From Development to Transformation: Citizen Engagement and Social Justice
IDS Professorial Fellow John Gaventa will examine how far citizen participation has helped to address issues of growing economic inequality.
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IDS Professorial Fellow John Gaventa will examine how far citizen participation has helped to address issues of growing economic inequality.
Published by: IDS
Accountability and transparency initiatives have taken democratisation, governance, aid and development circles by storm since the turn of the century. Many actors involved with them – as donors, funders, programme managers, implementers and researchers – are now keen to know more about what these initiatives are achieving.
Published by: Overseas Development Institute
This issue of Development Policy Review arises from a study of the impact and effectiveness of transparency and accountability initiatives (TAIs) in different development sectors. It analyses existing evidence, discusses how approaches to learning about TAIs might be improved, and recommends how impact and effectiveness could be enhanced.
Published by: Wiley
This issue of Development Policy Review arises from a study of the impact and effectiveness of transparency and accountability initiatives (TAIs) in different development sectors. It analyses existing evidence, discusses how approaches to learning about TAIs might be improved, and recommends how impact and effectiveness could be enhanced.
Published by: IDS
This paper arises from a review of the impact and effectiveness of transparency and accountability initiatives which gathered and analysed existing evidence, discussed how it could be improved, and evaluated how impact and effectiveness could be enhanced.
Published by: IDS
Over the last two decades, the idea that citizen engagement and participation can contribute to improved governance and development outcomes has been mainstreamed in development policy and discourse.
Transparency and accountability have emerged over the past decade as key ways to address both developmental failures and democratic deficits.
Amnesty International has adopted 'Active Participation' and 'Engaging Partners' as cross-cutting thematic foci. It is exploring exactly how these concepts are understood by different actors in Amnesty International, and what their implications are for Amnesty International's work.
Published by: IDS
The potential contribution of citizen engagement to improved governance and developmental outcomes has become accepted in policy discourse, but its impact has proved difficult to assess.
Published by: Zed Books
How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? This book brings together eight studies of successful cases of citizen activism for national policy changes in South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines.