Bhubaneswar: July 21: The government of Odisha has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) on 21st July 2023 to get advisory support on various domains such as strategy development, delivery, and implementation, and strategic communications.
As per the communication from the government side, ‘TBI will provide advisory support to the government to enable it to successfully deliver on its overall economic agenda’.
Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, TBI is helmed by Former Prime Minister of the UK, Mr. Tony Blair, and greatly benefits from his vast experience, expertise, and network. It works in 45+ countries to help governments turn ideas into reality.
TBI helps leaders by advising on strategy, policy, and delivery, and by unlocking the power of technology across all three. Its domains of specialization include governance, foreign policy, investments, infrastructure and cities, climate and energy, and human capital. Through interventions in these areas, the organization aims to help build more open, inclusive, and prosperous societies for people everywhere.
The collaboration, a non-commercial project, involves strategy development support, delivery and implementation support, and strategic communications support. Under these support initiatives, TBI will undertake a range of activities such as current-state analysis, external benchmarking, roadmap design, capacity development, effective communication of core reforms to enhance adoption, and many others.
These initiatives, coupled with TBI’s expertise in leveraging insights from various public and private stakeholders, are expected to further catalyze Odisha’s ongoing transformation.
On this occasion, Minister of Electronics, Information Technology, Sports and Youth Services & Home, Govt of Odisha Tusharkanti Behera, Chief Secretary, Pradeep Kumar Jena, Development Commissioner-cum ACS, Smt. Anu Garg, Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, Deo Ranjan Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary, Finance Vishal Kumar Dev, Principal Secretary, RD, Information and Public Relations Department Sanjay Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary, E&IT Manoj Kumar Mishra were present on the occasion.
MoU was signed by the Special Secretary, E&IT Department, Odisha Manas Ranjan Panda, and Vivek Agarwal, Country Director, India of Tony Blair Institute of Global Change (TBI). Additional Secretary E&IT Department Manoj Kumar Pattnaik proposed the vote of thanks.
