Vikki Chambers

Research Officer, Politics and Governance

Vikki Chambers has a particular interest in governance and neo-patrimonialism with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. She is a member of the ‘Africa Power and Politics Programme’ (APPP) which aims to identify forms of governance that work better for development and poverty reduction. She currently contributes to the APPP’s local governance and leadership research stream, which aims to generate propositions about how governance arrangements determine the ability of local administrative areas to deal with challenges faced in the provision of public goods.

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Delivering maternal health: why is Rwanda doing better than Malawi, Niger and Uganda?

Publication - Briefing papers - 31 May 2012

ODI Briefings 74

Vikki Chambers, David Booth

This Briefing Paper uses new research from the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) to explore the institutional factors that shape maternal health outcomes in Malawi, Niger, Rwanda and Uganda.

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Why were regional institutions unable to avert Mali's political crisis?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 2 May 2012

'Current policy focus within the international community on the importance of regional bodies places too much attention on high-profile political groupings...To engage more effectively, it should look more closely at sub-regional and informal groupings and alliances. This involves a better understanding of the intricacies of west African politics and the power structures of sub-regional groupings.'

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Political economy of regionalism in West Africa

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 March 2012

Vikki Chambers, Marta Foresti and Daniel Harris

This report provides the final recommendations of a scoping exercise intended to identify priorities among various dimensions of West African regionalism that might be the focus of useful political-economy work.

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Is the bride too beautiful? Safe motherhood in rural Rwanda

Publication - Research reports and studies - 13 March 2012

Africa Power and Politics Research Reports 4

Vikki Chambers and Frederick Golooba-Mutebi

This report identifies the institutional arrangements which have enabled Rwanda to achieve significant improvement in ensuring safe motherhood for growing numbers of women in rural Rwanda.

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Improving maternal health when resources are limited: Safe motherhood in rural Rwanda

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 February 2012

Vikki Chambers

Over the past decade, Rwanda has managed to overcome many of the critical bottlenecks to make impressive progress on maternal health. This policy brief documents the progress being made and indicates that service delivery bottlenecks can be overcome without additional material resources.

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