An important advantage of EfD is its infrastructure for cultivating cross-country research and policy-analysis collaboration, especially South-South cooperative work. EfD researchers work in cross-country teams to produce high-impact policy research for several countries, drawing on each other’s perspectives and experiences. EfD’s Collaborative Programs uniquely foster this kind of highly-applied international collaborative research. These programs also provide opportunities to deploy expertise from numerous centers in the network, greatly broadening the range of expertise available for specific policy challenges. In addition, being a network with similar policy interaction processes at each center, EfD presents opportunities for “copycat policy transfers”; essentially, lessons from one center’s policy interaction can be adapted and applied to analogous situations at other centers.
The Collaborative Program Committee governs the development of EfD collaborative programs. The members can be seen here.
Learn more about our collaborative programs here: