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17 February 2022
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29 November 2021
Understanding Governance from the Margins: What Does It Mean In Practice?
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
What does governance look like ‘from below’ – from the perspectives of poor and marginalised households? How do patterns of...
Project
Governance Diaries of the Poor
Background We do not have much understanding of what empowerment and accountability mean to poor people through their lived...
Working Paper
14 February 2020
Governance Diaries: An Approach to Governance Research from the Ground Up
Published by: IDS
Research on empowerment and accountability tends to focus on collective action and its potential for empowering citizens undertaking the action and on achieving state accountability. In fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings collective action is rare and risky. So how do citizens, particularly the chronically poor and most marginalised, interact and make claims on the different public authorities that exist in these settings, and how do these interactions contribute to citizens’ sense of empowerment and accountability?
Project
Governance at the Margins: Exploring Marginalised Groups’ Engagement with Public Authorities (A4EA)
When citizens and communities in fragile settings don't engage with public authorities to solve their governance issues, what do they...