Who we are & What we do Local Research for Better Lives Slide 1 | Title WHAT IS GDN? • A public international organization that supports high-quality, policy- oriented, social science research in developing and transition countries, to promote better lives • Governed by a Board of Directors that includes prominent global scholars • GDN is also governed by an international Assembly with members from five countries: Colombia, Hungary, India, Spain and Sri Lanka Slide 2 | Introduction VISION A world in which evidence and scholarly knowledge inform and inspire development and policy decisions. PURPOSE Improve development outcomes and livelihoods through high-quality, policy-oriented research in the social sciences, produced in developing countries and connected globally. VALUES Inclusiveness, transparency, efficiency, and research ethics and quality. Slide 3 | Introduction LEADERSHIP Alan Winters Pierre Jacquet Chair of the Board President University of Sussex Board of Directors 2017 Francois Bourguignon, Paris School of Mthuli Ncube, Blavatnik School of Government Economics [FRANCE] and Research [UK] Guillermo de la Dehesa, Centre for Economics Guillermo Perry, Universidad de Los Andes Policy Research [SPAIN] [COLOMBIA] Joan Esteban, Barcelona Graduate School of Cristian Popa, ex European Investment Bank Economics [SPAIN] [ROMANIA] Sato Hiroshi, Institute of Developing Economies Biman Prasad, The University of the South (IDE) [JAPAN] Pacific [FIJI] Wahiduddin Mahmud, Economic Research Shlomo Weber, Southern Methodist University, Group [BANGLADESH] Dallas [RUSSIA] Helen Milner, Woodrow Wilson School [USA] Slide 4 | Introduction In 2016, GDN had active programs in over 60 countries PROGRAMS Slide 23 | Current Programs ACHIEVEMENTS Figures: 1999 - 2016 Slide 8 | History REVENUE STREAM July 2015 – December 2016 Slide 24 | Revenue Strategy Strengthening research in low-capacity environments Ongoing Program: • Building Research Capacity in Least Developed Countries WHAT | Building the capacity to build research capacity in weak research environments WHY | These regions and countries are excluded from development initiatives HOW | 2-3 year partnerships with institutions, provide them with a package of services to meet their goals and monitor their results Slide 27 | New Strategy Supporting global collaborative research Ongoing Programs: • Natural Resources Management • Mobilizing Local knowledge to Improve Competitiveness Strategies • Productivity Improvement in the Private and Public Sector: Roles and Lessons from Kaizen Approaches • Development Aid Effectiveness in Africa • EIB program in Applied Development Finance and Organizational Learning • Doing Research • Research & Development Awards WHAT | High-quality global collaborative research programs across countries, regions and disciplines WHY | Global challenges need to be addressed through local dimensions HOW | Support research on sustainable development challenges, encourage north-south and south- south connections, capacity building, quality control and monitoring. Slide 29 | New Strategy Putting development research to better use Ongoing Programs: • Annual Global Development Conference • Policy Labs • GDN Events • GlobalDev – blog • Website and Social Media outreach WHAT | Instruments and approaches to connect research and policy WHY | A mismatch between the demand and need for evidence and policy research by decision- makers and the supply of academic research HOW | Open the design of research to all development stakeholders to connect demand and supply develop high quality research translation products Slide 31 | New Strategy EXPECTED IMPACT Through better knowledge of major development challenges, visible progress in a number of sectors related to sustainable development and poverty reduction More effective research capacity building assistance Policy is better informed in least developed countries Better development policies and lives for citizens Slide 35 | New Strategy Impact Stories ARMENIA IMPACT STORY | 2009-13 STRENGTHENING INSTITUTIONS TO IMPROVE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Sector Accountability GRANTEE Advanced Social Technologies DONOR Department for International Development (DFID), UK Slide 11 | Impact Story Study| Benefit incidence analysis of public subsidies for higher education. Main Finding | The top income quintile received five times more subsidies than the bottom one. Recommendation | A system of The project aimed to targeted subsidies through loans and “develop an independent need-based allowances to universities, analytical capability to counter poorer students’ exclusion outside of government from the national skilled labor market. that understands budgets and programs and how to Impact | The recommendations were reform them.” Charles incorporated a new government Griffin, Lead Technical strategy for equitable education, Advisor enacted into law by Parliament in 2011. Slide 12 | Impact Story MADAGASCAR IMPACT STORY | 2015-16 NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN MADAGASCAR PROJECT Global Research Project on Natural Resource Management GRANTEE Solofo Andriamanantsoa Rakotondraompiana, University of Antananarivo DONORS Agence Française de Développement, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Development Slide 13 | Impact Story Study| Natural capital accounting, for measuring natural capital and ecosystem services through land-cover mapping in a protected area called Antrema. Findings identified areas that require more managerial focus to stop degradation. Principal Investigator Result | The program increased the Rakotondraompiana points visibility of the research team and the out that, “ the Indian Ocean Commission funded the implementation of natural team to carry a similar exercise in a capital accounting is feasible different protected area; the government with few resources.” showed interest in the method; and the program confirmed the feasibility of a bottom-up approach mobilizing local constituencies to build natural capital accounts. Slide 14 | Impact Story ETHIOPIA IMPACT STORY | 2014-2017 BUILDING RESEARCH CAPACITY IN LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES PROJECT Building Research Capacity in Least Developed Countries GRANTEE Haramaya University in Ethiopia DONORS The World Bank and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada Slide 15 | Impact Story Pilot | Strengthen research Impact | The university training programs in least institutionalized new standards for developed countries, based funding, designing and evaluating on institutional demand. research trainings and re-allocated internal resources from ministerial Process | Tailor support for budgets to strengthen research designing, monitoring and training. evaluating high-quality research trainings, and outreach. Slide 16 | Impact Story www.gdn.int Slide 36 | Closing Slide .