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Understanding Governance from the Margins: What Does It Mean In Practice?

Published on 29 November 2021

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 this through in-depth study in conflict-affected areas of Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan. Our research teams interviewed the same people regularly over that time, finding out how they resolved problems and interacted with authorities. In this paper we connect what we found to the realities and complexities of development practice, drawing on the input of 20 experienced practitioners working in bilateral and multilateral development agencies and international NGOs, who generously gave their time to help us think through the practical implications of our wealth of findings.

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Barnes, K.; Anderson, C.; de Chassy, S.; Ahmed, A.; Ali, M.; Aung, M. M.; Chaimite, E.; Joshi, A.; Khan, D.; Loureiro, M.; Posse, L.; Rowlands, J.; Shankland, A. and Wazir, R. (2021) ‘Understanding Governance from the Margins: What Does it Mean in Practice?’, A4EA Policy and Practice Paper, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/A4EA.2021.003

Authors

Colin Anderson

Researcher

Egidio Chaimite

Postgraduate Researcher

Anuradha Joshi

Director of Research

Miguel Loureiro

Research Fellow

Researcher, Institute of Social and Economic Studies (IESE)

Alex Shankland

Research Fellow

Aung Myo Min
Rizwan Wazir

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Institute of Development Studies
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English

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