GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC
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Organizations Filed Purposes: GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT NETWORK'S (GDN) MISSION IS TO BE A GLOBAL NETWORK THAT EMPOWERS RESEARCHERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, STRENGTHENS RESEARCH SKILLS, AND MOBILIZES RESEARCH FOR PUBLIC POLICY.

EMPOWER RESEARCHERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, STRENGTHEN RESEARCH SKILLS & MOBILIZE RESEARCH

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDS COMPETITION - JAPAN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FUND AWARDTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDS COMPETITION IS AN AWARD SCHEME LAUNCHED BY GDN WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE, GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN, AND ADMINISTERED THROUGH THE WORLD BANK. IT INCLUDES THREE CATEGORIES: JAPANESE AWARD ON OUTSTANDING RESEARCH ON DEVELOPMENT (ORD), JAPANESE AWARD FOR MOST INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (MIDP), AND JAPAN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FUND AWARD (JSDF). THIS MAKES FOR A GREAT VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES IN THE COMPETITION, MAKING IT GDN'S ONLY PROGRAM TO INVOLVE BOTH RESEARCHERS AND DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONERS. THE AWARDS COMPETITION RECOGNIZES EXCELLENCE IN POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH, IDENTIFIES TALENTS, SUPPORTS THE CAREER ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCHERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, AND FUNDS INNOVATIVE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED BY NGOS AND BENEFITING MARGINALIZED GROUPS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. CURRENTLY, ON TOP OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GRANTS AWARDED (2017 EDITION) AT GDN'S ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN NEW DELHI ON 22-23 MARCH 2018, GDN IS AWAITING THE ISSUANCE BY THE WORLD BANK OF THE GRANT AGREEMENT FOR THE NEXT 3 EDITIONS, APPROVED BY THE DONOR (MINISTRY OF FINANCE, GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN) IN JULY 2018. IN THE MEANWHILE, THE WORLD BANK HAS ALLOWED RETROACTIVE FINANCING TO RUN THE ORD COMPETITION ALONE BETWEEN MAY 2019 AND OCTOBER 2019, WHEN THE WINNERS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ANNOUNCED AT THE GDN GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE IN BONN, GERMANY. UNDER THE ORD CALL FOR 2019, 102 APPLICATIONS WERE RECEIVED FROM 32 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES (CITIZENSHIP OF THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR). 29.4% OF THESE APPLICATIONS FEATURED A TEAM LED BY A WOMAN, AND 31.4% WERE ABOUT PROJECTS OR RESEARCH LEAD BY A TEAM WITH CITIZENSHIP OF A LOW-INCOME ECONOMY COUNTRY (28.4% WERE ALSO RESIDENTS IN SUCH A COUNTRY). 53 PROPOSALS FROM 25 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES (CITIZENSHIP OF THE AUTHOR) WERE SHORTLISTED, OF WHICH 35.8% LED BY A WOMAN, AND 22.6% LEAD BY A TEAM WITH CITIZENSHIP OF A LOW-INCOME ECONOMY COUNTRY. THE FINAL SHORTLIST INCLUDES 3 PROPOSALS FROM INDIA, MALAYSIA AND PHILIPPINES.

RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM - ("RCBP"). THIS PROJECT SUPPORTS QUALITY RESEARCH IN MANY COUNTRIES, INVOLVING LOCAL RESEARCH TEAMS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD. THE MULTI-COUNTRY STUDIES ALLOW FOR BOTH COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ACROSS REGIONS AND COUNTRIES. - DOING RESEARCH ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENT FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIESTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (GDN) LAUNCHED AN INNOVATIVE PROGRAM TO INVESTIGATE SYSTEMATICALLY THE CHALLENGES OF DOING QUALITY SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. INFORMED BY A TWO-YEAR PILOT PHASE, THIS PROGRAM HAS PARTNERED WITH NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS FROM BOLIVIA, INDONESIA, MYANMAR AND NIGERIA TO IMPLEMENT THE DOING RESEARCH ASSESSMENTS (DRA): A METHOD FOR ANALYZING THE STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, CHALLENGES AND BOTTLENECKS THAT AFFECT QUALITY AND POLICY-RELEVANT SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH. EXCEPT FOR MYANMAR, WHICH IS FUNDED BY IDRC, ALL GRANTS ARE CURRENTLY FUNDED BY GDN. THE PROGRAM REPRESENTS AN INNOVATIVE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT AND ACT ON THE STATUS AND FUTURE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, AND GDN WILL LEAD THE AGGREGATION, BENCHMARKING AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF KNOWLEDGE THAT EMERGES FROM THE ASSESSMENT, SUPPORTING IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS TO USE FINDINGS TO GUIDE ACTION ON RESEARCH SYSTEM STRENGTHENING. IN THE PAST YEAR, GDN HAS GUIDED THE 4 COUNTIES THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DRA, AND HAS EXPANDED THE GLOBAL VISIBILITY OF THE PROGRAM, IN PREPARATION FOR A LARGER IMPLEMENTATION AS PART OF AN ALLIANCE OF LIKE-MINDED ORGANIZATIONS, DONORS AND PARTNERS, WHICH WILL BE DISCUSSED AT THE GDN GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE IN BONN, GERMANY, IN OCTOBER 2019.- BUILDING RESEARCH CAPACITY IN LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES(LDC SCALE PHASE PROGRAM)A CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR INSTITUTIONS INTERESTED IN STRENGTHENING THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF POLICY-RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE ON THE LINKS BETWEEN THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT HAS BEEN ISSUED IN SPRING 2018, AS A FOLLOW-UP TO THE IDRC-FUNDED PROGRAM "STRENGTHENING RESEARCH CAPACITIES IN LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES". LIKE THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE (IDRC)-FUNDED PROGRAM, THIS CALL FOCUSED ON DEMAND-LED PROPOSALS THAT SOUGHT TO IMPLEMENT HOME-GROWN IDEAS TO STRENGTHEN RESEARCH PRODUCTION, TRAINING AND OUTREACH LOCALLY. THIS CALL ADDS TO PREVIOUS FUNDING A THEMATIC FOCUS (THE LINK BETWEEN THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT), AND WILL BE USED TO INNOVATE IN TERMS OF A NUMBER OF ASPECTS OF GDN FUNDING, STARTING FROM 'MENTORING' APPLIED TO INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS, TO STRONGER M&E AND SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORKS FOR EACH GRANT AND THE PROGRAM OVERALL. TWO INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN SELECTED AFTER A MULTI-STAGE AND EXTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS: ONE IN VIETNAM, WHICH WILL DEVELOP A REGIONAL TRAINING PLATFORM TO APPLY COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS TO STUDY THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN VIETNAM, AND ONE IN INDIA, WHICH IS DEVELOPING A PLATFORM AND A TOOLKIT TO MAKE ADAPTATION RESEARCH ACCESSIBLE TO ACTORS INVOLVED IN ADAPTIVE UPGRADATION OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS IN SOUTH ASIA.THE GRANT IN VIETNAM HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED, AND IS SCHEDULED TO END IN SEPTEMBER 2019, WITH THE CREATION OF A REGIONAL NETWORK OF RESEARCHERS WORKING ON ADAPTATION THROUGH ECONOMIC MODELLING TOOLS, PIVOTING AROUND THE FOREIGN TRADE UNIVERSITY. THE GRANT FOR FIELDS OF VIEW, THE INDIA-BASED CO-WINNER OF THE SELECTION, COULD NOT BE ISSUED FOR STATUTORY REASONS (PENDING AUTHORIZATION FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA TO RECEIVE INTERNATIONAL FUNDING).DESPITE THIS SETBACK, THE PROGRAM HAS DEEPENED GDN'S EXPERIENCE IN USING MENTORING FOR INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING PROGRAMS, AND SUPPORTED ITS INCIPIENT WORK IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION SPACE.