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id21 viewpoints

How to contribute your viewpoint

We invite you to contribute your opinion on development policy issues as they relate to your work. This is also a chance for you to share your work with id21's international audience. You can link your article to highlights featured on id21 or not, as you wish, for example:

As a researcher, you could give your opinion on research featured on id21 or tell us about your work if you feel your ideas are neglected by id21.
If you’re involved in policy or project implementation, you could tell us whether you find id21 research useful, how it might be more relevant, or what you feel is missing.
As an activist, you could tell us about your work, the problems you face and possible solutions; you might also tell us how the research reported by id21 relates to your work. How relevant and useful do you find id21 research?
You could simply write a short article about your point of view, your work – but with a focus on the policy issues/challenges.

What to do next …
1. Decide on a topic that you would like to write about bearing in mind that id21 users are mostly interested in policy lessons and implications.

2. Email editor@ids.ac.uk providing a) a very short description of yourself and your work and b) a 50-word summary of what your article would focus on. We would then get in touch to let you know whether your idea is suitable for id21’s audiences.

3. If accepted, we would then ask you to write a short 500 word article for id21. This would need to be policy-relevant and practical (saying what works, what doesn’t and why), interesting and informative.

4. In line with id21’s editorial style, we would advise you to write clearly in plain English, using short sentences and paragraphs given that for many id21 users, English is a second language. id21 editors will help you as necessary to get the style right prior to publication on id21.

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Views expressed on these pages are not necessarily those of DfID, IDS, id21 or other contributing institutions. Articles featured on the id21 site may be copied or quoted without restriction provided id21 and originating author(s) and institution(s) are acknowledged. Copyright © 2009 IDS. All rights reserved.

id21 is funded by the UK Department for International Development. id21 is one of a family of knowledge services at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. id21 is a www.oneworld.net partner and an affiliate of www.mediachannel.org. IDS is a charitable company, No. 877338.