Jonathan Fox is Professor of Development Studies at the School of International Service at American University, where he directs the new Accountability Research Center.
Follow Jonathan on Twitter at: @jonathanfox707
Jonathan Fox is Professor of Development Studies at the School of International Service at American University, where he directs the new Accountability Research Center.
Follow Jonathan on Twitter at: @jonathanfox707
Learning with SPARK was an innovative action learning partnership between the Institute of Development Studies, the Accountability Research Center and the International Budget Partnership (IBP). It aimed to generate knowledge from a significant programme run by the IBP – called SPARK...
How is social and political action for empowerment and accountability enabled and supported by donors working in specific fragile, conflict- and violence-affected settings? Many donor organisations aim in some way to empower people living in contexts of fragility, conflict and violence, and...
This research theme, under the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) Research Programme, is concerned with the following question: how can stable and inclusive political settlements (among elites) and a just social contract (between elites and different social groups) emerge that are...
As well as recognising the need to work in more adaptive and less linear ways, increasingly people working to generate greater accountability and responsiveness on the part of authorities are interested in how to ‘connect the dots’ between localised projects, initiatives, and reforms to...
Jonathan Fox argues that we need to be aware of how accountability terms can and have been politically constructed, and encourages us to search for terms that do a better job of communicating the key steps on the path to accountability-building.
4 August 2017
Aid agencies that support public accountability reforms commonly do so in the same places, and with similar state and civil society actors. However, the combined effects of their separate programmatic actions are rarely analysed. This study departs from conventional analysis of aid agency...
24 November 2022
IDS Policy Briefing 196
Multiple aid agencies often try to support change in the same places, at the same time, and with similar actors. Surprisingly, their interactions and combined effects are rarely explored.
17 May 2022
IDS Policy Briefing 196
Multiple aid agencies often try to support change in the same places, at the same time, and with similar actors. Surprisingly, their interactions and combined effects are rarely explored.
10 May 2022
IDS Working Paper 536
Development donors invest significantly in governance reform, including in contexts characterised by conflict and fragility. However, there is relatively little comparative study of their change strategies, and little understanding of what works and why. This paper explores the strategies of six...
3 April 2020