Matt Clancy

@DRinnert @DFID_UK @PeteVowles @UKinTajikistan Honor is brilliant! You guys are lucky to have her.

En route to Dushanbe to welcome Honor Flanagan, incoming Head of @DFID_UK #CentralAsia. Also looking forward to engaging with our #globaldev partners in #Tajikistan this week, including on a regional visit from our Chief Economist's Office starting in TJ on Thursday

"Ultimately, it is a bank led by economists concerned principally with the economic returns to education." This is as inaccurate as saying that all teachers' unions are concerned principally with protecting jobs. Unfair and unhelpful. devex.com/news/opinion-t…

@J_NhanOreilly *furiously begins drafting email to Joseph*

Knowing it’s not just me makes feel a whole lot better. 🤦🏼‍♂️

JOB: The global education programme @CGDev is looking for a programme coordinator to be based at our Europe office in Westminster, London. Details here ⬇️ please share widely! …erforglobaldevelopment.applytojob.com/apply/JDM8a38z…

I spend a week in Corsica, and come back to discover someone's done my job for me. Great stuff @Fihi_maFihi and @jrossiter0. Now just need to figure out what to do about it all...

If Australian media feels empowered to do this kind of racist hit job on movie stars and royals, imagine how they’re treating people of colour around Oz every other goddam day.

I - and i cannot stress this enough - feel seen.

This is brutal.

Finally read this great piece - so many warning signs I never once saw in Latham. I also feel so lucky that I’ve spent my career being managed by talented, self-aware, considerate women and not the insecure shouty men that populate Latham’s world.

@JohnTeufelNYC @arieljrubin This is the content I’m here for.

@arieljrubin "My good-natured Italian-American wife rolls her eyes"

Big in Des Moines dsmpartnership.com/news-media/blo…

Between this and Alan Jones’ attack on Jacinda Arden, Australia is really leaning into our role as regional bully this week: thuggish, greedy and dumb.

@BenParker140 @markmuriithi @USAID @devex @CGDev @socfinuk @FT @BrookingsInst @WorldBank It’s not an either/or. If this possibly helps with better implementation AND is a way of drawing in other sources of financing for devt/hum purposes (esp when $ doesn’t flow as freely as it might’ve done once), then it’s probably worth trying.

@mattdclancy @markmuriithi @USAID @devex @CGDev @socfinuk @FT @BrookingsInst @WorldBank Why can’t a donor change its behaviour without paying an eye-watering premium to random investors?

Illustrating [Social/ Development/ Conservation/ Humanitarian] Impact Bonds with diagrams. A thread. Source: @USAID via @devex

@BenParker140 @markmuriithi @USAID @devex @CGDev @socfinuk @FT @BrookingsInst @WorldBank An outcome model can help free really great implementing orgs to crack on doing what they know they need to, not what micro-managing donors (like me!) fixate on.

@BenParker140 @markmuriithi @USAID @devex @CGDev @socfinuk @FT @BrookingsInst @WorldBank Super interesting article, Ben. Re: deferring payment, my donor experience with the education (devt) IB also suggests the model is a recognition that traditional “input” programmes are hamstrung by donor input obsession.

After Arron Banks picks a fight with Greta Thunberg on Twitter, Oxford Dictionary updates its definition of ‘hardman’.

@rrjparkin I am here for this. Strong work, Parkin.

Shitty iPhone 4 pic won’t do it justice but I’ve just absolutely crushed “impress the in-laws dinner” with three untried dishes from Ottenlenghi. Buzzing.

Come work for @CGDev in London! Two exciting jobs now open: ▪️ Policy Analyst | Commitment to Development Index ▪️ Senior Research Associate | UK & EU Dev Policy Both need econ & policy experience, data skills & right to work in the UK 🇬🇧 Closing 9 Sept …erforglobaldevelopment.applytojob.com/apply/

@DFID_RED_GCSD root and branch reform required.

N Wales tree politics: slashing weeds around spring tree seedlings; then whacking invasive Rhododendron - all to give yew, holly, ash, oak, beech, hawthorn a chance. This tree business is harder than The Guardian makes out...