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Sustaining Power: Women’s struggles against contemporary backlash in South Asia
Women in South Asia have struggled for many decades to improve their lives within their families, in their communities, for securing...
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Women’s Social and Political Action (part of the A4EA programme)
This stream of work under the A4EA research programme explores "to what extent does women’s social and political action lead to empowerment and accountability in fragile, conflict and violence affected settings?”
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SPHEIR, PedaL: Pedagogical Leadership in Africa
PedaL is a formal partnership of eight institutions that aims to embed and catalyse systemic change in teaching and learning in African...
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Democratisation, Decentralisation, Local Governance: IDS-SDC Collaboration
The aim of this third phase of cooperation between IDS and SDC is to share learning and collaborate on policy engagement in priority areas of decentralised and democratic local governance.
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Pathways to Accountability Bargains (part of the A4EA research programme)
This research theme, under the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) Research Programme, is concerned with the following question: how can stable and inclusive political settlements (among elites) and a just social contract (between elites and different social groups) emerge that are based on accountable and responsive institutions?
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Meanings and Expressions of Empowerment and Accountability (part of the A4EA programme)
This research theme, under the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) Research Programme, is concerned with the meanings of empowerment and accountability from the point of view of the people’s experiences and perceptions, and this in turn means for collective action.
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The role of external actors (part of the A4EA programme)
Under the theme of "the role of external actors", this collection of projects from the A4EA programme is examining the best ways for external actors, particularly donors and NGOs, can support internally-led social and political actions that lead to greater empowerment and accountability, or to create enabling conditions that contribute to these
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Innovative Ways in Supporting Decentralised and Democratic Local Governance
The aim of this cooperation with the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation is to strengthen their Democratisation, Decentralisation and Local Governance Network's understanding, learning, and policy engagement in decentralised and democratic local governance.
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Balancing unpaid care work and paid work
The 'Balancing unpaid care work and paid work: successes, challenges and lessons for women's economic empowerment programmes and policies' project aims to create knowledge about how women's economic empowerment (WEE) policy and programming can generate paid work that empowers women and provides more support for their unpaid care work responsibilities.
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Experimental research on tax compliance in Rwanda
This project conducted a set of large-scale field experiments in Rwanda aiming to understand the determinants of tax compliance.