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Researching Governance in Difficult Times and Places: Reflections from Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria and Pakistan

Published by: Wiley

Fragility and closing civic space present significant challenges for research, making research processes more onerous and difficult,...

Understanding Accountability in Practice: Obligations, Scrutiny, and Consequences

Attempting to increase authorities' accountability for their actions has become a mainstay of development practice in recent decades....

Citizen Action for Accountability in Challenging Contexts: What Have we Learned?

While much is known about how citizens mobilize and make claims for accountability in more democratic, stable, and peaceful settings,...

The Case of MUVA Assistentes: Beyond Income Generation to a New Approach for Women’s Empowerment

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This paper highlights the case of MUVA Assistentes, a public works programme (PWP) that provided training and mentoring to young...

Repertoires of Citizen Action in Hybrid Settings

Published by: Wiley

In recent years, a growing literature has emerged analysing how organised citizen action can achieve more accountable and inclusive...

Women’s Political Agency in Difficult Settings: Analysis of Evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan

This article explores the nature of challenges experienced by women and how they exercise political agency in such settings—as voters, claimants, and brokers of services, and as activists.

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...