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Dec 2023 Navigating everyday leadership
Sep 2023 Co-producing local public goods in rural Solomon Islands: Evidence from Malaita
Aug 2023 “This is our right”: social protection and fairness in Timor-Leste
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Developmental Leadership Program (DLP)

We are an international research initiative that explores how leadership, power and political processes drive or block successful development.

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Development Outcomes

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How Change Happens

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Leadership Pathways

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Perceptions of Leadership

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Supporting Leadership

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Equality and Inclusion

Featured content

Navigating everyday leadership
Publication Dec 2023

Navigating everyday leadership

House on with a thatched roof on stilts in water
Publication Sep 2023

Co-producing local public goods in rural Solomon Islands: Evidence from Malaita

coastline with beach, sea, sky and boats, Timor-Leste
Publication Aug 2023

“This is our right”: social protection and fairness in Timor-Leste

Water and island with trees and huts, Vanuatu
Opinion Jul 2023

Understanding accountability ecosystems in the Pacific: political, context-specific and strategic

Landscape shot with rows of brightly coloured, single storey houses on a hillside
Publication Jun 2023

(Re-)Constructing pathways for grassroots Sri Lankan women’s political participation: Tools for valuing the ‘feminine’ and the ‘local’

Boats on shore
Publication Jun 2023

Seeing like a regionalist: The dilemmas of inter-governmental co-operation in the Blue Pacific

South Fly, Papua New Guinea
Publication May 2023

Leadership beyond state limits: Women’s leadership in Papua New Guinea

PNG Flag South Fly
Publication May 2023

Leadership beyond state limits in Papua New Guinea – Executive summary

South Fly, Papua New Guinea
Publication May 2023

Leadership beyond state limits: Case studies from Papua New Guinea

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