The Development Leadership Program (DLP or DLPROG) is an international research and policy initiative. The program addresses political processes that support development goals such as sustainable economic growth, political stability and inclusive social development.
In particular, DLPs can support or interfere with the central role of leaders, elites and coalitions in developing countries and leadership training program how they can actively reform institutions and policies in the public, private and civil society sectors. To verify. DLP is funded primarily through Australian aid programs
The main goal of DLP is to have a clearer understanding of the policy process that supports development changes and to incorporate this understanding into the thinking, policies, and practices of the broader development community. DLP does this as follows:
Conduct, test run, and publish high-quality policy-related surveys. Holding international seminars and workshops. It provides development practitioners and policy makers with clear policy guidance, country-level operational guidance, and policy analysis tools. At the heart of DLP’s work is the recognition that politics is at the heart of the development process.
Development is more than just a technical challenge or problem, or a transfer of information, skills, or resources. These are important, but it is also important that development is supported and maintained by local political actors and processes. Politics is understood by DLP in very broad terms, as all of the various activities of conflict, negotiation and cooperation that occur when people with different interests, ideas and degrees of influence have to make collective decisions about rules, resources and power.
Politics occurs at all levels and in all sectors and organisations in society. It unfolds through formal rules and institutions but also informal norms, customs and understandings. Politics is the key to the peaceful management of differences and disagreements, from energy policy in China and India through to the informal networks that promote womens rights in Egypt and Jordan.
Leadership is central to politics and DLP aims to improve understanding of the role of leaders, elites and coalitions in promoting (or frustrating) inclusive political settlements, stable policies, sustainable economic growth and inclusive social development – particularly in the context of weak and fragile states. DLP has published research on the following themes; activism, adaptive management, advocacy, agency, aid, climate change, coalitions, collective action, contestation, corruption, developmental leadership, education, elites, fragile states, gender, governance, growth, inequality, leadership, legitimacy, monitoring, evaluation and learning, networks, perceptions of leadership, political analysis, political settlements, politics, power, service delivery, statebuilding, thinking and working politically, values, and womens leadership. Read more…
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