State of the State Initiative
Launched in Spring 2016, ISE’s State of the State Initiative (SoS) aims to reinvigorate a collective agenda on state effectiveness by assessing emerging global trends, building on the lessons of the last decade of reform and state-building, and exploring the ‘how-to’ of making the state more effective and legitimate. The Initiative brings together leading reformers and thought leaders from both the public and private sector and many different regions to assess and design strategies to tackle challenges to reform and development, and explore how the international community can support leaders in closing the sovereignty gap. Read more.