Organisation
Africa Power and Politics (APPP)
Politics, power and authority in sub-Saharan Africa
Power and Politics in Africa is a five-year programme of research and policy engagement launched in 2007. It brings together research centres and think-tanks in Africa, Europe and the USA with funding from the UK Department for International Development and the Advisory Board of Irish Aid. It is led by staff of the Overseas Development Institute, London.
The programme is dedicated to "discovering institutions that work for poor people". That means exploring the kinds of political, economic and social arrangements that, if adopted, would enable countries of sub-Saharan Africa to make faster progress towards development and the elimination of extreme poverty. We aim to identify ways of ordering politics and regulating power and authority that might work better than those now in place. We want to do that on the basis of a careful and critical look at what has worked well in Africa itself in the recent and not-so-recent past.
The programme is dedicated to "discovering institutions that work for poor people". That means exploring the kinds of political, economic and social arrangements that, if adopted, would enable countries of sub-Saharan Africa to make faster progress towards development and the elimination of extreme poverty. We aim to identify ways of ordering politics and regulating power and authority that might work better than those now in place. We want to do that on the basis of a careful and critical look at what has worked well in Africa itself in the recent and not-so-recent past.
Published Documents
- Is the bride too beautiful? Safe motherhood in rural Rwanda
- V. Chambers; F. Golooba-Mutebi / Africa Power and Politics, 2012
- Despite recent improvements in some countries, progress towards reducing maternal mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa overall lags considerably behind that of other developing country regions. Recent evidence indicates th...
- Governance for development in Africa: building on what works
- D. Booth / Africa Power and Politics, 2011
- Millions of dollars have been spent on programmes to make private enterprise work in Africa as it does in the US, elections work as in Sweden, audit authorities as in Germany and civil society campaigns as in the Netherlands – wi...
- The state and accessible justice in Africa: is Ghana unique?
- R Crook / Africa Power and Politics, 2011
- The provision of legitimate and accessible justice for its citizens is one of the fundamental duties of a well-governed state. But throughout Africa the institutions of state justice are struggling to overcome problems of overload and...
