TY - JOUR TI - Reading the Local Context: A Causal Chain Approach to Social Accountability AU - Joshi, Anuradha T2 - IDS Bulletin AB - There is a general consensus that ‘context’ matters for development outcomes, yet we have little understanding of how exactly ‘context’ affects outcomes. This article focuses on the question of ‘context’ in social accountability (SA) initiatives by separating macro- and micro-contextual factors. On the macro side (country level), accountability processes need to take into account broad factors such as national histories of citizen–state engagement. On the micro side, local factors can drive the extent to which SA initiatives are successful, even within otherwise broadly similar national contexts. The article outlines the basic components of accountability and proposes a ‘causal chain'strategy to better understand the micro-context. This would allow existing evidence to be reorganised to assess the promise of existing and new initiatives by deconstructing the various mini-causal pathways (i.e. in the micro-context) and understanding the contextual conditions that make them work. DA - 2014/09/01/ PY - 2014 DO - 10.1111/1759-5436.12101 DP - Wiley Online Library VL - 45 IS - 5 SP - 23 EP - 35 J2 - IDS Bulletin LA - en SN - 1759-5436 ST - Reading the Local Context UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1759-5436.12101/abstract Y2 - 2016/09/15/16:28:40 KW - IMPORTANT ER - TY - JOUR TI - Introduction - Localising Governance: An Outlook on Research and Policy AU - Joshi, Anuradha AU - Schultze-Kraft, Markus T2 - IDS Bulletin DA - 2014/09// PY - 2014 DO - 10.1111/1759-5436.12099 DP - CrossRef VL - 45 IS - 5 SP - 1 EP - 8 LA - en SN - 02655012 ST - Introduction - Localising Governance UR - http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/1759-5436.12099 Y2 - 2016/04/21/11:32:50 ER - TY - RPRT TI - Governance Diaries: An Approach to Governance Research from the Ground Up AU - Loureiro, Miguel AU - Joshi, Anuradha AU - Barnes, Katrina AU - Chaimite, Egídio AB - Research on empowerment and accountability tends to focus on collective action and its potential for empowering citizens undertaking the action and on achieving state accountability. In fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings (FCVAS) collective action is rare and risky. So how do citizens, particularly the chronically poor and most marginalised, interact and make claims on the different public authorities that exist in these settings, and how do these interactions contribute to citizens’ sense of empowerment and accountability? Given the current agenda of ‘leave no one behind’, an understanding of how such populations interact with public authorities to meet their governance needs can help identify the constraints to achieving development for all in these challenging settings. We developed ‘governance diaries,’ a cross between a panel survey and multi-sited ethnographies, as an iterative approach to capture their experiences around governance issues over time. We explain here how this approach works, and the challenges and opportunities it offers for research. CY - Brighton DA - 2020/02/14/ PY - 2020 DP - opendocs.ids.ac.uk LA - en PB - IDS ST - Governance Diaries UR - https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/15119 Y2 - 2020/10/01/11:01:01 ER - TY - RPRT TI - Understanding Governance from the Margins: What Does It Mean In Practice? AU - Barnes, Katrina, Barnes, Katrina AU - Anderson, Colin AU - de Chassy, Stephanie AU - Ahmed, Affaf AU - Ali, Mudabbir AU - Aung, Myo Min AU - Chaimite, Egidio AU - Joshi, Anuradha AU - Khan, Danyal AU - Loureiro, Miguel AU - Posse, Lucio AU - Rowlands, Jo AU - Shankland, Alex AU - Wazir, Rizwan AB - What does governance look like ‘from below’ – from the perspectives of poor and marginalised households? How do patterns of conflict affect that? These were the questions at the heart of the Governance at the Margins research project. Over three years from 2017-2020 we worked to explore this through in-depth study in conflict-affected areas of Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan. Our research teams interviewed the same people regularly over that time, finding out how they resolved problems and interacted with authorities. In this paper we connect what we found to the realities and complexities of development practice, drawing on the input of 20 experienced practitioners working in bilateral and multilateral development agencies and international NGOs, who generously gave their time to help us think through the practical implications of our wealth of findings. CY - Brighton DA - 2021/11/29/ PY - 2021 DP - DOI.org (Crossref) PB - Institute of Development Studies (IDS) ST - Understanding Governance from the Margins UR - https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16975 Y2 - 2022/01/11/09:43:44 ER -