This sourcebook provides an up-to-date overview of the most insightful approaches, frameworks and studies designed to analyse and manage political dynamics of sector reforms in the context of development cooperation.
The national roads system in Uganda is experiencing a period of exceptional activity and promise following a large increase in public spending in the sector and institutional reforms designed to enhance substantially the efficiency of this investment. This report undertakes a political economy study of the changes in the sector as a contribution to thinking about the most suitable form and content of donor support to the reform process.
event launched DFID's ‘How to Note on Political Economy Analysis’. The event provided an opportunity to present recent examples of work in the field, discuss how donors can up their game on the “thinking and acting politically” agenda and identify where outstanding challenges remain.
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.
training programme is designed to equip professional advisers and programme managers of DFID and other development agencies to identify key institutional challenges and opportunities in a variety of different contexts, and to draw operational conclusions for strategy, programme design, and ways of working.
In 2008-9, POGO members teamed up with staff of The Policy Practice to contribute ideas and draft text to the DFID team preparing a ‘How To Note’ on Political Economy Analysis.
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.
The objective of this project is to analyse the political incentives and institutional factors which are influencing the pace and shape of road building and maintenance today, with a view to informing the design of programme supporting roads institutions, and understanding the potential contribution of roads to growth.