¶ The Pulte Institute for Global Development |
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| 3150 Jenkins Nanovic Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 pulte.nd.edu Contact: Paul Perrin, pperrin@nd.edu |
Education and Research | |
| Role(s) |
The Pulte Institute for Global Development — an integral part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame — combines the existing world-class teaching and research faculty of Notre Dame with a dedicated staff of experienced international development professionals, administrators, and researchers in order to address global poverty and inequality through policy, practice, and partnership. The Pulte Institute cuts across academic fields to produce multidisciplinary knowledge on complex development challenges in areas related to: Sustainability; Humanitarianism; Effective States and Development; Business in Development; and Global Health. The Institute seeks to work creatively and collaboratively with faculty, researchers, and students at the Keough School of Global Affairs, and across the University of Notre Dame, in building a reputation for excellence on each of these themes. Additionally, we maximize our impact through partnership with government agencies, non-governmental agencies, humanitarian organizations, foundations, individual donors, and private corporations in the U.S. and overseas. |
| Mission | The Pulte Institute’s vision is to enhance human dignity, equity, and well-being for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations by addressing today’s most compelling global issues. Mission: The Pulte Institute works to address global poverty and inequality through policy, practice, and partnership. |
| History |
The Pulte Institute for Global Development was established in 2012 as the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development. Led by Notre Dame Research, it was created to be a primary University contact point with potential partners and funding agencies outside of Notre Dame and in the larger development community within the United States and around the world. The Institute was also designed to serve the University’s institutes, centers, and programs by providing monitoring and evaluation, assessments, training, and strategic planning support for global development projects. The Institute was also tasked with providing information, advice, and assistance in identifying and obtaining international contract and grant funds from government or private agencies to contribute to global development. Perhaps most importantly, the Pulte Institute was designed to help the University live up to Fr. Edward Sorin's original mission of making the University a "powerful force for good." Since its founding, the Institute has proven to be an impactful new addition to the Notre Dame family of international-focused units. It helped grow the University’s research portfolio with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from no active USAID grants in 2012 to over 16 in 2017. By 2015, "NDIGD" (now the Pulte Institute) was a part of approximately half of all of the University's grants and contracts related to international development. The Pulte Institute has also successfully helped connect the University with new partners and strengthen ties with existing partners. The Initiative has helped develop 10 private sector partnerships to provide research and education and help improve lives in developing countries, including partnerships with Accenture, HP, IBM Corporation, Coca-Cola, Verizon, GE, Bisk Education, Capsim, VWR, and Lenovo. Additionally, the Pulte Institute (formerly NDIGD) was awarded the first-ever research grants to the University from numerous organizations, including the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Blue Planet Network, Project Concern International, International Justice Mission, FHI360, and others. |
| Org | 23 staff who provide administrative, program management, educational fundraising, communications, and research support 4 faculty and one post-doctoral research associate, including the Institute Director 115 faculty fellows making up an interdisciplinary network of scholars from institutions across the country who bring expertise and capacity to the Pulte Institute’s projects 40 Notre Dame undergraduate and graduate students supporting Pulte Institute operations and research Leadership: • Raymond Offenheiser, William J Pulte Institute Director and Keough School Professor of the Practice • Michael Sweikar, Pulte Institute Founder, Executive Director, and Keough School Assistant Professor of the Practice • Tom Purekal, Program Director, Innovation in Practice Division • Melissa Paulsen, Associate Director over Entrepreneurship and Education Programs • Dr. Paul Perrin, Evidence and Learning Director and Keough School Associate Professor of the Practice |
| Board | University of Notre Dame Board of Trustees: https://www.nd.edu/about/leadership/trustees/ |
| Finance | Funding sources include private and government grants, individual donations, and endowment payouts. |
| Data Source | The Indiana Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) database project comprises an Indicator Registry that contains the definitions and metadata for each of the relevant SDG indicators that have been officially defined at the global level. The indicator registry serves as the basis for a database that has extracted data from existing public data sources for the state of Indiana that allows the team to calculate the SDG indicators as defined. In addition to the indicator data itself, we have captured metadata around each standard indicator for which data was available (particularly at the county level or lower), including the relevant variables, the granularity of the data in terms of administrative level of detail, the frequency of data collection, the data steward, and the front-end and back-end links to the dataset. The intent is to allow a comparative look at the data across time and between counties or sub-counties around performance against the SDGs. We are currently building a staging database that is designed to host the extracted data for each of the indicators in the registry along with a suite of technology solutions that will meet the defined parameters for the staging database. |
| Data Access | Data goes through a process including a data sharing agreement and security review. Notre Dame Research reviews and approves all Data Sharing Agreements with external partners. We are exploring options in the future to make data available in a public-facing portal so that users can access the data more easily. |
| Tech Capabilities | Notre Dame has recently adopted a HIPAA-compatible environment. Notre Dame IT support staff and CRC scientists can help researchers store and access data. |
| Projects |
The Pulte Institute implements a number of projects across the world. The Institute’s active and past project information can be accessed at https://pulte.nd.edu/projects/ The data described here is derived from the Indiana Sustainable Development Goals Database Project. Recognizing a need for a global blueprint for global development efforts, the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – were codified in the United Nations Millennium Declaration in the year 2000. Over the course of the subsequent 15 years, the MDGs in many ways were successful in helping to shape an international development agenda between the years 2000 and 2015, for which there is significant evidence of improvement globally across the goals. Nevertheless, one of the key criticisms of the MDGs were that they were largely focused the lens on “developing” nations, thus failing to recognize the vulnerabilities and inequities that continue to persist among many populations living in “developed” countries. It was in this context that the next generation of international goals--the Sustainable Development Goals--were adopted worldwide beginning in 2016. As with the MDGs, the SDGs identify goals--expanding the number to 17--and targets for reducing vulnerability and increasing wellbeing and equity across the world. Unlike the MDGs, the SDGs are explicitly designed to be universal in scope irrespective of the state of development of a given country. Nevertheless, many citizens of developed countries, including the various constituent states comprising the USA, are unaware of the existence of these goals, let alone the targets they espouse. As a university with both domestic and global focus and influence, the University of Notre Dame seeks to demonstrate its commitment to the universality of the SDGs as well as its commitment to its home state of Indiana by launching a project to improve state-level availability of data related to social and environmental performance against the SDGs. In so doing, the University hopes to increase awareness and commitment to achieving the SDGs within our borders while also serving as a potential model for other states and countries to follow if successful. |
| Future Focus | The Pulte Institute 2019-2024 Strategic Plan is available online at https://pulte.nd.edu/about/history-strategic-plan/ |
| Talent Development |
Pulte Institute faculty and staff are an important part of the Keough School of Global Affairs and other academic entities on campus, wherein they teach courses, advise and otherwise mentor students, organize academic events, and provide lectures and other speeches across campus. Through our academic engagement, we train students and partners in global development in how to link policy, practice, and research. The Pulte Institute actively seeks to employ a number of undergraduate and graduate students every year on a wide variety of our policy, practice, and research projects. |
| Data Sharing Agreements | N/A |
| Programs/ Publications | Journal publications: https://pulte.nd.edu/research-policy/publications/ News: https://pulte.nd.edu/news-and-highlights/ |
| Resources | Pulte Institute partners: https://pulte.nd.edu/partnership-support/ Pulte Institute Opportunities: https://pulte.nd.edu/opportunities/ |