Today it’s our second day of a new Book Sprint in the charming city of Bern, the capital of Switzerland. The book is an initiative led by the Human Security Department of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (HDS) ... read more
This week, the World Bank invited eleven experts of open contracting and mining contracts as well as a Book Sprints facilitator to Kent Island in Maryland. In three and a half days they set out to collaboratively design a tool ... read more
The latest Book Sprint, now taking place in Maryland brings together a group of experts organised by the US Energy Association and the Department of Energy to create a handbook for African governments wanting to set up natural gas development ... read more
After four days we completed the Book Sprint for the Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership Operations Manual, and had some delicious ice cream to celebrate! Phil Karp, Lead Knowledge Management Officer at the World Bank who organized both the first and ... read more
This week, the Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) invited us to facilitate their second Book Sprint. A year ago we facilitated a Book Sprint for the TDLC operations manual, and now a new partnership program with the Government of Japan ... read more
The Responsible Data in Development Handbook that was the result of a Book Sprint in 2014 with the engine room recently received a beautiful make-over including its own website.
After a five-day Book Sprint, a group of ten contributors from GIZ finished the book Treasure Hunt – How Good Financial Governance can support resource-endowed countries in achieving the SDGs. “Treasure Hunt, a term referring to both the gold digger atmosphere ... read more
GIZ (Germany’s agency for international development cooperation) has been doing extensive work on good financial governance as well as on improving governance in the extractive sector, but consolidating these two areas is still to be done. Ten experts from the ... read more
The Book Sprint on Understanding Power Project Financing finished last Friday. The handbook brings light and offers a comprehensive guidance to governments and investors on how to drive investment into Power Projects in both under-served power markets in developing countries ... read more
At the Palmeraie area, the green lung of Marrakech, yesterday started the second Book Sprint organised together with USAID’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) and the African Legal Support Facility. The group is writing the second part of the PPA handbook ... read more
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