To End Poverty, Think like a Spy
To create robust analysis for poverty alleviation, development and security actors should break out of their silos and agree on intelligence sharing protocols. Paul Bisca notes in this paper for the
Brookings Institution that this would mean giving persons leading poverty-reduction projects, access to insights from confidential field reports from U.N. peacekeepers and diplomatic cables from the embassies of countries supporting these projects. Intelligence collection benefits from open sources, such as statistics from humanitarian agencies and reports by faith-based groups providing relief in conflict zones. Better insight into conditions in areas where projects are being considered, and into the profiles of allies and spoilers, would improve the quality of decision-making.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2019/03/11/to-end-poverty-think-like-a-spy/
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