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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...

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...

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?