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Participation, Power and Social Change Team Linking research, learning and action to build just and sustainable societies
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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Putting sexuality on the development map
Published: 6 Sep 2010
An online photo exhibition is the latest in a series of innovative communications from IDS illustrating the link between sexuality and development.
Is civil society equipped to face multiple, linked global crises?
Published: 26 Aug 2010
IDS Fellows John Gaventa and Naomi Hossain suggest NGOs face new challenges presented by global economic slowdown, climate change, fiscal shortfalls, and rising energy and food costs
UN Recognises Access to Water and Sanitation as a Human Right
Published: 2 Aug 2010
On 28 July the UN General Assembly recognised access to clean water and sanitation as a human right - despite 41 abstentions including the UK.
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Latest Team Publications »
- Tadros, M. and Costa, A. (forthcoming) 'Quotas: Add Women and Stir?', IDS Bulletin 41.5, Brighton: IDS
- Chambers, R. (2010) 'Paradigms, Poverty and Adaptive Pluralism', IDS Working Paper 344, Brighton: IDS
- 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