topics, focusing on conflict-sensitive aid, participatory program design, monitoring and evaluation methods, and peacebuilding effectiveness. At CDA, Isabella has led field-based collaborative research efforts with the Listening Program, Reflecting on Peace Practice Program and Do No Harm Program in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. As one of the lead facilitators on the Listening Project team, she conducted field research and co-authored the recently published book Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid with CDA colleagues, Mary B. Anderson and Dayna Brown. |
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Anahi Ayala Iacucci | PanelistAnahi Ayala Iacucci is the Senior Innovation Advisor for Internews, a Media Development Organization based in Washington DC. Before this position Anahi worked for 3 years as Internews Media Innovation Advisor for the Africa Region, Health and Humanitarian Media, based in Nairobi and working in Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Republic of South Sudan and Haiti. Anahi has consulted for NGOs and international organizations on the use of the ICT4D, new technologies and crisis mapping like UN OCHA Iraq Inter-Agency Information and Analysis Unit, Alliance Guinea, Freedom House, the World Bank, Ushahidi Inc., NDI , working on countries like Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Cambodia, Zambia, Egypt, Ghana, China, etc. Anahi is currently also the Expert Advisor on Mobile Technology for The Popular Engagement Policy Lab in Pakistan. Anahi is the Co-Founder and sits on the Board of the Standby Task Force, as well as being a member of the Board of Freedom Connect and a member of the International Network of Crisis Mappers. Anahi has been recently named by the Diplomatic Courier to the 2012 99 Under 33 list, as one of the 99 under 33 most influential foreign policy leader in the Innovators Category. |
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Dennis Whittle | PanelistDennis Whittle is a member of the Leadership Group at Ashoka, where he also manages the Changemakers platform. He is co-founder of GlobalGiving, where he was CEO from 2000–2010. He is currently also Professor of the Practice and Social Entrepreneur in Residence at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development. In fall 2011 he was Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. Previously, he was an economist at the World Bank (1986–2000), where he lived and/or worked for many years in Indonesia and Russia. His team there also created the Development Marketplace in early 2000. In 1984–85, Dennis worked for the Asian Development Bank and USAID in the Philippines, where he was an extra in one of Chuck Norris’s best movies, “Missing in Action” (1984). Prior to that, he was a short-order cook and busboy at several restaurants, including the late Oasis Restaurant in Leitchfield, KY and the Porthole in Chapel Hill, NC. Dennis did his graduate work in economics and international development at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and did his undergraduate work in religious studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar. He also attended an Executive Development Program for World Bank leaders that was co-created by the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School. |
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Jeff Hall | PanelistJeff Hall is World Vision International’s Director of Local Advocacy. In his capacity, Jeff oversees World Vision’s local advocacy, participatory governance, and social accountability work in the organization’s 1600 programmes in 93 countries. In particular, Jeff leads World Vision’s Citizen Voice and Action approach to social accountability. The approach has led to encouraging improvements in health and education outcomes and policy change in dozens of countries. Prior to joining World Vision, Jeff served as a lawyer with the Inter-American Court for Human Rights. He has published articles on the Court’s jurisprudence and comparative human rights frameworks. Earlier in his career, Jeff worked in grassroots development and human rights activism in North America, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. He now lives with his family in Atlanta, Georgia. |
Panel 2 — BRICS Abroad: Shifting Patterns of Foreign Aid
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Representing a quarter of the global GDP, the BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — have begun to provide significant amounts of foreign aid to other developing countries, particularly those in Africa. With assistance from traditional donors such as the US and Western Europe decreasing in real terms in 2011, emerging BRICS donors offer countries more opportunities to finance much-needed development. However, there is a rising concern over this type of funding as it typically comes in the absence of domestic frameworks for accountability on international engagements. This shift has heightened worries on this model’s potential to undercut international standards and encourage unsustainable policies, governments, and debt. Are these worries over-rated considering that some foreign aid is better than none at all? This panel will explore whether the BRICS present an alternative and competing model of involvement and foreign assistance to that of traditional donors and whether this aid is more, less, or equally effective in improving standards of living for recipients.
