2010 - 2015: Recent submissions
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Advances in Knowledge Brokering in the Agricultural Sector: Towards Innovation System Facilitation
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)The process of knowledge brokering in the agricultural sector, where it is generally called agricultural extension, has been studied since the 1950s. While agricultural extension initially employed research push models, ... -
Seeing ‘With my Own Eyes’: Strengthening Interactions between Researchers and Schools
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)We describe a participatory action research (PAR) project aimed at initiating a schools project as a component of the wider Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)–Wellcome Trust Research Programme's (KWTRP) community ... -
Passing on the Hot Potato: Lessons from a Policy Brief Experiment
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Research has potential to improve the lives of the world's vulnerable people – if it is appropriately referred to in decision?making processes. While there is a significant industry of activity each year to communicate ... -
Changing the Financial Landscape of Africa: An Unusual Story of Evidence?informed Innovation, Intentional Policy Influence and Private Sector Engagement
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article uses the Steven Framework to show the influence of research on the policies and practices of mobile money transfer and mobile phone?enabled payments in Africa. While it is a much?discussed subject, few people ... -
Radio, ICT Convergence and Knowledge Brokerage: Lessons from Sub?Saharan Africa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article examines the changing role of radio for development in sub?Saharan Africa as ‘new’ Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) increasingly enter the information landscape. Grounded in the empirical ... -
Reframing Digital Storytelling as Co?creative
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This study of the digital storytelling (DST) project at the South Asia Hub of the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium examines the capacity of DST practice to articulate women's diverse experiences ... -
Changing Focus: Exploring Images of Women and Empowerment in Egypt
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)In moving away from prescriptive one?way communications exercises, participatory development communications use better strategies to engage communities and capture nuance. This article examines a communications case study ... -
Digital Storytelling in Bangladesh: Experiences, Challenges and Possibilities
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article reflects on a digital storytelling project undertaken for research, communication, and advocacy purposes in Bangladesh. The project trained young women from different regions of the country to make digital ... -
Real World: Empowering Representations of Women through Film
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article makes an argument for the added value of the use of documentary film in development research communication. It draws broadly on the specific experience of the Real World film scheme developed by the Pathways ... -
Emerging Implications of Open and Linked Data for Knowledge Sharing in Development
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Movements towards open data involve the publication of datasets (from metadata on publications, to research, to operational project statistics) online in standard formats and without restrictions on reuse. A number of open ... -
Security Sector Reform: An Essential Challenge for Peace Building Processes in Africa
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Notes on Contributors
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Introduction: Hybrid Security Governance in Africa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Security Sector Reform (SSR) programmes have not sufficiently acknowledged the fact that in Africa, security governance is based on a complex amalgam of statutory and non?statutory actors and institutions which do form the ... -
The African Standby Force: An Element of Prospective Multilevel Security Governance
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article examines the African Standby Force (ASF), an African?led mechanism for crisis management and peace consolidation in Africa, and its potential contribution to multilayered security governance. It analyses the ... -
A ‘Force for Good’? Police Reform in Post?conflict Sierra Leone
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)The Sierra Leone Police Force has its origins in British colonial administration. After Independence and with the consolidation of one?party rule the force slid into disrepute. The outbreak of civil conflict in 1991 largely ... -
Multilevel Governance and Security: Security Sector Reform in the Central African Republic
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article analyses how the security sector reform (SSR) process in the Central African Republic was defined and implemented between 2008 and 2010, putting emphasis on the interactions between national and international ... -
Mapping Police Services in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article examines the roles, responsibilities and interactions between the various formal and informal institutions and stakeholders involved in the management of police services in the DRC. It identifies informal ... -
Criminal Networks and Conflict?resolution Mechanisms in Northern Mali
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Northern Mali faces three principle, intertwining security threats: trafficking, rebellious uprisings and terrorist activity. Any attempts at maintaining law and order are undermined by the fragility of state structures. ... -
Security Systems in Francophone and Anglophone Africa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article analyses the commonalities and differences between African anglophone and francophone security systems in the context of security sector reform. Although each country has a distinct political history and ... -
Glossary
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