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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Understanding the politics of service delivery

Event - Workshop - 16 January 2012 09:00 - 16:30 (GMT+00)

This event showcased some recent examples of political economy and governance analysis for service delivery, to identify some of the common challenges but also potential solutions for working towards more politically informed aid interventions. A particular focus was on what this means for NGOs and other intermediary organisations which play roles in funding and delivering basic services in developing countries.

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The political economy of regional integration and regionalism in West Africa

Projects - August 2011 to January 2011

This project will examine the main national and sub-regional dynamics that influence the path to further regional integration - either positively or negatively - with a particular focus on the analysis of what key countries will stand to gain and lose from deeper regional economic integration.

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Africa Power and Politics Programme

Projects - July 2007 to June 2012

The Africa Power and Politics (APPP) is a five-year programme of research and policy engagement that aims to identify ways of ordering politics and regulating power and authority that might work better than those now in place.

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