Your search
Results 8 resources
-
How and to what degree is the World Bank putting its new institutional citizen engagement (CE) commitments into practice? This question guides an independent assessment that the Accountability Research Center (ARC) at American University has undertaken as part of the Institute of Development Studies-led Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) research programme’s investigation into how external actors can best support local processes of and conditions for empowerment and...
-
This case study describes how LASER has gone about enabling systemic change and sustainable uptake of reforms that address complex institutional problems in Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somaliland and Uganda. In each of these countries LASER has designed-in a sustainable approach from the start based on: (i) local ownership and leadership of reforms based on developing country (rather than donor) priorities; (ii) use of country (rather than donor programme) systems; and (iii) an...
-
Marginalised groups and their allies can, and do, use the law and justice systems, including public interest litigation, to improve their access to rights, goods and services. Yet there is no automatic link between legal action and improved outcomes for poor people. Where some minimum conditions are met – a progressive legal framework, a sympathetic judiciary and legal advocacy organisation – pro-poor litigation is a potential tool in disputes over rights and resources. But concrete...
-
Despite a swathe of critiques of logframes and other blueprint approaches to development over the last 30 years, most aid infrastructure continues to concentrate on the design and subsequent implementation of closed models. This article does not propose an alternative to blueprints, but challenges the inflexibility of their implementation, which is inadequate given the complex nature of social change. It proposes a supplementary management and learning approach which enables implementers to...
Explore
Theme
- Cases
-
Geography
-
Asia
-
Southern Asia
- Afghanistan (1)
- Bangladesh (4)
- India (1)
- Nepal (3)
- Pakistan (2)
-
South-eastern Asia
(2)
- Myanmar (2)
-
Southern Asia
-
Africa
(3)
-
Eastern Africa
(2)
- Kenya (1)
- Mozambique (1)
- Rwanda (1)
- Somaliland (1)
- Tanzania (1)
- Uganda (1)
-
West Africa
(3)
- Nigeria (2)
- Sierra Leone (1)
-
Eastern Africa
(2)
-
Asia
-
Adaptive Approaches [+]
(5)
- Adaptive Management (4)
-
Other sectors
(1)
- Sport (1)
- TWP (Thinking & Working Politically) (1)
-
Development Actors Perspectives
(2)
- FCDO/DFID (UK) (1)
- World Bank (1)
- MEL4 Adaptive Management (1)
- Sectors [+] (5)
Resource type
- Journal Article (1)
- Report (7)