Governance

We work around the globe in countries including Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Romania, Sierra Leone, the United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe to increase government capacity, citizen participation, and jumpstart new government initiatives. The goal of 100-Day Challenges in governance is to transform public services and government ways of working to build equal, safe and just communities. Our work in governance has included accelerating economic growth, strengthening government strategic management capacities, combating corruption, and accelerating reform for a national pension system, and more.

Mexico

Over a four-year period (2018-2021), we designed and implemented nine state-wide 100-Day Challenges with a total of 20 frontline teams to increase the resolution of corruption cases and administrative corruption proceedings and to support the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption System (Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción, SNA). The SNA acts as a much-needed coordinating body for a multitude of anti-corruption institutions at all levels of government, including the state and national levels, to comprehensively prevent, detect, investigate, and sanction corruption.

Kenya

We helped launch a number of 100-Day Challenges in Kenya, initially focused on HIV/AIDS prevention and improving security in Nairobi back in 2003, coupled with a training program for local coaches. Hundreds of 100-Day Challenges have been launched in Kenya since 2004, in practically every sector where government services have been targeted for improvement. The Government of Kenya has received international recognition and numerous awards for their focus on service delivery. In many cases, the use of the 100-Day Challenge has been specifically cited as the strategy at the core of the transformation of Kenya’s public sector performance and some of the most dramatic results were achieved in the Health sector. The technique also helped improve the performance of 175 local authorities, 45 state corporations, and three public universities. Today, nearly 20 years later, our approach is still used by the Kenyan government.

Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, we worked to support a governance transformation process with The World Bank, building a culture of performance, accountability and results. In 2004, Sierra Leone had just emerged from a devastating civil war, and as part of the political reform agenda, nineteen Local Councils were elected to manage the local development agenda and to begin the process of decentralizing authority and resources to the local level.