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Talking politics and development – new ways to appreciate progress

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 28 October 2011

The notion that development agencies will be more effective if they understand the politics of the places within which they work is pretty straightforward. Indeed, why would this be in any way incorrect? About a decade ago a wave of work started in development agencies based on this proposition – including DFID’s ‘drivers of change’ studies in Malawi, Zambia and Banglade

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Putting politics into practice? Political economy analysis and the practice of development

Event - Public event - 25 October 2011 16:30 - 18:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

This event, co-hosted by ODI and DAI, builds on a dialogue that ODI convened in December 2010 on how development actors might go about incorporating political insights more seriously into their work. The event will also launch a special issue of DAI’s journal Developing Alternatives on political economy analysis.

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Research report: the political economy of policy-making in Indonesia

Publication - Research reports and studies - 23 September 2011

Ajoy Datta, Harry Jones, Vita Febriany, Daniel Harris, Rika Kumala Dewi, Leni Wild and John Young

This Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and SMERU report explores the nature of policy-making in Indonesia.

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Aid effectiveness: bringing country ownership (and politics) back in

Publication - Discussion papers - 30 August 2011

ODI Working Papers 336

David Booth

This ODI Working Paper discusses how international actors can support the emergence of country-owned development efforts.

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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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Lessons on accountability in forest governance: the Mama Misitu Campaign against illegal logging in Tanzania

Publication - Briefing papers - 27 July 2011

ODI Project Briefings 57

Pilar Domingo, Daniel Harris, Cassian Sianga, Enock Chengullah and Calyst Basil Kavishe

This Project Briefing examines the experience and lessons of Tanzania's Mama Misitu Campaign for the promotion of better forest governance.

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The political economy of social accountability in Tanzania: anti-logging advocacy and the Mama Misitu Campaign

Publication - Research reports and studies - 19 July 2011

Daniel Harris, Pilar Domingo, Cassian Sianga, Enock Chengullah, and Calyst Basil Kavishe

This report draws on the findings from research undertaken as part of the Accountability in Tanzania (AcT) Programme, and examines the Mama Misitu (“Mother Forests”) Campaign (MMC).

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Politics into practice: a dialogue on performance strategies and action in international development

Publication - Research reports and studies - 8 July 2011

Leni Wild and Marta Foresti

This report summarises discussions from a policy dialogue event organised by ODI’s Politics and Governance Programme in December 2010, offering recommendations for how to put into practice more of what we know about the importance of politics in development.

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A political economy analysis of policing for women in Sierra Leone

Publication - Books or book chapters - 4 July 2011

Developing Alternatives Volume 14, Issue 1 (pp 12-17)

Lisa Denney

Based on fieldwork in Sierra Leone between February and April 2009, this chapter argues that the Family Support Units need to address the obstacles to access and engage with the informal policing providers to comprehensively improve the policing provided to women.

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