Institute of Development Studies

Participation, Power and Social Change Team

The PPSC team works in partnership with diverse collaborators from around the world to generate ideas and action for social change.

Citizens and their organisations, policymakers, development workers and researchers are increasingly appreciating that standard recipes for managing the complexity of our inter-connected world have not worked.

Through research, innovation and learning in rights-based and participatory approaches, we work with people to identify and implement alternative approaches to social change that respond to local situations and bridge operational practice with research and policy change.

Our work intends to help tackle the power inequalities that create crises and sustain poverty and injustices through the suppression of alternative or marginalised voices.

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UN Women receives guarded welcome from gender activists

Published: 22 Jul 2010

Cross-country analysis on citizen engagement helps inform development policy making

Published: 9 Jul 2010

IDS celebrates International Day Against Homophobia

Published: 17 May 2010

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Latest Team Publications »

• Jolly, S. (2010) 'Sexuality and Poverty: What have they got to do with each other?' in Izugbara, C., Undie, C.C. and Wanjiku Khamasi, J. (eds), Old Wineskins, New Wine: Readings in Sexuality in sub-Saharan Africa, New York : Nova Science Publishers
• McGee, R and García Heredia, I (2010) 'Paris in Bogotá: Applying the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Colombia', IDS Working Paper 342, Brighton: IDS
• Jolly, S. (2010) 'Why the development industry should get over its obsession with bad sex and start to think about pleasure' in Lind, A. and Bergeron, S. (eds), Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance: Resisting Global Power, Routledge
• Khan, S. and Jolly, S. (2010) 'Sex, Gender and Development: Challenging Heteronormativity'
• (2010) 'Women's Stories from Palestine and Brazil' , Brighton: IDS