Governance Hybrids: Pro-Poor, Rights-Based Approaches in Rural Peru
Published by: IDS
How do we understand the hybrid forms of governance that occasionally emerge when rights-based approaches (RBA) are introduced into contexts of extreme poverty?
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Published by: IDS
How do we understand the hybrid forms of governance that occasionally emerge when rights-based approaches (RBA) are introduced into contexts of extreme poverty?
Published by: Zed Press
Rapid changes in science and technology pose a range of challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around issues of science, citizenship and globalisation.
Published by: IDS
The majority of land in Ghana is still held under a diversity of customary tenures, embedded in family, community and chiefly institutions; but land disputes may be adjudicated in a variety of institutions: informal arbitrations and family tribunals, chiefs' courts, quasi-legal state agencies and the formal state courts.
Published by: IDS
Evaluation quality is a function of methodological and data inputs. This paper argues that there has been inadequate investment in methodology, often resulting in low quality evaluation outputs.
Published by: IDS
This paper sets the task of examining the prospects of Japanese aid to increase significantly in the coming years, and its allocation to be re-directed towards the most aid needy countries.
Codes of labour practice to protect workers' rights are well established in many leading sourcing and retail companies. But, who makes sure that the codes are properly implemented? Conventional social auditing of codes give a 'snapshot' view, but sensitive issues like discrimination often remain hidden.
Published by: Earthscan
Ideas for Development is for all who are concerned with development, regardless of profession, discipline or organization. Especially it is for policy-makers, practitioners, managers, consultants, researchers, teachers, trainers and students, and those who work in aid agencies, governments, universities and colleges, NGOs and the private sector.
Published by: Zed Books
Inclusive Citizenship seeks to go beyond the intellectual debates of recent years on democratization and participation to explore a related set of issues around changing conceptions of citizenship. People's understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of the various meanings of identity, including national identity; political and electoral participation; and rights.
Published by: IDS
Today, many rural poor Filipinos are using state law to try to claim land rights. In spite of the availability of a much heftier set of specialised legal resources than ever before, however, claiming legal land rights remains extremely difficult.
Published by: IDS
Trade has an impact on the spatial pattern of production, employment and residence in countries, which can be altered by changes to policy. This Working Paper explains the ways in which trade policy and rural-urban balance may be linked, and suggests areas in which further enquiry may be particularly fruitful.