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8 November 2019
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This report highlights key messages emerging from the work of the Action for Empowerment and Accountability Research Programme (A4EA), and the implications for how donors, policy makers and practitioners support strategies for empowerment and accountability in fragile, conflict and violence affected settings.
IDS Research fellow Marjoke Oosterom has won an ESRC New Investigators grant to do research on youth and political socialization in the...
18 January 2019
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
An important question for schools of Development Studies (DS) is how to undertake research that is both rigorous in its own right, and...
Exploring and addressing the challenges facing capacity development to bring about change in a purposeful way
This collaboration between IDS and the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) aims to bring appropriate participatory methods into quality assurance within SDC. It will also bring new levels of rigour to the principles of participation, poverty orientation and empowerment in the work of SDC and its partners.
12 June 2018
Published by: IDS
This primer is designed to help programmes that aim to build participation into economic decision-making to better understand what ‘participation’ means.
1 February 2017
26 January 2017
Who defines what good quality research is? How, why and who should we co-construct knowledge with? What counts as impact? How do we...
26 January 2017
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Approaches to engaged research, which do not just produce academic knowledge, but link with people and groups in society, have long...
19 December 2016
Published by: IDS
Who defines what good quality research is? How, why and who should we co-construct knowledge with? What counts as impact? How do we build enduring partnerships? The articles in this IDS Bulletin aim to answer these questions based on IDS’ approach of ‘engaged excellence’.