Post by Carole Rizkallah Alsharabati

Thanks Antoine Kallab for letting me crash your classroom at AUB! And huge thanks to Léa Ghanem Jad Hneiny who didn't just help present, they built this story in the field. Most of what I shared, they lived first. Spent an hour with the GEOL 330AA students on the decisive stage of policymaking: implementation. Five notes from practice at Siren Associates : https://lnkd.in/dHXdE5TS 1. The law is rarely the bottleneck. A workflow, a dashboard and a daring minister unlock more than a decade of drafting ever did. 2. Strategy is a posture, not a document. Decide what you will not do. Sequence ruthlessly. Protect a few measurable wins in the first 90 days. 3. Integrity is an operating choice. Transparent data and public dashboards are the cheapest enforcement mechanism a weak state has. 4. Pushback is a signal, not a setback. When resistance organizes, you're close to something that matters. 5. Coalitions beat champions. Political sponsor, technical core, civil-society echo, external validator. Single reformers get isolated. Intent is cheap. Design is necessary. Implementation is the job. And to the students: thanks for the sharp queations, keep that energy. The system needs it! \#PublicPolicy #Implementation #Governance #AUB Siren Associates Siren Analytics