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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 François Bourguignon Pierre Jacquet Chair of the Board President Professor Emeritus, Paris School of Economics & Former Chief Economist of the World Bank Board of Directors 2018 VICE CHAIR | Guillermo Perry , Universidad de Los Habibul Haque Khondker, Zayed University [UAE] Andes [COLOMBIA] Justin Yifu Lin, Institute of South-South Cooperation and ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Development [CHINA] Pulapre Balakrishnan, Ashoka University [INDIA] Wahiduddin Mahmud , Economic Research Group Guillermo de la Dehesa , Centre for Economics [BANGLADESH] Policy Research [SPAIN] Helen Milner , Woodrow Wilson School [USA] Shanta Devarajan, The World Bank Mthuli Ncube , Blavatnik School of Government and Joan Esteban , Barcelona Graduate School of Research [UK] Economics [SPAIN] Biman Prasad , The University of the South Pacific [FIJI] Francisco Ferreira, World Bank Development Cristian Popa , ex European Investment Bank [ROMANIA] Research Group Siew Yea Tham, ISEAS- Yusof Ishak Institute [MALAYSIA] Heba Handoussa, Egypt Network for Integrated Shlomo Weber , Southern Methodist University, Dallas Development [EGYPT] [RUSSIA] Sato Hiroshi, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) [JAPAN] Slide 4 | Introduction

Grantees around the world REACH 1999 -2017 Slide 23 | Program s

ACHIEVEMENTS Figures: 1999-2017 Slide 8 | History

REVENUE STREAM Slide 24 | Revenue

Strategy | 2017-2022

Strengthening research in low-capacity environments Ongoing Program: • Building Research Capacity in Least Developed Countries | Building the capacity to build research capacity in weak research environments WHAT | These regions and countries are excluded from development initiatives WHY | 2-3 year partnerships with institutions, provide them with a package of services to meet their HOW 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 | Instruments and approaches to connect research and policy WHAT | A mismatch between the demand and need for evidence and policy research by decision- WHY makers and the supply of academic research | Open the design of research to all development stakeholders to connect demand and supply HOW develop high quality research translation products Slide 31 | New Strategy

STRATEGIC 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 | Im pact 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 | Im pact 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 | Im pact 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. Result | The program increased the Principal Investigator visibility of the research team and the Rakotondraompiana points Indian Ocean Commission funded the out that, “ the team to carry a similar exercise in a implementation of natural different protected area; the government capital accounting is feasible showed interest in the method; and the with few resources.” program confirmed the feasibility of a bottom-up approach mobilizing local constituencies to build natural capital accounts. Slide 14 | Im pact 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 | Im pact 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 | Im pact Story

www.gdn.int Slide 36 | Closing Slide