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Reimagining Social Protection

Published by: IDS

Social protection features in numerous country policies and development agency strategies, as well as in several Sustainable Development...

Protest Event Analysis: Grievances, Triggers, and Strategies in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Protests are a feature of both democratic and non-democratic regimes. However, protests in non-democratic regimes have received insufficient academic attention. The nature of protest grievances, strategies, and tactics have been little studied in authoritarian and hybrid regimes. Additionally, triggers of protests are themselves an under-theorised concept.

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,...

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...

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...