Towards a Development Entrepreneurship Community of Practice

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After three workshops on Development Entrepreneurship (held in Quezon City, Davao, and Cebu City), we have gathered plenty of feedback from participants, and so there's much to think about.

There are practical ideas for improving the workshop, like spending more time for introductions and small-group work, samples of filled-up Tools, guide questions for writing the Theory of Change, etc.

Our participants included development professionals, some funders, and members of the academe.  There's been much discussion about how funders can support the DE approach given their traditional desire for certainty, which they try to enforce with deliverables and timetables.  This reflects the dialogue that's going on with the global development community, as all actors find their footing with adaptive development strategies.

Two questions from participants that resonate with me are a) will the DE approach still be useful if policy is not the problem?, and b) can the DE approach apply to sub-national reforms?

Both questions stems from the definition of Development Entrepreneurship as a different approach to policy reform.  Many participants to our workshops have noted that oftentimes in this country there is a gap between policy and implementation.  When the right policies are in place but the concerned agencies are not implementing them, can the situation be remedied by still another policy? Or can the DE approach lead to other kinds of reforms, not necessarily having to do with policy?

The emphasis on scalability of reforms is demonstrated in case studies that involved nation-wide policies.  Some participants have wondered whether this means that Development Entrepreneurship can only be practiced by people who have access to national policy makers.   (I think it’s just because the folks who worked on DE reforms, thus far, are playing on the national stage). There’s room, I’m sure, for DE work at the Regional, Provincial and other sub-national levels.


Hopefully we will get a chance to discuss these and other questions as we build a community of practice around Development Entrepreneurship.

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