Samuel L. Sharp

Dec 19, 2023 | odi.org | Samuel L. Sharp

It is part of a UN Capital Development Fund project to support municipal governments in ‘rebuilding local fiscal space’ following the Covid-19 pandemic, and is written with municipal governments in mind. But it also covers a broader range of evidence and more general lessons.

Apr 28, 2023 | odi.org | Tim Kelsall |Samuel L. Sharp

Traction is a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office-funded programme that aims to improve the accountability and responsiveness of local and national government in Malawi by building reform coalitions around tangible issues of economic growth and service delivery. Traction’s Issue-Based Projects were organised via a series of ‘Test-Learn-Adapt Sprint Cycles’ that encouraged it to learn about the issues, the context, and how to run an adaptive programme in Malawi.

Apr 20, 2023 | odi.org | Samuel L. Sharp |Sara Pantuliano |Idayat Hassan |Sandra Pepera

On the face of it, the global outlook for democracy looks pretty bleak. Democratic norms are eroding all over the world. According to International IDEA, ‘half of the world’s democracies are in retreat’. In Tunisia we have seen President Saied dismiss parliament and re-write the constitution. In Hungry, President Orbán has packed the courts and attacked the press. And in the US, Trump refuses to accept the results of an election he lost, inciting an insurrection to overturn them.