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Handbook on information, consultation and public participation in policy making
OECD Development Centre, 2001Practitioner’s guide designed for use by government officials. It offers a practical “road map” for building robust frameworks for informing, consulting and engaging citizens during policy-making.DocumentGlobal accountability report
One World Trust, 2003Report compares the accountability of Inter-governmental Organisations (IGOs), Trans-national Corporations (TNCs) and International NGOs, assessing eighteen of the world’s most powerful organisations.DocumentDemocratic decentralization of natural resources: institutionalizing popular participation
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002Series of case studies exploring the how natural resource decentralizations have taken place and their measurable social and environmental outcomes.DocumentCitizenship and the boundaries of the acknowledged community: identity, affiliation and exclusion
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002This working paper examines the interaction of two different forms of citizen belonging, and the rights and responsibilities associated with these: membership of the imagined community of the nation-statemembership of various acknowledged communities at the sub-national level. In these two levels, the author investigates processes of access and exclusion – both separately andDocumentMapping accountability: origins, contexts and implications for development
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002This paper provides an overview of the political uses and applications of the term accountability in contemporary discourses and practices of development. The first part reflects on the historical origins of competing narratives of accountability and what it means for actors, and the processes in which they are embedded, to be accountable.DocumentMaking spaces, changing places: situating participation in development
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002Using the concept of space as a lens through which to view practices of participation, this paper seeks to explore issues of power and difference in the making and shaping of spaces for participation in development.DocumentAssessing participation in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: a desk-based synthesis of experience in sub-Saharan Africa
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002How participatory is the process of producing Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)?DocumentFrom the roots up: strengthening organisational capacity through guided self-assessment
World Neighbors, 2000This guide provides a set of practical tools and methods for organisational capacity building through the guided self-assessment approach, contextualised with insights into the major trends in development and perspectives in capacity assessment.DocumentTowards an actor-oriented perspective on human rights
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002The document argues that looking for the meaning of rights from the perspective of those claiming them pushes the boundaries of conventional human rights debates and expands the range of claims that can be validated as rights.The paper draws out these 'actor-oriented' perspectives through a discussion of four key debates that have preoccupied human rights scholars and practitioners, challengingDocumentParticipation and accountability in health systems: the missing factor in equity?
EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2000This paper discusses how to improve equity in health systems. In particular, it argues that social dimensions such as social networking, participation and governance are critical factors for vertical equity in health systems.Pages