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 wrote the book Yensore programme Our experiences in Natural Resources Sector in Ghana on ... 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 The Private Sector and Climate Change Adaptation was written for civil society about how to engage the private sector in climate change adaptation initiatives ... 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
The Book Sprint for International IDEA and HDS finished up on Friday afternoon with the book Dialogues on Voluntary Codes of Conduct for Political Parties in Elections. During five days, six participants from IDEA, HSD, NIMD and the Center for ... read more
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
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