USAID Power Africa Program has produced a series of three books with Book Sprints – called the ‘Understanding Series’ – since 2015, and through the experience have discovered a new way to tackle policy development in their work. A ... read more
We are in the middle of our first Book Sprint for Publish What You Pay an international coalition of civil society organisations working to ensure transparency and accountability in oil, gas and mining. Participants are from eight countries and all PWYP members ... read more
The handbook “Rethinking International Investment. Back to basics” was finalized last Friday with great excitement of participants. The Columbia Centre on Sustainable Investment gathered for the book Sprint talented investment law and policy experts from the African International Law Centre, ... read more
Three days ago, a new Book Sprint started surrounded by woods and farmland in the Waterfront of the Thomphson and Crox Creeks of Kent Island, in Maryland. On the initiative of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, a group of ... read more
As Mandela said: “it always seems impossible until it’s done”. And that was the group feeling after a hectic week of collaborative writing. The 15 participants manage to write a book from A to Z on their the Yensore Programme ... read more
We are starting our second Book Sprints day in the city of Takoradi, Western Region of Ghana. The initiative funded by Care Denmark aims to document the Yensore Programme which is implemented by CARE Ghana in partnership with Civic Response, ... read more
The third Book Sprint in the series of Understanding Power Projects is underway in Cape Town. Sixteen experts from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ivory Coast, USA, UK, and Seychelles write a handbook on Power Project Procurement. As in the ... read more
The book “Understanding Power Project Procurement” was recently launched by U.S. General Counsel Peter B. Davidson. It is the third in a series of Power Africa handbooks that was written in a Book Sprint in September 2017. The sprint was hosted by the Commercial Law ... read more
Yesterday was the final day of the epic dual-language Sprint in Accra, Ghana. The policy paper written for civil society about how to engage the private sector in climate change adaptation initiatives was headed by IBIS Ghana, ABANTU for Development, ... read more
Yesterday we started our first ever Book Sprint in two languages. Oxfam Ibis has gathered a group of half English-speaking and half French-speaking participants to write a policy brief about financing climate adaptation through the engagement of the private sector. ... read more
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