Publications

Making Community Participation Meaningful: a Handbook for Development and Assessment

Community participation is now demanded of virtually all public sector services and programmes. This handbook provides practitioners, community activists, regeneration managers, teachers and academics with the tools needed to ensure that community participation is effective.

Danny Burns

Researching Well-being: Communicating between the Needs of Policy Makers and the Needs of People

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This article explores the links between conceptions of well-being, the way these are operationalized in empirical research, the knowledge produced and the policy process.

A Training Framework for Understanding Conflict in the Coastal Zone

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The coastal zone is attractive for human settlement because it tends to be resource rich, providing a good location to generate incomes and livelihoods. Equally, however, it is a complex and powerful natural environment, which means that the coastal zone often becomes a focus of conflict with...

Introduction: citizenship and the messiness of political life

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Fiona Wilson

Regionalism: Old and New, Theory and Practice

Imperfect Competition: Modelling Alternatives and Sensitivity

Personal Change and Responsible Wellbeing

When it comes to improving development policy and practice, individual learning and change is as important as organizational learning and change, and the organization depends upon the individual. At both of these levels, an understanding of internal perspectives is required in order to explain...

The Processes and Dynamics of Pastoralist Representation in Ethiopia

IDS working papers;220

The functioning of democratic institutions has the potential to bring about substantial policy change in favour of poor and marginalised people. However, there is a limited understanding of how to strengthen the political representation of poor people within democratic structures.

Research on the Current State of PRS Monitoring Systems

IDS discussion papers;382

This report reviews recent literature on monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies. It discusses four challenging areas: institutional arrangements; the role of non-government organisations; implementation and intermediate output monitoring.

Henry Lucas

Corporate accountability to the poor? : assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies

IDS working papers;227

This paper investigates how, when and why community-based strategies are effective in promoting corporate accountability to the poor. It argues that mainstream approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR) underestimate the importance of power in the relationship between corporations and...

Rights-based approaches and beyond : challenges of linking rights and participation

IDS working papers;235

As more and more development and human rights organisations critically assess their impact and strategies, there is growing convergence in the questions they raise about how to be most effective in addressing structural, systemic causes of poverty and exclusion and thus, make a positive...

Re-visioning “the social” : towards a citizen-centred social policy for the poor in poor countries

IDS working papers;191

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. This review suggests that the...