Ideas in public
Reflections on policy, development, and professional experience
This is where I translate research and implementation experience into accessible arguments for policymakers, researchers, practitioners, students, and the wider development community.
Published essays
Latest writing
Long-form reflections on public policy, development practice, applied research, climate resilience, and the institutions that connect evidence to action.
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Beyond Toolkits: Building Policy Capability from Within Government
Building policy capability inside government required careful diagnosis, practical tools, continuous partnership and sustained investment in the officials who would use them.
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Making Climate Finance Work for Vulnerable Countries
As climate finance grows, this personal reflection follows the institutional journey from national priorities to financed resilience and considers how stronger country capability and respectful partnerships can improve access.
Current questions
Topics I’m currently exploring
Women’s education and labour-market opportunity; implementation capability in large-scale fieldwork; and the institutional foundations of evidence-informed policy.
Follow the research in the meantime
The Publications page contains completed reports, chapters, evaluation outputs, and current working papers. If one of the topics above connects with your work, I would be glad to compare notes.
Junior Abdul-Wahab 