Robert Paarlberg | ModeratorRobert Paarlberg is the Betty Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is also Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Paarlberg received his B.A. from Carleton College and his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. He teaches, consults, and conducts research on public policy, especially international food and agricultural policy. |
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Andreas Fuchs | PanelistDr. Andreas Fuchs is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. He is on leave from the Chair of International and Development Politics at Heidelberg University. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Goettingen in 2012. His Ph.D. thesis “Political Determinants of Foreign Aid and International Trade of Emerging Economies” studies the aid allocation decisions of emerging donors. Andreas has worked as a consultant for the OECD and the Bertelsmann Foundation and is affiliated with the AidData Center of Development Policy at the College of William and Mary and Brigham Young University. |
Panel 3 — Climate and Development: Cooperation Beyond the Kyoto Protocol
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Twenty years of negotiation under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change have produced little measurable progress reducing greenhouse gas emissions or enabling the most vulnerable to adapt to the impacts of climate change. The world urgently needs new approaches to international climate and development cooperation that think beyond the Kyoto Protocol’s top-down, legally-binding structure. This panel will bring together leading climate and development researchers and policymakers in a dialogue about building and sustaining momentum toward low-carbon and resilient development through action by non-state actors, including development institutions, local governments, and the private sector.
Lawrence MacDonald | PanelistVice President for Communications and Policy Outreach Center for Global Development (Washington, DC) Lawrence MacDonald is vice president for communications and policy outreach at the Center for Global Development. He also oversees the Center’s operations. A development policy communications specialist and former foreign correspondent, he works to increase the influence of CGD’s research and analysis by leading an integrated communications program that includes events, publications, media relations, online engagement, and government and NGO outreach. Before joining the Center in October 2004, MacDonald was a senior communications officer at the World Bank where he provided strategic communications advice to chief economists, coordinated the preparation of research publications and created the World Bank Research web site. He was founding editor of the Bank’s Policy Research Report series and launched two innovative yet enduring web tools: the Bank’s Online Media Briefing Center and the International AIDS Economic Network (IAEN), a virtual community. Prior to that he worked in East and Southeast Asia for 15 years as a reporter and editor for The Asian Wall Street Journal, Agence France Presse, and Asiaweek Magazine. Education: University of Michigan Journalism Fellow (1989–90); Intensive study of Mandarin Chinese at Taiwan Normal University (1976–78); B.A. with High Honors in East Asian Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara (1976) |
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Shilpa Patel | PanelistPrincipal Advisor for Climate Finance in the Private Sector World Resources Institute (Washington, DC) Shilpa works with WRI’s Climate Finance in the Private Sector initiative on the overall program, providing review, comments and substantive inputs on working papers and strategic initiatives. She acts as a resource person for the team and participates in key outreach activities. Previously, she worked at the International Finance Corporation, where she headed IFC’s work on climate change strategy and metrics, supporting the corporation’s climate change agenda and commitment to increase its climate-friendly lending. She has also worked at the World Bank on private sector development across a number of sectors, regions and economies in transition. She has also held the position of Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where she taught courses on Project Finance. Shilpa received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 and 1983, respectively. |
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Andrea Savage | PanelistAndrea supports the CarbonPlus Director in the development of EcoLogic’s forestry-based carbon projects with a focus on social and environmental safeguards. A Colombian citizen, Andrea holds an MA in sustainable international development from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She was recently selected as a 2013 Kinship Conservation Fellow, a leadership program that emphasizes market-based solutions to environmental problems, with a global network of over 174 Fellows in 46 countries and 6 continents. Andrea was based in Mexico for four months of her master’s program working on a payment for watershed services project with Salvemos al Rio Laja, A.C., and conducting thesis research on the impact of land tenure on payment for ecosystem service projects in Mexico. She also holds a BA in international relations from Tufts University. Her previous work experience also includes a position at the William J. Clinton Foundation, Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) as the National Coordinator for REDD Projects in Papua New Guinea in 2009 where she was first exposed to the important role of indigenous land tenure rights in conservation initiatives. Raised in Hong Kong, Andrea speaks fluent English and Spanish. |