Egidio Chaimite is undertaking a PhD at the Institute of Development Studies.
The research title is:
‘‘People and Party-State in Rural Gaza, Mozambique.’’
Alex Shankland and Patta Scott-Villiers are the PhD supervisors.
Egidio Chaimite is undertaking a PhD at the Institute of Development Studies.
The research title is:
‘‘People and Party-State in Rural Gaza, Mozambique.’’
Alex Shankland and Patta Scott-Villiers are the PhD supervisors.
When citizens and communities in fragile settings don't engage with public authorities to solve their governance issues, what do they do instead and why? When marginalised people do engage, make claims and demand accountability from public authorities, what are the roles, strategies and...
Background We do not have much understanding of what empowerment and accountability mean to poor people through their lived experiences. In fact, in fragile and conflict-affected settings, especially in areas affected by violent conflict, we have little understandings of how ordinary people...
International Journal of Qualitative Methods Vol 22
How do chronically poor and marginalized citizens interact with and make claims to the different public authorities that exist in fragile, conflict and violence-affected contexts? In other words, how does governance from below look like in difficult settings? Given the centrality of the...
2 February 2023
How do poor and marginalized people solve problems and claim rights and entitlements in places affected by conflict and where state authority is contested? Understanding such processes is important as the numbers of poor people living in difficult settings grows, yet existing research on...
3 January 2023
What does governance look like ‘from below’ – from the perspectives of poor and marginalised households? How do patterns of conflict affect that? These were the questions at the heart of the Governance at the Margins research project. Over three years from 2017-2020 we worked to explore...
29 November 2021
IDS Working Paper 534
Research on empowerment and accountability tends to focus on collective action and its potential for empowering citizens undertaking the action and on achieving state accountability. In fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings collective action is rare and risky. So how do citizens,...
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In a world that is increasingly affected by a rise in authoritarianism and populist politics, our research supports the actors who are promoting progressive social change, helping them generate the learning, insights and evidence they need for effective action. We are particularly focused on...