- STRENGTHENING THE RESEARCH CAPACITY OF RELATIVELY SMALL COUNTRIES IN LAC LAUNCHED IN JUNE 2015, THIS INNOVATIVE PROJECT AIMS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PARTICULAR CONSTRAINTS FACED BY SMALL COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF POLICY-ORIENTED SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND STRENGTHEN CAPABILITIES OF SELECT RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY MAKING PROCESS. THE COUNTRIES OF FOCUS IN THE PROJECT ARE THE BAHAMAS, BARBADOS, BELIZE, BOLIVIA, COSTA RICA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, GUYANA, HONDURAS, JAMAICA, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, PARAGUAY, SURINAME, AND TRINIDAD & TOBAGO. IN THE FIRST PHASE, A DIAGNOSTIC STUDY HIGHLIGHTED MAJOR DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES AS WELL AS EMERGING PRIORITY AREAS IN TERMS OF THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH. IN A SECOND PHASE, LOCAL INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS WERE SELECTED, THROUGH A MULTI-STEP SELECTION PROCESS THAT INCLUDED A POLICY LAB, TO PRODUCE ORIGINAL RESEARCH ON THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF POLICIES AIMING TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN THE TARGET COUNTRIES. 2 TEAMS (ECUADOR AND EL SALVADOR) SECURED THE SUPPORT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE NATIONAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, A CONDITION THAT APPLIES TO ALL WORK FUNDED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (IDB.) THE REMAINING FUNDS HAVE BEEN RE-ALLOCATED THROUGH A FINAL EXTENSION OF THE GRANT TO SUPPORT THE INSTITUTIONS IN DEVELOPING, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE RESPECTIVE EDUCATION MINISTRIES AND THE LOCAL IDB OFFICES, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION BLUEPRINTS FOR INTERVENTIONS (TO BE FUNDED IN THE FUTURE BY THE MINISTRIES) THAT BUILD ON THE FINDINGS OF PHASE 2.PHASE 2 HAS BEEN COMPLETED IN ECUADOR, BUT WAS CANCELLED IN EL SALVADOR, DUE TO CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION BEFORE AND AFTER THE FEBRUARY 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.THE EVALUATION HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE VALUE OF GDN'S DEMAND-DRIVEN APPROACH TO INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY STRENGTHENING, AND SUPPORTED THE CONTINUATION OF THE PROGRAM. - MOBILIZING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE FOR COMPETITIVENESS STRATEGIES:THE PROJECT AIMS AT DOCUMENTING HOW GOVERNMENTS AND COMPANIES INTERACT TO IMPROVE OR CONVERSELY PENALIZE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY. THE AMBITION IS ALSO TO CREATE A BOTTOM-UP MOVEMENT TO DOCUMENT POLICY-MAKING FROM LOCALLY GENERATED ANALYSIS AND EVIDENCE AND TRAIN THE LOCAL RESEARCH CONSTITUENCY NEEDED TO CARRY THAT MISSION. THE FOCUS WILL BE ON AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN AND PACIFIC GROUP OF STATES. AFTER A COMPETITIVE PROCESS, THE GLOBAL PRACTICE AT THE WORLD BANK HAS BEEN ABLE TO HIRE GDN INC. AS A CONSULTANT FOR THIS PROJECT AND A CONTRACT HAS BEEN SIGNED AT THE END OF AUGUST 2015. IN FY 2018/2019, A FINAL REVIEW WAS CONDUCTED BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBERS. THE PAPERS WERE PUBLISHED IN THE GDN WORKING PAPER SERIES. THE FINAL EVENT COULD NOT BE HELD BEFORE THE END OF THE CONTRACT SINCE IT WAS PENDING ON A FINAL DECISION MEETING AT THE WORLD BANK, WHICH HAD NOT BEEN ORGANIZED BEFORE NOVEMBER 2018.

GLOBALDEV (BLOG):GLOBALDEV.BLOG IS A NEW PLATFORM THAT MOBILIZES ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE ON MAJOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES. LAUNCHED ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018, THE PLATFORM HAS NOW POSTED 96 ARTICLES ON TOPICS SUCH AS AGRICULTURE, AID EFFECTIVENESS, CLIMATE CHANGE, ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION, EDUCATION, FINANCING DEVELOPMENT, GLOBALIZATION, HEALTH, MIGRATION, NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION (INFORMATION UPDATED ON SEPTEMBER 12TH, 2019). 81% OF AUTHORS ARE EITHER NATIONALS OR BASED IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH. ALL BLOG POSTS ARE AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH, SPANISH AND FRENCH, AND ARE SHARED THROUGH THE BLOG'S SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ALSOE THROUGH TARGETED ADVERTISING IN ARABIC. THE BLOG HAS BETWEEN 500 AND 900 WEEKLY UNIQUE USERS, COMING MOSTLY FROM AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA AND SOUTH ASIA. THE BLOG IS CURRENTLY FUNDED FOR THE LARGEST PART BY GDN.

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