Your search
Results 63 resources
-
This Think Piece describes social movements pursuing government accountability and the challenges and opportunities to supporting them.
-
All anti-corruption professionals looking to better understand the relationship between collective action and corruption should refer to these two comprehensive guides that the UN Global Compact published. The 2015 guide has modules that cover theoretical concepts, practical recommendations for undertaking CA initiatives, and multiple in-depth case studies of CA projects around the world.
-
On current trends, it will take decades or longer to bring basic services to the world’s most disadvantaged people. Meeting this challenge means recognising the political conditions that enable or obstruct development progress - a radical departure from the approach of the Millennium Development Goals.
-
Mercy Corps finds adaptive management is supported by four different but interconnected elements: Culture, People & Skills, Tools & Systems, and Enabling Environment. These elements are discussed in the context of one of Mercy Corps’ complex programmes in pastoral Ethiopia.
-
Albert Hirschman considered <i>Development Projects Observed</i> a natural sequel to his earlier work. As Hirschman put it to an old acquaintance at the World Bank, his previous books identified the inner and often hidden mechanisms of development sequences: “Having worked out a few basic hypotheses …, I could perhaps test them (and hit on some new ones) by looking at Bank-financed projects that have had enough time to give rise to such sequences.”¹ But as much as it appeared as the logical...
-
Certain international agencies propose that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) allows development to be reached more efficiently and quickly. While there are success stories galore, there is acknowledgement of not all investments in ICT bringing positive effects towards development. Following the Capabilities Approach, this paper discusses how the use of ICT can promote a more effective development by studying the case of Sudotec (association for technological and industrial...
-
Transnational multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) – voluntary partnerships between governments, civil society, and the private sector – are an increasingly prevalent strategy for promoting government responsiveness and accountability to citizens. While most transnational MSIs involve using voluntary standards to encourage socially and environmentally responsible private sector behavior, a handful of these initiatives – the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the...
-
Politics has become a central concern in development discourse, and yet the use of political analysis as a means for greater aid effectiveness remains limited and contested within development agencies. This article uses qualitative data from two governance “leaders” – the United Kingdom Department for International Development and the World Bank – to analyze the administrative hurdles facing the institutionalization of political analysis in aid bureaucracies. We find that programing,...
-
This report explores how genuine institutional change takes place in fragile and conflict-affected states reforms can be supported.
-
By subsidizing the costs of civic participation, the use of the Internet use is believed to stimulate participation but there are fears that intensive Internet use causes withdrawal from public life. This paper investigates the connection between the way individuals participate online and offline in authoritarian, low-income regimes, and the nature of eParticipation among citizens in authoritarian regimes such as Uganda. Based on personal interviews with 116 Internet users, the...
-
This book marries two fields that rarely converse with one another:deliberative democracy and development studies. The study ofdeliberation―which explores normative and practical questions aroundgroup-based decision making through discussion or debate―has emergedas a critical area of study over the past two decades. Concurrently, the fieldof development has seen a spurt of interest in community-led developmentand participation premised on the ability of groups to arrive at decisionsand...
-
In the first of a two-part blog piece, Ben Ramalingam, affiliate of the Overseas Development Institute / Institute of Development Studies, discusses the challenges of implementing innovation in to the development sector - from keeping expectations realistic to managing the innovation process and assessing impact and value.
-
In part two of his blog on the challenges facing development innovation, Ben Ramalingam suggests how we might take the ‘high road’ to bring about long-lasting and meaningful innovation in the sector.
-
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...
Explore
Theme
-
Sectors [+]
- Alternative Development (15)
- Citizen Engagement (5)
- Economic development (2)
- Environmental Management (1)
- Governance and Accountability (24)
- Health (1)
- Innovation (in Development) (6)
- Institutional Capacity & Change (1)
- Judicial systems (1)
- Knowledge to Practice (2)
- Locally driven development (1)
- NGOs (3)
- Organizational Change (1)
- Peace Building (1)
- Scaling up / Propagating (3)
- Social Accountability (25)
- Technology (in Development) (5)
- Adaptive Approaches [+] (22)
- Cases (4)
-
Development Actors Perspectives
(2)
- FCDO/DFID (UK) (1)
- World Bank (2)
-
Geography
(5)
-
Africa
(1)
-
Eastern Africa
(1)
- Kenya (1)
-
Eastern Africa
(1)
-
Asia
(4)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
- China (1)
-
Southern Asia
(2)
- Bangladesh (2)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
-
Africa
(1)
- MEL4 Adaptive Management (8)
- Practical (3)
Resource type
- Blog Post (5)
- Book (6)
- Book Section (6)
- Document (1)
- Journal Article (10)
- Magazine Article (1)
- Report (33)
- Thesis (1)