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Robert Chambers - Research Associate

Participation Power and Social Change
T: +44 (0)1273 915723
E: r.chambers@ids.ac.uk

Administrator:
Sulu Mathew

Thematic Expertise:
Agriculture; Nutrition; Participatory methodologies; Participation Power and Politics; Poverty; Water and Sanitation.

Geographic Expertise:
Central and South Asia; Sub Saharan Africa.

Professor Robert Chambers is has a background in biology, history and public administration.

His current concerns and interests include professionalism, power, the personal dimension in development, participatory methodologies, teaching and learning with large numbers, agriculture and science, Seasonality Revisited, and Community-Led Total Sanitation.

Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation

Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory approach that started in Bangladesh and has been spread to varying degrees in India, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Nepal. To a limited degree, it has also been trialled in some African countries.

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Immersions for Aid Practitioners
Promoting and developing immersions as a practical training method for people working in international development

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Participation and Development Relations
Promoting a rights perspective to the challenges of poverty, inequality and insecurity.

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Sharing Lessons, Improving Practice: Maximising the Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation

CLTS is an innovative methodology for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD).

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Who Counts? The Power of Participatory Statistics

 (2013)
Holland, J.

Provocations for Development

 (2012)
Chambers, R.

'Lukenya Notes': Taking CLTS to Scale with Quality

 (2011)

Paradigms, Poverty and Adaptive Pluralism

 In 'Paradigms, Poverty and Adaptive Pluralism' (2010)
Chambers, R.

Paradigms, Poverty and Adaptive Pluralism

 IDS Working Paper 344 (2010)
Chambers, R.

‘The Bamako CLTS Consensus: What Works and Traps to Avoid’, Regional Sharing and Learning Workshop for francophone Africa, Bamako, 29 November – 3 December 2010

 (2010)

‘Lusaka Declaration’, Statement and Recommendations from the Regional Sharing and Learning Workshop of CLTS Decision-makers, Practitioners and Networkers in Lusaka, World Toilet Day, 19 November 2010

(2010)

Beyond Subsidies – Triggering a Revolution in Rural Sanitation

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 10 (2009)
Bongartz, P. and Chambers, R.

Who Counts? The Quiet Revolution of Participation and Numbers

 In 'Who Counts? The Quiet Revolution of Participation and Numbers' (2007)
Chambers, R.

Towards a New Social Justice Agenda: understanding Political responses to crises

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 11.5 (2009)
Hossain, N. with Bishop, K., Chambers, R., Carroll, K., Eyben, R., Jolly, R., Melamed, C and Sabates-Wheeler, R.

Going to Scale with Community-Led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience, Issues and Ways Forward (Research Summary)

 IDS Research Summary RSPP1 (2009)
Chambers, R

Handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation

 (2009)
Kar, K. with Chambers, R.

Going to Scale with Community-Led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience, Issues and Ways Forward

 IDS Practice Paper 1 (2009)
Chambers, R.

Revolutions in Development Inquiry

 (2008)
Chambers, R

Who Counts? The Quiet Revolution of Participation and Numbers

 IDS Working Paper 296 (2007)
Chambers, R.

From PRA to PLA to Pluralism: Practice and Theory

 IDS Working Paper 286 (2007)
Chambers, R.

Poverty Research: Methodologies, Mindsets and Multidimensionality

 IDS Working Paper 293 (2007)
Chambers, R.

Out of the Closet, Into the Open: Professionalism, Power and the Personal in Development

 World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development 4.4 (2007)
Chambers, R

Poverty Unperceived: Traps, Biases and Agenda

 IDS Working Paper 270 (2006)
Chambers, R.

Participatory Learning and Action: Critical Relections: Future Directions

 (2005)
Chambers, R., Cornwall, A., Gaventa, J., Musoki, S. and Pettit, J.
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