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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

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  1. Lisa Denney

    What Egypt tells us that development discourse doesn’t

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 7 February 2011
    Events in the Middle East and North Africa challenge recent development discourse in two important ways. Prevailing wisdom in relation to governance tells us: that change is never immediate, but rather achieved through incremental, long-term reforms; and, increasingly, that we need to accept the realities of political systems and work with them, including when this involves ‘big men’.
  2. Governance and citizenship from below: Views of poor and excluded groups and their vision for a New Nepal

    Publication - Discussion papers - 24 May 2009
    Nicola Jones with Binod Bhatta, Gerard Gill, Sara Pantuliano, Hukum Bahadur Singh, Deepak Timsina, Shizu Uppadhaya and David Walker

    This Working Paper - the first community-level participatory research endeavour with poor and excluded groups since the peace process - focuses on grassroots experiences and understandings of governance and citizenship, and the implications thereof for state building in post-conflict Nepal.

  3. Joint evaluation of citizens' voice and accountability

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 November 2008
    Alina Rocha Menocal and Bhavna Sharma

    This synthesis report pulls together the findings of a joint donor evaluation of support to citizen voice and accountability and seeks to identify common themes and lessons, core principles and key recommendations for improved donor practice, and areas worthy of further research.

  4. Fletcher Tembo

    Turning up the volume: Voice and accountability in Kenya

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 15 February 2008
    What began as a dispute over election results in Kenya has escalated into something much worse in recent weeks. More than 1,000 people have now been killed and around 600,000 have been forced to leave their homes. Though Kofi Annan, who is currently leading mediation talks, hopes to broker a solution to the crisis this week, it is unlikely that things will return to normal as quickly as they began. Community cohesion has been shaken, as rifts over land and power that have existed since the colonial era continue to fuel conflict and insecurity.

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