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  Community-led Micro-Planning: Building Capacity of Local Leaders for Participatory Planning in Bhutan, 8 –10 February 2017, Tsirang Dzongkhag, Bhutan

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  Bottom-up participatory planning is an ongoing practice within and outside government planning processes in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Community-led micro-planning begins at the grassroots level. Ideally it influences higher level planning and represents grassroots population in the decision-making process.
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  Tools, platforms and mechanisms to support accountability to disaster-affected populations in the Philippines

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  When Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in 2013, a number of national and local government tools, platforms and mechanisms were put in place to support the coordination of national government efforts to respond to the disaster. Many of these tools, platforms and mechanisms are web-based and accessible to the public.
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  Public-Private Partnerships and Undernutrition: Examples and Future Prospects

  2016

  In this chapter, we clarify what is meant by public-private partnerships (PPPs), provide examples of both successful and less successful PPPs and describe some broad lessons. We see scope for PPPs that would reduce aspects of undernutrition. However, this optimism comes with significant caveats.
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  Do more empowered citizens make more accountable states? Power and legitimacy in legal empowerment initiatives in Kenya and South Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  Many marginalised groups face difficulties in accessing essential services, such as housing, health care and water – even though their rights to these services are enshrined in international and often in national laws.
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  Transforming governance: how can technology help reshape democracy?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016

  The governance field is preoccupied with the question of how we can make democracy work better.
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  Building an ecosystem around data: using interactive radio for accountability to farmers in Tanzania

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  The Listening Post is an interactive radio series aimed at an audience of farmers. It combines specialised interactive radio broadcasts with Uliza, a tool created by FRI for gathering and analysing feedback and questions from audience members.
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  Client experience of rape victims accessing governmental post-rape services in South Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  The absence of feedback mechanisms through which rape victims can hold government accountable for the quality of post-rape service delivery informed the rationale for the intervention discussed in this report. The study aims to better understand the experiences of rape victims accessing governmental post-rape services in South Africa.
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  Technology innovation hubs and policy engagement

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  Many technology innovation hubs are developing impactful, locally relevant civic tech solutions to pressing commercial and social issues.
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  Enabling citizen engagement and accountable, responsive government: strategy synthesis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  Making All Voices Count is a programme that began with a clearly defined set of aims, a theory of change (ToC) and a structure centred on four linked components – innovation, scaling, research and evidence, and catalysing global action. In its first year, activities were carried out under each component.
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  Faith, empowerment, church and community mobilisation advocacy: insights from Tearfund’s partner in Uganda

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  Tearfund, a Christian faith-based international non-governmental organisation, has for 15 years supported local churches to mobilise communities through a process called Church and Community Mobilisation (CCM). The CCM advocacy pilot project in Uganda led to improvements in service delivery.

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