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Demanding Power: Do Protests Empower Citizens to Hold Governments Accountable over Energy?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Energy protests are becoming increasingly common and significant around the world. While in the global North concerns tend to centre around climate issues, in the global South the concerns are more often with affordable energy. Both types of protests, however, have one issue in common: the undemocratic nature of energy policymaking.

Integration of HIV, TB and malaria in Africa: A Reflection Workshop

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Recognising the importance of integrated health service management and delivery to accelerate Universal Health Care (UHC) and tackle the...

Navigating Civic Space in a Time of Covid: Synthesis Report

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Since long before the Covid-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, civic space has been changing all over the globe, generally becoming more...

Navigating Civic Space in a Time of COVID-19: Mozambique Country Report

This report builds on the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) research project Navigating Civic Space, which seeks to...

Of Zinc Roofs and Mango Trees: Tractors, the State and Agrarian Dualism in Mozambique

Published by: Taylor and Francis

This paper reviews the latest mechanisation programme by the Mozambican government, asking how it is politically driven and how it...

Shaping Social Change with Music in Maputo, Mozambique

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In Mozambique, development programmes have traditionally drawn on music as a means to promote social transformation by educating citizens on key social development issues. Shifting the focus from music as a teaching medium to music as a rich source of information can provide vital insights into public opinion and political ideas, and significantly impact the development of citizen engagement projects.

Who Can We Count On? Authority, Empowerment and Accountability in Mozambique

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In this paper, we explore the use of a governance diaries methodology to investigate poor households’ interactions with authority in fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings in Mozambique.