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Benequista, N
Backed by Popular Demand: Citizen Actions for Accountability, Citizenship DRC Case Study Series
This two-page document summarises research into the Bangladesh garment export sector, showing that a context where co...
This two-page document summarises research into the Bangladesh garment export sector, showing that a context where companies adhere to codes of conduct is not the same as a culture of accountability where citizens mobilise to hold their employers and other companies to account.
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Benequista, N
Backed by Popular Demand: Citizen Actions for Accountability, Citizenship DRC Case Study Series
This two-page document summarises research into the strategies taken by tenement housing residents to claim their rig...
This two-page document summarises research into the strategies taken by tenement housing residents to claim their rights.
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Benequista, N
Backed by Popular Demand: Citizen Actions for Accountability, Citizenship DRC Case Study Series
This brief research summary describes how Researchers from the Theatre for Development Centre (TFDC) at Ahmadu Bello ...
This brief research summary describes how Researchers from the Theatre for Development Centre (TFDC) at Ahmadu Bello University used participatory theatre as a methodology for encouraging discussion among communities of the Niger Delta on the breakdown in accountability of local and state leaders to citizens.
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Benequista, N
Backed by Popular Demand: Citizen Actions for Accountability, Citizenship DRC Case Study Series
This two-page document describes an action research project that sought to restore accountability in the management o...
This two-page document describes an action research project that sought to restore accountability in the management of water resources - through institutions that linked indigenous communities in the hills of southern Veracruz and municipal governments along the coast.
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Mahmud, S
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed.
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Mohanty, R
In Tandon, R. and Kak, M. (eds). Citizen Participation and Democratic Governance, Delhi: Concept Publishers
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Wheeler, J & P, Newell
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed.
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Cornwall, A, Cordeiro, S & N, Giordano Delgado
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed.
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Pare, L & C, Cortez Ruiz
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed
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Nyamu-Musembi, C
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed
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Pare, L & C, Robles
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed
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Mehta, L
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed
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Mahmud, S & N, Kabeer
in P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed
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Newell, P
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed.
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Wheeler, J & P, Newell
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed.
Many conflicts in development can be understood as struggles by the poor to hold the powerful to account. Contests ov...
Many conflicts in development can be understood as struggles by the poor to hold the powerful to account. Contests over the rights and responsibilities of actors in development are increasing in intensity amid clashes between the promotion of a rights-based approach to development and market-based notions of access and entitlement to resources. How these conflicts are played out has enormous implications for efforts to tackle poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Understanding how the poor claim their rights and demand accountability for the realisation of those rights becomes critical. This book contributes to such an understanding by exploring how poorer groups mobilise around rights to resources in a diversity of settings, employing a broad range of strategies to achieve accountability. It places accountability at the intersection between rights and resources, asking: what is the relationship between greater accountability and peopleâs ability to realise their rights to resources?
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Wheeler, J & P, Newell
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed
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Wheeler, J & P, Newell
IDS Policy Briefing, No. 33
A policy briefing which looks at the central debates on accountability, dispels some myths, identifies some cases dra...
A policy briefing which looks at the central debates on accountability, dispels some myths, identifies some cases drawn from recent research on citizen participation and accountability and addresses policy implications.
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Anand, V, Newell, P, Ranga Rao, ABSV , Arjjumen, H, Jaitli, H & S , Kumar
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed.
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Newell, P & R, Lekhi
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed
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Luce, S
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed
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Okwori, JZ & OS, Abah
In P Newell & J Wheeler (eds) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed.
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Clark, C, Miller, V & L , VeneKlasen
IDS Bulletin, 36(1)
Surprisingly, the rich history of rights and participatory approaches is relatively unknown to
<br/>many development ...
Surprisingly, the rich history of rights and participatory approaches is relatively unknown to
many development and rights practitioners. Consequently, historical insights applicable to todayâs challenges of inequality and exclusion often remain untapped.Drawing on our 30-year practical experience and related research on these efforts, this article will examine three main areas of past innovation and thinking that link rights and participation and explore how they address power and encourage critical consciousness and citizenship. First we will trace diverse historical and conceptual streams shaping participatory approaches, and then will examine specific legal rights strategies and womenâs rights experiences from the last several decades.
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Holland, J, Brocklesby, MA & J, Blackburn
IDS Bulletin 36(1)
Throughout the 1990s, debates about human rights and development increasingly converged. With a
<br/>renewed focus on...
Throughout the 1990s, debates about human rights and development increasingly converged. With a
renewed focus on poverty reduction, international agencies have moved away from a narrow concern
with the poverty line to attempt more directly to understand the underlying dynamics of poverty in
any particular society or context. This shift has been supported by the increasing use of powerful
analytical frameworks developed from theoretical work by Sen on entitlements and capabilities, from the food security literature of the 1980s and later work on vulnerability. Significantly, this has moved policy debates away from a focus on assessing and responding to needs, a process that in the past has not necessarily disturbed existing allocations of entitlements...
