The UK Department for International Development's (DFID) recent Inclusive Growth Diagnostics highlighted that in many DFID priority countries, energy is a key constraint to economic growth. Energy reform is highly political, and any attempts to support sector reform without an understanding of the domestic and international political landscape are likely to fail. This case study seeks to draw out key success factors in securing political buy in and shares examples of how tactics can be applied to secure and then maintain commitment.
Case study: Securing political commitment to programming
This work was carried out under the Infrastructure and Cities for Economic Development (ICED) facility.
ICED supported DFID country offices, central teams and ODA-spending Other Government Departments to deliver DFID’s Economic Development Strategy by scaling up programming and investment in infrastructure and cities. It operated between February 2016 and July 2019.
