Θα είχε ενδιαφέρον να γνωρίζαμε από τα δεδομένα του #ΚΗΜΔΗΣ και την #ΔΙΑΥΓΕΙΑ τι δαπανά το ελληνικό δημόσιο για υπηρεσίες συμβούλων.
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“If you are using #consultants, that means you have no #inhouse, #institutionalised #knowledge, because when these consultants walk away, whatever they know goes with them. This then makes you forever permanently dependent on consultants.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/31/uk-government-private-consultants-spending
‘Scandalous’ £3.4bn UK state spending on private consultants last year

New figures reveal that public bodies paid out at least 60% more to consultancies in 2023-24 than it did pre-pandemic

The Guardian
How fast can #system & #portfolio approaches be #institutionalised in the development sector? Check out my newly published piece about the ongoing developments, organisational perspectives, and collaborative experiments👇
https://medium.com/@undp.innovation/236088b699d9
Review of current system & portfolio practices in the development sector: Organizational perspectives and collaborative experiments

Building on interviews with colleagues in development organizations, donor & partner governments and foundations, this article explores the adoption of system and portfolio-based approaches in the…

Medium

Same in any monopoly, group loyalty trumps justice, or even fairness

“With a bit of distance from working in the #MetPoliceUK and becoming less #institutionalised, I realised there were a lot of things from my time that troubled me.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/09/real-happy-valley-writer-vilified-in-tweets-by-police

‘I’ve had death threats’: Real Happy Valley writer vilified in tweets by police

Former Met PC Alice Vinten says online abuse worse since publication of book about women in force that inspired BBC drama

The Guardian
Autistics Incarcerated: The dark underbelly of the NHS - Emergent Divergence

This evening, I took it upon myself to watch Channel 4's documentary on the abuse of Autistic people in psychiatric institutions. As I sit here reflecting on the way the Autistic participants were treated by those meant to care for them, I will confess that I have shed some tears of my own. I am

Emergent Divergence