Development Entrepreneurs

  Effective leaders - of business enterprises, development organizations, civil society organizations, etc - develop and execute plans at three levels: strategic, tactical, and operational.   Strategic plans define the most important directions for a whole organization over the long term (example: to be a thought leader in property rights in the Philippines, within the next three years).  It is grounded on the organization’s sense of purpose - what it does, who it serves, how it excels.  The strategic plan takes into consideration current internal and external conditions and trends. Tactical plans describe how parts of the organization contribute to strategic plans.  These are short-term: one year or less.  A tactic for “becoming a thought leader in property rights” could be “starting a series of videos on property rights”.  This is exactly what our friends at the Foundation for Economic Freedom are doing - they are regularly producing “Usapang Lupa...

  Rey Cordeniullo with a colleague Political feasibility is the probability that a reform would be acceptable.  Acceptable to whom? There is an idea that reforms need to be acceptable to policy-makers - only.  Once policy-makers officially adopt the appropriate policy, everybody would comply with it, and the reform would be achieved. Certainly there are policies that need only the approval of Congress and the Senate - and then implementation follows.  My guess is that these are economic and finance-related policies like the “Sin Tax” law, and my other guess is that these are the kinds of policies that are implemented by a national government agency. And then there are reforms for which laws have been passed, but implementation leaves much to be desired.  An example is the provision in the Reproductive Health Law that shays teenagers should have access to birth control information and resources.  This has not happened broadly.  It might be because of th...