Impact means different things to different people. Donors, governments, non-profits, and communities often have different views on how to define the impact of a development intervention. A development intervention has different impacts on collaborating stakeholders, even if those are not tracked or measured. Most efforts at measuring impacts tend to ‘blur’ it with project evaluation. There is an emerging concurrence that the impact measurement is different from the evaluation.

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On 15 November we proudly announced three ASEF Summer University 23 Hackathon winners for the country categories Bangladesh, India and Pakistan as well as the Audience Award. Over 500 people joined our online voting.

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The ASEFSU23 consisted of 3 main programme elements. In the pre-hack Phase (11-29 October 2021): "Ideation, including Challenge definition, knowledge building & stakeholder engagement", all participants undertook training and attended workshops to deepen their understanding of the theme of Sustainable Cities and Urbanisation, as well as provide them with an outlook on Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

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In this issue we feature 10 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

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This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.

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