A range of issues on governance, participation, and accountability, including: citizenship, planning, economic investment, rights, and environmental impact.
Unpicking power and politics for transformative change: resources
Resources include a filmed record, Wakelet story, workshop report and a series of blogs related to a three-day workshop "Unpicking power and politics for transformative change: Towards accountability for health equity" which took place in July 2017.
Principal Investigator: Servaas Van Der Berg. Lead Organisation: Stellenbosch University
Co-investigators: Nicholas Andrew Spaull; Ursula Kate Hoadley; Jaamia Galant; Nicholas Christopher Taylor
News: Power, politics and health equity
A recent Health and Accountability workshop attracted between 80-90 participants from donors, multilateral agencies, national and global civil society, and research institutions over three days. ‘Unpicking power and politics for transformative change: Towards accountability for health equity’ aimed to critically examine the practices and politics shaping accountability in health systems from the local to the global levels.
Blog: Has politics shaped the terms ‘accountability’ and ‘participation’?
In his blog Has politics shaped the terms 'accountability' and 'participation'? Luiz Eduardo Fonseca explores how politics has shaped the meaning of the terms 'accountability' and 'participation'.
Blog: Towards accountability for health equity
The Sustainable Development Goals set out an ambitious agenda to achieve universal health coverage for all but how will this goal be reached when we have seen already the ease with which reformed health services and refreshed health resources still fail to reach the people who need them most? An international workshop discusses "Unpicking Power and Politics for Transformative Change: Towards Accountability for Health Equity" at IDS from 19 to 21 July.
Principal Investigator: Alexander Shankland. Lead Organisation: Institute of Development Studies
Co-investigators: Gerald Bloom; Vera Coelho; Denise Namburete; Hayley Nan MacGregor; Rosemary McGee; Anuradha Joshi
Training resources on policy engagement and communications
Health Systems Global and The Impact Initiative have developed a range of training resources for researchers on: presentations; engaging with the media; policy engagement; and using social media.
Blog: Building the bridge between policy, practice and research
Dr Agata D’Addato, Senior Policy Coordinator, Eurochild highlights a number of key results in putting children at the heart of policy making and introduces the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty Research day which is taking place at the Institute of Development Studies, UK on on 18th November 2016.
Blog: Obama’s Global Food Security Act - a new global politics of provisions?
Terrorist attacks and a related rash of populist political uprisings in this hot and hungry El Nino season of mid-2016 pushed at least one event off the headlines it should rightly have occupied. This was the passage of the United States Government’s ‘Global Food Security Act of 2016’, signed by President Obama in July. Naomi Hossein, a Research Fellow in the Power and Popular Politics Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies, explores the global politics of food provision.
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