Welcome to The Policy Nerd podcast by the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab. This is the place where top thinkers come to talk concrete data and debate policy solutions that would reset us along a more equitable and smarter path.
This episode is concerned with the tough but critical topic of government capacities and the role of the public sector in steering us through these times of crises.
Today the guest expert is Charles Landry, author and current president of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival.
The host is UNESCO’s Iulia Sevciuc.
Together they discuss how the public sector has been weakened from within through consistent reduction in its capacities and expertise. Cuts in analytical, foresight and strategic entities have not gone unfelt in crises. Under pressure to deliver, the public sector has been increasingly reaching to the market and outsourcing work. Spending and over-reliance on external consultants have, expectedly, mounted. Equally important is that such a trend has infantalized the public sector and put it on an unequal footing – through imbalanced access to intellectual resources and investments – with external consultants. Are there ways out? Find out in this episode.
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Charles Landry is president of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival.
Iulia Sevciuc is UNESCO’s lead on inclusive policies and data-driven policy change. Prior to this appointment, Iulia worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on similar agendas.
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