A flagship event was organised by the Campbell Collaboration, in partnership with the Global Development Network, titled, “Evidence for Development: What Works Global Summit 2021”. 900 participants from all around the world, among a diverse group of researchers, evaluators, policymakers and practitioners from private sectors were present in this event. The themes and events surrounded innovation, health, policy, climate change, education, and other factors pivotal to global development.
Researchers and executive heads of BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) were invited to the event to make valuable inputs on the corresponding sessions. Mehnaz Rabbani, Head, Operations & Strategic Engagement and Partnership, chaired a rapid-fire session on DAY 2 of the event. Dr Imran Matin, Executive Director, was one of the panelists on a session that was based on, ‘Evidence synthesis initiatives on social accountability and governance’, a BIGD publication. Social accountability and evidence are both highly contested terminologies, and this publication illustrates an evidence gap map on social accountability. Iffat Zahan and Shamael Ahmed, researcher associates from BIGD, also joined the panel. Imran Matin was also a panelist for Plenary 4, which was on A Southern-driven development research agenda. The discussion was regarding the Southern-based think tanks, universities, and research centers in developing research agendas and the challenges in doing so. On DAY 5, Imran Matin chaired an agenda regarding the global south and Governance and access to services, respectively. He emphasized that whilst governance research does not really focus upon the government dimension of access to justices, development economists are showing interest in this new dimension of governance research.
Recordings of the conference are now available here.
A flagship event was organised by the Campbell Collaboration, in partnership with the Global Development Network, titled, “Evidence for Development: What Works Global Summit 2021”. 900 participants from all around the world, among a diverse group of researchers, evaluators, policymakers and practitioners from private sectors were present in this event. The themes and events surrounded innovation, health, policy, climate change, education, and other factors pivotal to global development.
Researchers and executive heads of BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) were invited to the event to make valuable inputs on the corresponding sessions. Mehnaz Rabbani, Head, Operations & Strategic Engagement and Partnership, chaired a rapid-fire session on DAY 2 of the event. Dr Imran Matin, Executive Director, was one of the panelists on a session that was based on, ‘Evidence synthesis initiatives on social accountability and governance’, a BIGD publication. Social accountability and evidence are both highly contested terminologies, and this publication illustrates an evidence gap map on social accountability. Iffat Zahan and Shamael Ahmed, researcher associates from BIGD, also joined the panel. Imran Matin was also a panelist for Plenary 4, which was on A Southern-driven development research agenda. The discussion was regarding the Southern-based think tanks, universities, and research centers in developing research agendas and the challenges in doing so. On DAY 5, Imran Matin chaired an agenda regarding the global south and Governance and access to services, respectively. He emphasized that whilst governance research does not really focus upon the government dimension of access to justices, development economists are showing interest in this new dimension of governance research.
Recordings of the conference are now available here.
