Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability
Exploring approaches that work to strengthen rights and meaningful citizenship for poor people.
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Exploring approaches that work to strengthen rights and meaningful citizenship for poor people.
The Unequal Voices project - Vozes Desiguais in Portuguese - examines the politics of accountability in health systems in Brazil and Mozambique, exploring how accountability can be used to deliver better health services for citizens everywhere.
IDS is leading the consortium that has been asked to develop proposals for a major overhaul of the health services serving indigenous peoples in Brazil.
Brazil is a founding member of the BRICS group, Latin America's largest economy and the world's sixth-largest economy. The Rising Powers in International Development (RPID) programme is looking at Brazil's growing role in the field of international development cooperation.
The Centre's mission is to harness the ideas and the research skills of applied social science researchers, in both developing and developed countries, to assist policymakers and citizens to find ways of increasing the effectiveness, accountability and responsiveness of public authority in poorer countries, and thus contribute to reducing poverty.