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Women’s Political Agency in Difficult Settings: Analysis of Evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan

This article explores the nature of challenges experienced by women and how they exercise political agency in such settings—as voters, claimants, and brokers of services, and as activists.

Celebrating Adaptive Delivery: A View from the Frontline in Myanmar

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The conversation on adaptive management has grown fast amongst development actors. These conversations often focus on designing, commissioning, and managing large-scale development programmes. Exactly how this impacts the frontline, the implementers, and day-to-day project delivery is still being debated. Yet, perspectives drawn directly from practice are often largely missing within these debates.

Governance Diaries: An Approach to Researching Marginalized People’s Lived Experiences in Difficult Settings

Published by: International Journal of Qualitative Methods

How do chronically poor and marginalized citizens interact with and make claims to the different public authorities that exist in...

Everyday Governance in Areas of Contested Power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan

How do poor and marginalized people solve problems and claim rights and entitlements in places affected by conflict and where state...

International Aid Actions for Accountability: Identifying Interaction Effects Between Programmes

Aid agencies that support public accountability reforms commonly do so in the same places, and with similar state and civil society...

The Governance Shock Doctrine: Civic Space in the Pandemic

Emergencies heighten societies’ need to be governed. Accordingly, the COVID-19 pandemic put systems of public governance under severe...

What Makes “Difficult” Settings Difficult? Contextual Challenges for Accountability

It is increasingly common for international development actors to work in difficult and fragile settings, yet much of our understanding...

Protests and Accountability in Nigeria’s Energy Sector (accessible version)

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Since 2016, Nigerians have experienced a stable fuel supply even if prices have continued to rise. This supply stability came to a sudden halt in January 2022, bringing back memories of long queues and harsh living conditions witnessed since 2007.

Protests and Accountability in Nigeria’s Energy Sector

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Since 2016, Nigerians have experienced a stable fuel supply even if prices have continued to rise. This supply stability came to a sudden halt in January 2022, bringing back memories of long queues and harsh living conditions witnessed since 2007.