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    An upside down view of governance

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    Prescriptive donor aid practices have long caused consternation amongst development researchers and practitioners. The aid effectiveness agenda sought to instead empower recipient development governments by insisting that donors work through existing country systems and thus encourage ownership. However does the Paris Declaration et al go far enough?
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    Advocacy in the age of authoritarianism: adjustments of all sorts in Egypt

    M. Tadros / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    The focus of this paper is on the top-down introduction of advocacy in the Egyptian context in the 1990s as part of the bid to promote democratisation in the Arab world. The paper argues that in authoritarian contexts, participatory advocacy is contrary to the inhibitive policy environment and the nature of the political culture in place.
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    The role of media in fragile situations: a research dialogue across disciplines

    World Service Trust BBC / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    There has been growing evidence in recent years about the significant role of media in determining governance and development outcomes in states often described as fragile, or thought to be experiencing fragility. This report presents the deliberations at a symposium on this theme.
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    Voice and Women's Empowerment: Mapping a Research Agenda

    A. M. Goetz, C. Nyamu / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    How is 'women's political voice' measured? What does 'representation' really mean? Too often women's political voice in public decision making is measured by the number of women in public office.
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    New Narratives of Women's Empowerment

    A. Cornwall / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Empowerment, once seen as a radical concept, has been 'mainstreamed' within and outside of development - and in this process, has lost its power and become 'en-ment' or 'empowerment-lite'. This was one of the central arguments put forward in a keynote lecture by IDS Research Fellow and Director of the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium, Andrea Cornwall.
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    Women's Empowerment Needs a People-Centred Economy

    R. Eyben, M. Fontana / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    In 2006 the World Bank coined the slogan 'Gender equality is smart economics'. The argument was that pushing women into paid employment or making it easier for them to establish a business leads to reduced poverty and faster growth.
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    Unsafe Abortion: A Development Issue

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Abortion is an increasingly controversial issue, provoking strong reactions both 'for' and 'against'. Language used in disputes over access to safe and legal abortion indicates the polarisation of debates: pro-choice versus pro-life; pro-abortion versus anti-choice.
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    Conceptualising Women's Empowerment in International Development Agencies, Draft Pathways Working Paper 6

    R. Eyben, R. Napier-Moore / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    How have meanings of women's empowerment changed since the 1990's? Based on an analysis of interviews and texts, this paper traces those historical changes and maps different ways in which the concept of women's empowerment is used and understood in international development agencies.
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    Changing Narratives of Sexuality - Concept Paper

    C. Pereira / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    "This paper explores ways in which heterosexuality is reinforced as the norm by the media, the law, religion and the development industry. It looks at different perceptions of sexuality and ways in which these are shifting. It also considers how they provide the foundations for broader notions of 'normal' sexuality, relationships and households which in turn underpin male privilege.
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    Conceptualising Policy Practices in Researching Pathways of Women's Empowerment

    R. Eyben / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    What do we mean by a shift in policy? And who is a policy actor? These are two of the questions addressed in this paper. Intended to assist women's rights policy activists and policy makers, the paper encourages a move away from a linear notion of change to a focus on transformative change, which takes into account unpredictability and social complexity.

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