The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank recently released a publication entitled “The Black Box of Governmental Learning, The Learning Spiral-A Concept to Organize Learning in Governments”. The publication aims to address the problem on how best to educate the government with lessons from the past.
Government is not known to be the best learner from past lessons and as a result, resources are wasted, services are undelivered, and most of all, the citizens, especially the poor, are denied of social, legal and economic protection. It is for this reason that the need to educate the government of these lessons has become more crucial than ever. WB identifies the reason why government seems to never ever learn, and this is said to be because learning in government settings is hard to execute and conceptualize, and hence, the term “black box”.
This book introduces a theory-based concept that has been applied successfully over the past decade in a number of conferences and events comprising civil servants and staff of government all over the world.
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