Action for Empowerment and Accountability Programme: Recent submissions
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Sound of One Hand Clapping: Information Disclosure for Social and Political Action for Accountability in Extractive Governance in Mozambique
(IDS, 2019-01-28)Corruption through opaque public contracts costs Africa billions of dollars in revenue loss annually. Globally, initiatives to address this have centred on information disclosure (ID) but under what conditions does it work ... -
Beyond Information Disclosure to Achieve Accountability in the Extractive Sector
(IDS, 2019-01-28)Corruption through opaque public contracts costs Africa billions of revenue loss annually. Initiatives around the world have consequently concentrated on information disclosure (ID) as a means to address this problem. But ... -
Seeking Accountability, Nurturing Empowerment: Lessons from the BBOG’s Movement in Nigeria
(Partnership for Social and Governance Research (PASGR), 2018-12)Boko Haram’s brutal abduction of 276 secondary school girls from Chibok, Northeast Nigeria in April 2014 was the catalyst for the formation of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement (BBOG). The incident was just one among several ... -
Moving Beyond the Binary: Gender-based Activism in Pakistan
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)This article challenges the binary framework within which women in Pakistan have been viewed, by political actors, the state, and more broadly as well, as either ‘secular/feminist/godless/Westernised’ or ‘authentic/ Isl ... -
Culture/ Religion/ Tradition vs Modern/ Secular/ Foreign
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)This article examines the binary of culture/religion/tradition and modern/secular/foreign and its impact on women’s human rights struggles in particular in northern Nigeria. This binary is commonly perpetuated by state and ... -
Travelling Critique: Anti-imperialism, Gender and Rights Discourses
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)The use and abuse of rights-based approaches to furthering gender justice has been the subject of much debate and contestation in feminist scholarship. This paper engages with the feminist anti-imperialist critique of ... -
The Pitfalls of Disentangling Women's Agency from Accountability for Gender Equality Outcomes
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)The representation of Middle Eastern women in Western scholarship in particular has been critiqued in post colonialist and feminist scholarship for its racist underpinnings embedded in broader colonialist constructs. This ... -
Women, Feminism and Politics in Post Revolution Tunisia
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)During periods of flux generated by Tunisia's transition to democracy, all classes of women found the ‘political opportunities’ to push for change even if they did not necessarily share the same ambition or dream. The ... -
Challenging Binaries to Promote Women's Equality
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)In this issue we are calling for a new interpretive framework that recognises the multiple genealogies that have contributed to binary constructs of the Western/secular versus the authentic/religious; takes into account ... -
Expressões alternativas das vozes dos cidadãos: Música e comentário social em Moçambique
(Kaleidoscopio, 2018-12)O estudo “Expressões Alternativas das Vozes do Cidadãos: Música e Comentário Social” foi realizado no âmbito do programa de pesquisa internacional Acção para o Empoderamento e Responsabilização Social (A4EA). Este programa ... -
Women in Politics: Gaining Ground for Progressive Outcomes in Pakistan
(IDS, 2018-11)This paper is an analysis of findings from a study of women’s political voice in Pakistan under the A4EA Research Programme. It is based on mixed methods, drawing together archival and secondary sources, qualitative ... -
Binary Framings, Islam and Struggle for Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)In this paper, I investigate how binary framings of women’s identity have influenced struggles for women’s rights and the interpretations of the relationship between Islam and women’s empowerment in Bangladesh. These binary ... -
Adaptive Programming in Fragile, Conflict and Violence-Affected Settings. What Works and Under What Conditions? The Case of PERL, Nigeria
(Itad, 2018-11-26)This paper examines adaptive approaches to aid programming in Nigeria. Through field research and desk reviews, we have investigated some of the assertions around the ‘adaptive management and programming’ approach, which ... -
Making Information Disclosure in Extractive Governance Count for Accountability in Mozambique
(Centro De Integridade Publica (CIP), 2018-10)Does information disclosure on corrupt extractive contracts empower citizens and institutions to take social and political action (SPA) to demand government accountability? In Mozambique, there have been some instances ... -
La Escala: Su Importancia y uso en Iniciativas de Transparencia y Rendición de Cuentas
(IDS, 2018-05)This research summary argues that the growing field of transparency, participation and accountability (TPA) needs a conceptual reboot, to address the limited traction gained so far on the path to accountability. To inform ... -
Using Social Media for Long-Haul Activism: Lessons from the BBOG Movement in Nigeria
(Partnership for African Social & Governance Research, 2018-07)The Bring Back our Girls (BBOG) is a women-led, spontaneous movement that erupted in Nigeria following the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram terrorists in 2014. It soon gained ... -
What Does Closing Civic Space Mean for Development? A Literature Review and Proposed Conceptual Framework
(IDS, 2018-07)What does closing civic space mean for development? Aid donors are concerned about the implications of restrictions on civil society for their partners and programmes, but to date there has been little clarity about what ... -
Adaptive Programming in Fragile, Conflict and Violence-Affected Settings, What Works and Under What Conditions?: The Case of Pyoe Pin, Myanmar
(Itad, 2018-07-12)This paper examines adaptive approaches in aid programming in a fragile, conflict and violence-affected setting (FCVAS), namely Myanmar. A combination of desk review and field research has been used to examine some of the ... -
Energy Protests in Fragile Settings: The Unruly Politics of Provisions in Egypt, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe, 2007–2017
(IDS, 2018-06)How do popular protests about the basics of everyday life, specifically about energy, come about in settings where political authority is fragmented and conflict and repression common? How do state and political actors ... -
The Role of External Actors in Supporting Social and Political Action towards Empowerment and Accountability with a Focus on Fragile, Conflict- and Violence-Affected Settings
(IDS, 2017-12)This paper explores the role and experience of external actors, particularly donors, in supporting social and political action in fragile, conflict and violence affected settings. Evidence is distilled from a wide range ...