Publications

Sexual Torture of Men in Croatia and other Conflict Situations: an open secret

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This paper describes the circumstances in which sexual torture occurs, its causes and consequences, and the development of international law addressing it. Sexual torture constitutes any act of sexual violence which qualifies as torture. Public awareness of the widespread use of sexual torture...

Pauline Oosterhoff

New Democratic Spaces?

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Across the world, as new democratic experiments meet with and transform older forms of governance, political space for public engagement in governance appears to be widening. A renewed concern with rights, power and difference in debates about participation in development has focused greater...

Increasing Space and Influence through Community Organising and Citizen Monitoring: Experiences from the USA

IDS Bulletin Vol. 35 Nos. 2

In the USA, poor people have relatively little power. While they can vote and create organisations to represent their interests, their power is severely limited by the fact that they are a relatively small minority within an enormously wealthy country. In this most capitalist of nations, their...

Financing Water For All: Behind the Border Policy Convergence in Water Management

This paper tracks shifts in paradigms and practices around water financing historically to demonstrate how behind the border policy convergences have gradually emerged around key issues such as the diminishing role of the state in the provision of water services, shifts in public and private...

Lyla Mehta

id21 Market Research Report: Kenya

This trip was a pilot to inform future marketing research trips. Our aims were to understand more about how development research is used in Kenya by civil society organisations, media, information disseminators and policy-makers and to learn how id21 might make research about developing...

Concepts of Citizenship: A Review

IDS Development Bibliography;19

The 'Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability' aims to bring the voices of citizens in different contexts to the often abstract debates around citizenship.

John Gaventa

Devolution of Power in Pakistan: For or Against Democracy?

Shandana Khan Mohmand

Provision Responses to Devolved Service Delivery – Case Evidence from Jaranwala Tehsil

Shandana Khan Mohmand

E‐commerce for Developing Countries: Expectations and Reality

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce has been heralded as a radical change in the way that firms trade with one another. In the late 1990s, B2B e-commerce applications were being promoted as tools that would facilitate the access of producer firms in developing countries to globalmarkets. This...

John Humphrey & 3 others

Minding the Gap through Organizational Learning

The new language of development stresses the importance of more inclusive systems of aid. However, new challenges are presented by aid policies and projects that advocate participation of a broader range of stakeholders. The new development orthodoxies are highly value laden and, as such, are...

Imagining ‘the social’: Social Policy Analysis for the Poor in Poor Countries

This paper begins by reviewing the different meanings given to the concept of 'the social' within the development policy discourse over the past half century in order to delineate the domain of 'social policy' in the context of developing countries.

Naila Kabeer

Globalisation and Poverty

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This IDS Bulletin explores various aspects of the globalisation processes 'as they exist', in specific country and institutional contexts, in order to contribute to a better understanding of these processes and identify specific policy interventions. Three principal areas are covered: production...

John Humphrey