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Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
These challenges of power inequality, ideas and norms, complexity of implementation, and isolated and technocratic 'fixes' have contributed to public resource governance systems being 'stuck' in a vicious cycle of ineffectiveness and exclusion.
Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
The Systems Work of Social Change offers a set of relevant principles, practices and examples for how to work differently towards social change goals. However, it falls somewhat short of in terms of connecting this to broader systems change efforts.
Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
A review of "Patching Development" by Rajesh Veeraraghavan, with a comparison between state and civil society led accountability efforts for implementation of the rural employment program in India.
Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
A recent series of learning exchanges surfaced lessons about understanding, navigating and strengthening the accountability ecosystem.
Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
How do we know if our efforts to shift government are leading to more durable responsiveness or a series of one-off responses? Where does accountability fit in? A short discussion on response, responsiveness and accountability.
Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
Overview of recent think piece on the minimum wage campaign drawing on the ideas of Thomas Piketty, with insights for reformers.
Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
A collective learning exchange with Ghanaian CSOs working on fiscal governance issues led to insights on working more effectively through collective strategies and learning. However, this means moving beyond current approaches focused on narrower advocacy objectives and constrained by isolated projects.
Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
As we reflect on our engagement with grassroots actors in the SPARK program, emerging lessons are coming up around how to engage and shift budgets and services, and what it means to do so at scale.
Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
This is a longer post, but the book is 1000+ pages. This post focuses on the main ideas from Piketty's book, while the following blog focuses on the key insights for current efforts to address inequality. "Inequality is neither economic nor technological; it is ideological and political…These choices [about policy, markets, role of the state,…
Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
In a previous post, I outlined the main ideas of Thomas Piketty's monumental book Capital and Ideology. In this blog, I seek to outline ideas based on Piketty and others for addressing inequality going forward. What should we take away from Capital and Ideology? Perhaps Piketty is setting up the sequel to Capital and Ideology,…
Blog: Politics, Governance and Development
This post first appeared on the International Budget Partnership's blog here Governments around the world are at a critical juncture. Democracy is continuing to erode in countries across the globe, with increasing threats to citizens' freedoms and restrictions on civic organizations. At the same time inequality is high and rising. Frustration with governments (democratic or…
In: The journal of development studies, Band 54, Heft 3, S. 574-575
ISSN: 1743-9140
Accountability, the obligation of those in power to take responsibility for their actions, is a process involving relationships between different actors (in state and society) and mechanisms, and is influenced by many contextual factors. Using the lens of an accountability 'ecosystem' focuses our attention on the complexity of accountability processes. An 'ecosystem' perspective suggests that simple ideas about accountability – such as citizen feedback reaching decision-makers ensures more accountability, or that greater transparency equals greater accountability – are often actually much more complex. ; DFID, SIDA, USAID, Omidyar Network
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