b'P U LT E I N S T I T U T E forG L O B A L D E V E L O P M E N T 2020 - 2021A N N U A L R E V I E WThe Pulte Institute Policy andOur Policy ImpactPractice Visiting AssociatesThe Pulte Institute has made a conscious effort this year to trackUSAID, the Pulte Institute has evaluated our teams technical the potential impact and influence of our work on policy andreports, policy briefs, and academic journal articles that have programs in the areas we serve. Using a model developed byhad potential impact during the 2020-2021 academic year.Program 18 PUBLICATIONS WITH DEVELOPMENT IMPACT POTENTIALThe Pulte Institute Policy and Practice Visiting Associates programprogram. Applications for future associate positions are beingIMPLEMENTATION INFLUENCEbrings leading experts to Notre Dame to write evidence-based,accepted on a rolling basis and are encouraged from individuals, strategic publications on current policy issues. In 2020-2021,external organizations, and internal Notre Dame units. To learn2 4the Pulte Institute welcomed four new Visiting Associates to themore, visit pulte.nd.edu/VAP.publications resulting in policypublications influencing local or village MEET THE VISITING ASSOCIATES or programmatic change government, smaller NGOs, or universities3 3Alessandro FergnaniMichael Cooper publications integrating researchpublications influencing national Ph.D. Candidate, NUSFounder, Emergence outcomes or findings into a policy,government, multinational institutions, Business School Maximizing Returns on Data strategy document, or program design or USAID operating unitThe Futures of Work in SouthScience Investments: The Evolution Bend in 2035: A Participatoryof Data-Driven Decision-Making Foresight Study in Development 13 11Alessandro Fergnani conductsMichael Cooper is anpublications disseminating completedpublications influencing city government,research on corporate foresight, foresight methodologies, andevaluation expert that has led numerous evaluations andresearch and policy recommendations to multiple organizations or regions, the futures of work. Fergnanis policy brief presents six scenariosprovided technical expertise in the area of data-driven decision- stakeholders with potential impact or USAID program modificationsof the futures of work in South Bend that emphasize stress- making for leading international development stakeholders. point events and phenomena in the larger social, political,His research with the Pulte Institute seeks to identify policies, technological, and economic environment, with a time horizonprinciples, and practices for optimal utilization of data science of 15 years (2035). Susanne E. Jalbert, Ph.D. results in decision-making within international development.Influencing USAIDs long-term Rev. Fidelis A. Olokunboro Director of the Syria, Iraq, Yemen,Ph.D. Candidate at Notre Dame impact evaluation strategyand Afghanistan Regional BusinessSubsistence Rights as Basic Human Unit, Chemonics International Rights: The Violence of Poverty and Gender & Politics: Maintainingthe Nigerian ExampleWomens Meaningful ParticipationRev. Fidelis Olokunboro conductsDanice Brown Guzmn, associateco-author of ERIEs Guide for Planning Long-term Impact in Afghanistan research which looks at reducingdirector of evidence & learning, leadsEvaluations, which uses ERIEs expertise to outline best practices Dr. Jalbert is a gender equity advocate,poverty and inequality through a theologized rights-basedthe Pulte Institutes partnership infor developing and implementing LTIEs.The document, which economic development activist, and a womens rights politicalapproach. Using Nigeria as a case study, Father Fidelis investigatesthe Expanding the Reach of Impactwas produced in 2018, was published on USAIDs Learning strategist. Her work with the Pulte Institute calls on thethe reality of poverty, its impacts on the human dignity of theEvaluation (ERIE) consortium.Lab website, and led to the inclusion of ex-post evaluations in international community to advocate for the constitutionalpoor, and how it catalyzes inequality. As an accompaniment toERIE is an approach to conductingUSAIDs key guidance document on evaluations (ADS 201). protections of human rights of all Afghan people, particularlyhis policy brief, Father Fidelis hosted a 4-day Catholic economicretrospective long-term impactUSAID now recommends the use of ex-post evaluations for women. summit for 150 people in his home country of Nigeria. evaluations (LTIE) of completedstudies of project sustainability across the globe. aid interventions. Guzmn was a 22 23'