Empty pumps and rising prices: politics as usual in Joyce Banda's Malawi?
'Banda's presidency began with swift action and decisive change, but economic woes are making some Malawians anxious.'
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A smarter approach to governance in Africa
This event launches the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) synthesis report: 'Development as a collective action problem: Addressing the real challenges of African governance'. The report brings together key research from APPP's programme of work led by ODI over a five year period with teams in Benin, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
This event provides a first opportunity for readers of the report to get to grips with the APPP proposals and consider their implications.
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Synthesis report - Development as a collective action problem: adressing the real challenges of African governance
This newly-published synthesis report brings to a close the work of Africa Power and Politics (APPP) a five-year programme led by ODI with research teams in 15 African countries. -
Improving maternal health when resources are limited: Safe motherhood in rural Rwanda
5Over 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. -
Time to avoid the dictatorship v democracy debate in Africa
In this Guardian Poverty Matters blog, David Booth discusses active alternatives to the good governance agenda than Western donors are currently pushing -
Governance for development in Africa: building on what works
Should the governance of poor developing countries be based on mimicking what works in advanced capitalist democracies? Of course not. Yet for 20 years ‘good governance’ has meant exactly that.
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Working with the Grain? Rethinking African Governance
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Bulletin Vol. 42 No. 2Richard C. Crook and David Booth (eds.)At the heart of current policy thinking about Africa there is a significant knowledge gap concerning governance and development. This IDS Bulletin is concerned with what can be done about that, drawing on new findings from the research consortium, Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP). APPP is committed to discovering forms of governance that work better for development than those prescribed by the current ‘good governance’ orthodoxy. It aims to do so chiefly by examining the range of post-colonial experience in sub-Saharan Africa focusing especially on under-appreciated patterns of difference in institutions and outcomes. -
A design fit for purpose
This paper addresses the challenges posed by the construction of an appropriate a research design for a DFID Research Programme Consortium, the Africa Power and Politics Programme.
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Going with the grain in African development
Tim KelsallResponding to the disappointing results of the Good Governance agenda, the Africa Power and Politics Programme is exploring the scope for approaches which attempt to ‘work with the grain’ of African societies. This paper explores what this might mean.
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Institutions, power and policy outcomes in Africa
Goran HydenIn Africa, as elsewhere, the path or paths to development and modernity are dependent on historical institutional context, and cannot be imposed from outside. This paper compares Africa with other five models of how development occurred elsewhere.