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Mwasaru, M
IDS Bulletin, 36(1)
These reflections arise from two related concerns. First, the worsening conditions of poverty in poor countries despi...
These reflections arise from two related concerns. First, the worsening conditions of poverty in poor countries despite numerous development projects by governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) aimed at improving lives of poor people. Second, the phenomenon of parallelism(or even hostility) between development and human rights programmes, at least in Kenya.
The core questions I reflect upon here are: what possible strategies for change lie beyond the formal socio-economic approaches and models used in official poverty reduction programmes? What can ârights approachesâ offer and what can be learned from the emergence of social movements for rights in the struggle against poverty? My reflections are based upon study visits to Haiti and the Philippines and on the experience of Kenya, with a focus on the relationship between struggles for social reforms, human rights and the fight against poverty...
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Okwori, JZ, Abah, OS, Okpe, M & K, Ghitis
TFDC Policy Briefing, Issue 2
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Newell, P
International Affairs, 81(3): 541-57.
The focus of this article on the relationship between companies and local communities derives from a concern that man...
The focus of this article on the relationship between companies and local communities derives from a concern that many accounts of corporate responsibility and citizenship overlook this relationshipâin particular, relations with poorer communitiesâas part of a general neglect of the developmental implications of the CSR agenda. Communities are engaging with corporations more routinely now than previously, a trend fostered by the lowering of barriers to trade through global trade accords, attempts to strengthen the rights of foreign investors and broader processes of national liberalization across many parts of the developing world. Increasingly they do so in ways that assume global significance because of new forms of global organizing and the influence of media and telecommunications, which expose companiesâ activities to greater scrutiny, as well as the nature of the claims companies themselves now make about their global operations...
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Newell, P & N, Garvey
Development in Practice, 15(3-4): 389-404
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Nyamu-Musembi, C & S , Musyoki
IDS Bulletin, 36(1)
This article documents and discusses the experiences of a movement of low-income council tenants in three housing est...
This article documents and discusses the experiences of a movement of low-income council tenants in three housing estates in Mombasa, Kenyaâs largest coastal city. The focus of the struggle has been on attaining secure and dignified living conditions. The tenantsâ struggle illustrates that there is not only clear articulation of rights at the grassroots level, but also the seeds for an expansion of the arena of legally recognised rights as well as an innovative combination of strategies for realising rights and forcing institutions to be accountable and responsive. This points to the potential of grassroots movements to be the driving force for a more sustainable practice of rights and rights-based development, a point that cannot be overstated in
the context of Kenya where professional rights advocacy groups are only beginning to support and
take account of the contribution that grassroots movements make to the practice of human rights.
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Luce, S
IDS Working Paper 250
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Pare, L & C, Robles
Mirada Antropologica, 4: 74- 103
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Arjjumand, H
PRIA Study Report
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Pare, L & C, Robles
In Ziccardi, A (ed) Participación ciudadana y políticas sociales en el Ámbito local. Mexico-DF: UNAM- Indesol-Comecso
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Ranga Rao, ABSV & RD, Sampath Kumar
PRIA Study Report, No. 5
The present report is an outcome of PRIA's research study on at Paravada Mandal, Vishakapatnam District, Andhra Prade...
The present report is an outcome of PRIA's research study on at Paravada Mandal, Vishakapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh. This study was carried out to examine the role played by the different stakeholders in the setting up of the Simhadri Thermal Power Project and also to find out the citizen's initiatives in the protection of their rights and privileges...
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IDS Working Paper 227
This paper investigates how, when and why community-based strategies are effective in promoting corporate accountabil...
This paper investigates how, when and why community-based strategies are effective in promoting corporate accountability to the poor. It argues that mainstream approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR) underestimate the importance of power in the relationship between corporations and the communities they invest in, which limit their applicability to many developing country contexts in particular. In helping to address this neglect we draw on literatures on power, accountability and citizen participation in order to analyse 46 cases where communities have attempted to hold corporations to account for their social and environmental responsibilities. The paper argues that more attention should be paid to a number of state-, corporation- and community-related factors, which are found to be key to the effectiveness of strategies aimed at providing corporate accountability to the poor.
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Anand, V
PRIA Study Report, No. 4, March
This study looks at an industrial zone where the government and the industries have started the process of developmen...
This study looks at an industrial zone where the government and the industries have started the process of development with specific goals and objectives. The study also provides a glimpse of the various stakeholders and their understanding and experience in the industrial development process and their role as stakeholders in seeking and negotiating for accountability from the dominant groups. The paper concludes that the many parties involved in the process need to have a common vision or they function at counter purposes. A silent and invisible stakeholder is the ecosystem; unless and until this ecosystem is not safeguarded and its destruction prevented, the stakeholders will not achieve much. Industrial development can contribute to sustainable development only if the industries and the government recognise the rights and importance of the various stakeholders and decide the development process in unison.
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Mokhopadhyay, S
PRIA Study Report
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Misra, S
PRIA Study Report
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Newell, P & S, Bellour
DRC-IIS/UNAM Documento de Trabajo No 2
Este documento ofrece una visión general sobre los usos y aplicaciones polÃticas del término ârendición de cuen...
