Action for Empowerment and Accountability Programme: Recent submissions
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Commissions of Inquiry in Plateau State, Nigeria
(IDS, 2019-08)Nigeria’s Plateau State has been the scene of inter-community violence since the 1990s, involving several clashes in the city of Jos that took many lives within a matter of days. Between 1997 and 2014 different Commissions ... -
Adaptive Programming in Fragile, Conflict and Violence-Affected Settings. What Works and Under What Conditions? The Case of Institutions for Inclusive Development, Tanzania
(Itad, 2019-07-01)Adaptive Management involves a dynamic interaction between three elements: delivery, programming and governance. This case study focuses on a large DfID governance project, the Institutions for Inclusive Development (I4ID), ... -
Beyond Tweets and Screams: Action for Empowerment and Accountability in Nigeria – The Case of the #BBOG Movement
(IDS, 2019-06-27)This paper explores the nature, role and dynamics of new forms of social and political action as pathways to empowerment and accountability in fragile conflict- and violence-affected settings in Africa. Through an in-depth ... -
Fortalecendo a Legitimidade das Organizações da Sociedade Civil: Pesquisa-acção com organizações que trabalham em prol dos direitos das mulheres
(Forum Mulher, 2018-12)This policy brief is the result of a collaboration between Fórum Mulher and the Institute of Development Studies entitled 'Strengthening the Legitimacy of Civil Society Organisations for Empowerment and Social Accountability: ... -
The Case for an Adaptive Approach to Empowerment and Accountability Programming in Fragile Settings
(Itad, 2019-06-21)Fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings (FCVAS) are messy and ambiguous contexts in which to plan and implement development initiatives. To work there, external actors are increasingly adopting an adaptive approach ... -
Development Needs Civil Society - The Implications of Civic Space for the Sustainable Development Goals
(IDS, 2019-04-01)This report analyses the implications for development of the recent wave of closures of civic space that has primarily affected human rights-based and liberal democratic organizations - non-governmental organizations ... -
Fortalecendo a Legitimidade das Organizações da Sociedade Civil para o Empoderamento e Responsabilização Social: pesquisa-acção com organizações do movimento das mulheres em Moçambique
(Fórum Mulher, 2018-12)This research aimed to contribute to broadening the debate on legitimacy and representation in civil society organisations, taking as a case study Forum Mulher and its members, in order to understand to what extent the ... -
The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Sustainable Development in Cambodia
(2019-04-30)This report on Cambodia is one of a set of four country case studies designed to study the implications of closing civic space for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The case study was commissioned ... -
The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Sustainable Development in Nepal
(2019-04-30)This report on Nepal is one of a set of four country case studies designed to study the implications of closing civic space for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The case study was commissioned ... -
The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe
(2019-04-30)This report on Zimbabwe is one of a set of four country case studies designed to study the implications of closing civic space for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The case study was commissioned ... -
The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Sustainable Development in Brazil
(2019-04-30)This report on Brazil is one of a set of four country case studies designed to study the implications of closing civic space for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The case study was commissioned ... -
Women's Political Participation in a Pakistani Metropolis: Navigating Gendered Household and Political Spaces
(The Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives, 2019-04)The male–female gap in voter turnout in the 2018 Pakistani general elections stood at 9.1 per cent, with 11 million fewer women exercising their right to vote than men. This report shows that the largest city in each of ... -
Closing Civic Space and Inclusive Development in Ethiopia
(IDS, 2019-04)This paper presents findings from a case study exploring the prospects for measuring the impacts of restricted civic space on development in Ethiopia. It is part of a larger inquiry into the phenomenon of restrictions on ... -
Empowering Women Politicians in Pakistan: Views from Within
(IDS, 2019-04-16)Women parliamentarians and local legislators in Pakistan still face a significant uphill battle to establish or deepen their political careers, despite recent gains such as the Election Law 2017 which mandated parties to ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Changing Civic Space on Development Outcomes: A Methodological Discussion
(IDS, 2018-08-18)This paper explores the methodological options for assessing or measuring the impacts of closing civic space on development. It summarises a review of literature on the forms and spread of efforts to restrict civic space, ... -
How Does the World Bank Build Citizen Engagement Commitments into Project Design? Results from Pilot Assessments in Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Pakistan
(IDS, 2019-04-08)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 ... -
Beyond the Religious/Secular Binary Trap: Keeping the Focus on Gender Equality
(IDS, 2019-03-19)In a global context of deep ideological, political, social and economic polarisations, it is unsurprising that fault lines exist in Western aid circles on how to engage with the role of religion in relation to gender ... -
Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan’s Big Cities: Evidence for Reform
(IDS, 2019-03-08)Why did 11 million fewer women than men vote in Pakistan’s 2018 general elections? Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is a much higher gender gap in each province’s largest metropolitan city compared to its remaining ... -
Invisible Citizens: Why More Women in Pakistan Do Not Vote
(IDS, 2019-02-20)Why does a gender gap in voting exist in Pakistan? Our research looks beyond the creation of democratic spaces for women's participation, such as voter registration, to look instead at the constraints that women face in ... -
The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Sustainable Development in Pakistan
(IDS, 2019-02-07)This paper presents findings from a case study exploring the prospects for measuring the impacts of restricted civic space on development in Pakistan. It is part of a larger inquiry into the phenomenon of restrictions on ...