'Trains' or 'sailboats'? Programming for complex environments
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Join us for a brown bag lunch with Rachel Kleinfeld, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Rachel will talk about her recent research on how countries facing severe violence or corruption improved - and what those empirical findings mean for theories of change and interventions in complex environments. The lunch meeting will explore the challenges of Security and Rule of Law programming, including:
- How we can develop more impactful interventions?
- How can we enable accountability while allowing for learning and flexibility?
- How can we spur virtuous cycles when vicious cycles are prevalent?
- And how can we design activities that can be finished and measured in 3-5 years when change may take 50 years to reach fruition?
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' new Theory of Change for the Security & Rule of Law policy priority is taken as a case in point with Ms. Wilma van Esch, strategic policy advisor at the Stabilization and Humanitarian Aid Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Please register using the button on the right-hand side of the screen. With limited space available, registrations will be treated on a first come, first served basis.
About Rachel Kleinfeld
Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on issues of rule of law, security, and governance in post-conflict countries, fragile states, and states in transition. She has recently authored a report entitled Improving Development Aid Design and Evaluation: Plan for Sailboats, Not Trains, in which she argues for more flexible and adaptive interventions. She underlined this point in her video contribution to the third Annual Conference of the Platform.