This series comprises six discussions around the theme of ‘Demanding accountability from the bottom-up: examining what works, what does not work, and why'. The series reflects on the four years of implementing Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF) programmes such as Mwananchi in various parts of the world.
This paper is the synthesis of case studies of four Ethiopian civil society networks. he networks used the Network Functions Approach developed by the Overseas Development Institute to analyse each other through a peer review process and draw conclusions about their roles, form and functions.
This report contains the findings and lessons of the final evaluation of three DFID programmes in Latin America: the Latin America Markets and International Trade (LAMIT) programme; the Political Systems and Public Sector (PSPS) programme and the ENLACE social inclusion programme. The LAMIT and PSPS programmes were the principal components of the Latin America Regional Assistance Plan (RAP) whose implementation began in the early months of 2005.
The objective of this paper is to identify policies, programmes and legal instruments that address school violence in the developing world, and to draw implications for policy, practice and research.
This article presents a framework for analysing the impacts of evidence-informed policy entrepreneurship, and applies it to a longitudinal policy research project on childhood poverty in the developing world.
Only a decade ago was the issue of domestic workers made public by the Visayan Forum Foundation's (VF) Kasambahay (domestic worker) Program, which pioneered the work on child domestic labour and domestic workers as a sector in the Philippines
This case study presents the results of a two year-long process of policy change in the field of security in Albania. The project aimed at creating a solid and legal basis for community policing in ten Albanian regions
This case study analyses the innovative approach taken by Youth Centre 'Ikbol', in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence of Uzbekistan between 2000 and 2005, with the aim of decreasing domestic violence and gender inequalities towards women in Uzbekistan by using the military system to raise the awareness of men on women's rights and gender issues.
Through an innovative popular education project, the Popular Centre for Culture and Development (CPCD) - a Brazilian non-governmental organisation based in one of the country's poorest areas, the Jequitinhonha valley, has offered the municipality of Araçuaí, in the south-eastern State of Minas Gerais, the possibility of an educational revolution, in an attempt to combat the alarming statistics of the local educational standard.
The Coalition 2000 initiative (www.anticorruption.bg) was launched in 1998 with the aim to counteract corruption in Bulgarian society through a process of co-operation among NGOs, governmental institutions and citizens. In 2003, education was identified by the 'Corruption Monitoring System' of Coalition 2000 as a corruption-susceptible area.