Este documento ofrece una visión general sobre los usos y aplicaciones polÃticas del término ârendición de cuentasâ 1 en el discurso y las prácticas de desarrollo contemporáneas. La primera parte aborda los orÃgenes históricos de los diversos y contradictorios recuentos sobre el tema, y lo que significa rendir cuentas para los actores y los procesos en que están inmersos. La segunda sección versa sobre las herramientas, estrategias y procesos de rendición de cuentas en escenarios formales e informales, evaluando el papel de la ley, de la protesta y de una diversidad de enfoques gerenciales para la creación de mecanismos de rendición de cuentas. La tercera sección analiza la manera en que los recuentos sobre una diversidad de prácticas de rendición de cuentas se refieren a los actores clave del desarrollo, tradicionalmente al estado-nación, pero también cada vez más a la autoridad pública en los niveles supra y sub-estatal asà como a los sectores privado y no-gubernamental.
El argumento que aquà se desarrolla es, en primer lugar, que en el derecho a exigir y en la capacidad y disposición para responder a dichas exigencias, se expresan relaciones de poder. El hecho es que la función misma de la rendición de cuentas es asegurar que quienes ejercen el poder a nombre de otros asuman la responsabilidad de sus actos. En segundo lugar, estas relaciones de poder tienen una dinámica de flujos, que refleja las conflictivas relaciones entre los actores del estado, de la sociedad civil y del mercado. Estas relaciones por un lado generan y por el otro limitan las posibilidades de nuevas formas de rendición de cuentas en la medida en que producen transformaciones concretas en la organización de la autoridad polÃtica.
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Hughes, A
IDS Bulletin, 33(2)
In the early 1990s, in Mexicos state of Oaxaca, an organisation made up of four indigenous communities in the Sierra ...
In the early 1990s, in Mexicos state of Oaxaca, an organisation made up of four indigenous communities in the Sierra Ju·rez, the UZACHI, negotiated a bioprospecting contract with the multinational pharmaceutical company Sandoz. The local civil society (CS) actors directly involved in negotiating and carrying out the project consider their bioprospecting experience a positive one that could contribute significantly to the communities longer term sustainable development process. In contrast, neighbouring community representatives and CS organisations, as well as NGOs of national and international scope, publicly condemn the initiative. In this article the UZACHI-Sandoz case is employed to illustrate the challenges associated with civil society accountability (CSA) in the context of a struggle for contested rights associated with biodiversity conservation and development. In looking at civil societys role in Mexicos debate around bioprospecting, it explores a number of questions that are raised regarding the way CS representation, responsibility, and voice are played out.
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A, Gurza Lavalle, Pare, L, Robles, C & C, Cortez Ruiz
IDS Bulletin 33(2)
In south-eastern Mexico, indigenous communities and civil organisations are striving to influence national policy aro...
In south-eastern Mexico, indigenous communities and civil organisations are striving to influence national policy around property, production and environmental issues. These struggles are integral to these groups broader demands which call for recognition of their identities, rights and cultures. However, the voices and claims of indigenous groups are at odds with the wider official discourse of globalisation and economic integration. A central issue that highlights the conflict between broad macro visions of development, and local indigenous visions, is that of ownership, use and management of natural resources. This article seeks to contribute some theoretical elements to the analysis of the use and management of natural resources, and to show how this relates to wider debates about development.
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Newell, P & S, Bellour
IDS Working Paper 168
This paper provides an overview of the political uses and applications of the term accountability in contemporary dis...
This paper provides an overview of the political uses and applications of the term accountability in contemporary discourses and practices of development. The first part reflects on the historical origins of competing narratives of accountability and what it means for actors, and the processes in which they are embedded, to be accountable. The second section looks at tools, strategies and processes of accountability in formal and informal arenas, assessing the role of law, protest and a variety of managerial approaches in the creation of mechanisms of accountability. The third section looks at how the narratives of accountability, manifested in these diverse practices of accountability, apply to key development actors, traditionally the nation-state, but increasingly also public authority at supra and sub-state levels and the private and non-governmental sectors.
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Newell, P
IDS Bulletin 33(2)
There is now widespread debate about the rights and responsibilities of global corporations. Increasingly the languag...
There is now widespread debate about the rights and responsibilities of global corporations. Increasingly the language of citizenship is being invoked in order to understand the relationship between rights and obligations. This paper seeks, firstly, to locate this debate historically, by looking at how understandings of accountability have evolved alongside shifts in thinking about the role of key actors in development. The second section interrogates the relationship between corporate accountability and citizenship, exploring the way in which early emphasis on the social responsibilities of firms has been eclipsed by claims about their entitlements as citizens. The third section looks at the extent to which notions of corporate citizenship can be meaningfully applied to relations between mobile capital and poor communities. It is suggested that depoliticised notions of citizenship as partnership serve to obscure the power inequities that characterise such relationships. Drawing on examples from North and South where poor communities have been negatively affected by the investment practices of multinational companies, the fourth section suggests the circumstances in which poor communities may be able to construct new relations of accountability with corporations.
