This paper takes an updated look at the Education Reform Support series and attempts to consolidate many of its theories, frameworks,and operational guidelines. Ten years of experience have reconfirmed the ideas on which ERS was founded and have added a multitude of examples to show how strategically targeted and opportunistic support can move a reform agenda forward—instigating demand for change, promoting dialogue around and new insight into issues, leveraging implementation, or removing political and institutional barriers to success. Read the paper here.