Guidelines for designing and monitoring social accountability interventions
Published by: SDC-IDS
This document presents a set of principles and general guidelines for designing and monitoring social accountability processes, paying...
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Published by: SDC-IDS
This document presents a set of principles and general guidelines for designing and monitoring social accountability processes, paying...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Recent literature has shown that the study of armed conflict can be highly informative to understand processes of state-building. One of the fundamental choices that states or other military actors face when occupying new territories and populations is whether to administer them by developing novel administrations (direct rule), or by devolving rule to pre-existing local authorities (indirect rule).
Published by: IDS
This research sets out to understand the effect of processes of decentralisation on violent conflict in Africa, and what entry points these provide for research and policy actors to engage in meaningful and effective governance, peace-building and conflict resolution.
Published by: IDS
An interest in young people has gained significant traction in both policy and academic circles over the past ten years, partly informed by the correlations between ‘youth bulges’ and large numbers of unemployed youth and a country’s instability.
Published by: IDS
This paper is an evidence review of how intersecting forms of inequalities influence women’s political participation and representation at the local level in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Published by: IDS
One of the most effective ways of increasing voluntary tax compliance is by improving tax morale. Several studies have been undertaken to examine why some individuals pay taxes while others do not. While many of these studies have been conducted at the national level, there is an increasing body of research at the subnational level.
Published by: IDS
This paper examines the drivers of inequality and social exclusion, especially discrimination, with a focus on how they intersect at the levels of family, community and local government institutions. The paper reviews current literature and emerging research, drawing on empirical work being carried out by the authors in Central and Eastern Europe, the UK and Africa.
Published by: IDS
A significant portion of the world’s remaining biodiversity and agrobiodiversity is in the hands of local and indigenous communities who tend to be politically marginalised and thus excluded from formal environmental governance schemes.
Published by: IDS
The paper reviews an emerging body of literature on the design and evaluation of current or recent governance interventions in countries with ongoing violent conflict, recovering from conflict or at serious risk of conflict.
Published by: SDC-IDS
We ask three main guiding questions in this review: (a) what types of informal, traditional or religious authorities/institutions organise citizen interaction and engagement with the state in different parts of the world; (b) why do these institutions matter from a policy perspective and what are their implications for governance; and (c) from where do they draw legitimacy to engage with the state on behalf of communities and to take on various governance functions?