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dc.contributor.authorJoshi, Anuradha
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-14T10:03:02Z
dc.date.available2018-05-14T10:03:02Z
dc.date.issued2017-11
dc.identifier.citationJoshi, A. (2017) Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability: Complementary Strategies Toward Rights-based Development in Health? World Development Vol. 99, pp. 160–172.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13754
dc.description.abstractCitizen-based accountability strategies to improve the lives of the poor and marginalized groups are increasingly being used in efforts to improve basic public services. The latest thinking suggests that broader, multi-pronged, multi-level, strategic approaches that may overcome the limitations of narrow, localized successes, hold more promise. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities, in theory and practice, posed by the integration of two such citizen-based accountability strategies—social accountability and legal empowerment. It traces the foundations of each of these approaches to highlight the potential benefits of integration. Consequently it examines whether these benefits have been realized in practice, by drawing upon five cases of organizations pursuing integration of social accountability and legal empowerment for health accountability in Macedonia, Guatemala, Uganda, and India. The cases highlight that while integration offers some promise in advancing the cause of social change, it also poses challenges for organizations in terms of strategies they pursue.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rights© 2017 The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectHealthen
dc.titleLegal Empowerment and Social Accountability: Complementary Strategies Toward Rights-based Development in Health?en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.rights.holder© 2017 The Author.en
dc.identifier.externalurihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X17302425en
dc.identifier.teamGovernanceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.07.008
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© 2017 The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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