Heather Marquette is a Senior Lecturer in Governance in IDD. She is a political scientist specializing in political development, corruption and discourses of corruption/anti-corruption, political economy analysis, and donor approaches to good governance and statebuilding. Heather is the director of IDD’s International Development (Governance and Statebuilding) programme and Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC). Jonathan … Continue reading “Helping donors to ‘think politically’: Going beyond the orthodoxy.”
African donors and Somali ownership: The elephant at the Somalia Conference
Jonathan Fisher is a lecturer in international development, researching the relationship between Western aid donors and developing states. He is particularly interested in how donors ‘construct’ perceptions of foreign governments and key concepts (eg ‘fragile state’) in international development. He is also interested in the extent to which these ‘knowledge construction’ processes are influenced by … Continue reading “African donors and Somali ownership: The elephant at the Somalia Conference”
A small blow for people’s history: the Paraguay Reader
Andrew Nickson has extensive worldwide experience of teaching, research and consultancy on public administration reform, decentralisation, and the reform of basic service delivery and regulation of privatised public utilities. He has been advisor to DFID, OECD, British Council, UN agencies, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, and the European Union on numerous consultancies. This post is … Continue reading “A small blow for people’s history: the Paraguay Reader”
Political Activism, Legal Discourses and Sexual violence in India: What Does the Delhi Rape Case Reveal?
Geetanjali Gangoli works at the Centre for Gender Violence and Research, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. She has researched and published widely in the area of gender based violence and feminist movements. Martin Rew is a Lecturer at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely on gender in … Continue reading “Political Activism, Legal Discourses and Sexual violence in India: What Does the Delhi Rape Case Reveal?”
India and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
David Cobley is a doctoral student in IDD investigating economic empowerment strategies for people with disabilities in Kenya, India and The Philippines. David has worked in the field of disability for 23 years, including managing a care home for adults with learning disabilities The 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities marked … Continue reading “India and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities”
Managing the consequences of Joanna Lumley’s campaign: Gurkhas and development in Nepal
Anna Townsend is a military wife and founder of Women Without Roofs – Nepal. She recently completed an MSc in Poverty Reduction and Development Management with IDD. She can be contacted at anna@wwr-nepal.org. In 2004 I accompanied my husband, a British Army Officer serving with the Gurkhas, to live in Kathmandu, Nepal and so began … Continue reading “Managing the consequences of Joanna Lumley’s campaign: Gurkhas and development in Nepal”
Workshop on research and evidence in international development
International development policy and practice are expected to be based on the best available evidence, but ensuring that people have the right information at the right time is not a simple task. What information and knowledge do policy-makers and practitioners need, and how do they use it? How can we manage and communicate knowledge effectively … Continue reading “Workshop on research and evidence in international development”
Statebuilding challenges for the future Timorese government
Nicolas Lemay-Hébert is a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham and research group leader, “State-building, Security and Development,” at the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security, University of Birmingham. He has conducted fieldwork in Timor-Leste (Summer 2008) for the Institutions for Fragile States Program – Princeton University. His recent … Continue reading “Statebuilding challenges for the future Timorese government”
Engaging conflict-generated diaspora communities in transitional justice
Huma Haider is a research fellow in the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre. Her areas of interest include transitional justice in the context of peacebuilding; coexistence and reconciliation in divided societies; and the participation of refugees, IDPs and diasporas. This post is based on a paper she recently presented at the international conference on Relationships between … Continue reading “Engaging conflict-generated diaspora communities in transitional justice”
Donors still can’t talk about the c-word
Heather Marquette is Senior Lecturer in Governance in IDD. Her areas of research include comparative politics; political development; African politics; state-building and governance in difficult environments; corruption, good governance and ‘moral politics’; donor approaches to anti-corruption reform; discourses on citizenship; and applied political analysis. She directs IDD’s International Development (Governance and Statebuilding) programme and is … Continue reading “Donors still can’t talk about the c-word”