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This report summarises and analyses donor responses to the closure of civic space around the world. It is part of a wider effort within the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation to enable joint learning to support SDC offices in dealing with the growing challenges they encounter in restrained or shrinking spaces for civil society. Key Reading Document IDS for SDC 2019 Naomi Hossain & Nalini Khurana Making All Voices Count is aimed at changing the relationship between citizens and their governments in ways that open up how decisions affecting people’s lives are made. This document is the international initiative's strategy synthesis. Key Reading Document Making All Voices Count Research 2014 Karen Brock, Rosemary McGee, Marjan Besuijen This article, based on case studies in post-apartheid Johannesburg, contributes to theorizing community leadership, or informal local political leadership, by exploring Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘political capital’ and ‘double dealings’. Key Reading Document International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2014 Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Obvious Katsaura Despite global progress in putting gender ‘on the agenda’, many seemingly progressive social movements have yet to make gender equality a consistent priority in either their internal policies or their external change strategies. In some cases there is strong ideological resistance; in most cases, experience shows that gender justice is recognised as important but hasn’t received the attention or priority it deserves. Key Reading Document BRIDGE 2014 David Kelleher This policy brief gives practical answers to the following 3 questions: Why do we need social movements to be gender-just? How do we build gender-just movements? How can donors support gender justice within and through social movements? Key Reading Document BRIDGE 2014 Jessica Horn This issue of Global Trends in NGO Law examines a sample of eight assessment tools that seek to measure the state of the enabling environment for civil society in different regions and states around the world. Key Reading Document International center for not-for-profit law ICNL 2014 This book sets out to answer a deceptively simple question: how do citizens and state engage in the global south? The answer is not simple; it is indeed complex and multifaceted, but the book argues that much of the time this engagement involves a practice of intermediation. Key Reading Document Palgrave Macmillan 2014 Laurence Piper, Bettina von Lieres The past two decades have seen an explosion of political voice across the developing world. This is an extraordinarily diverse and complex landscape, with people everywhere grabbing opportunities to express their views in a
multitude of ways to influence policy and decision-making processes. It is impossible to provide a comprehensive picture of the many forms of political voice, but it is worth
highlighting some dimensions that have particular resonance today. Key Reading Document Overseas Development Institute ODI 2014 Alina Rocha Menocal This report represents a very comprehensive and multi-faceted analysis of the challenges of and pathways to mainstreaming gender justice goals and practices in social movements. Its power lies in understanding that gender justice falls off the agenda of progressive movements because they often don’t know how to situate and integrate it within their other goals and processes. By offering strategies harvested from the wisdom and practices of many committed activists and movements around the world, this report bridges this gap. Key Reading Document BRIDGE 2013 Jessica Horn This report carefully examines a range of concerns around participation’s efficiency. It outlines a conceptual framework for participation that is centered on the concept of civil society failure and how it interacts with market and government failures. Key Reading Document The World Bank 2013 Ghazala Mansuri, Vijayendra Rao The objective of this brief is to provide policymakers with strategic recommendations to support project/programme teams in strengthening SDC’s programming in civil society participation and accountability based on key learnings from the case studies. Key Reading Document SDC, Helvetas 2013 The Learning Project was launched by SDC in the framework of DLGN and mandated to HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation. Recommendations were formulated on the basis of eight case studies and four mirroring cases and were further debated in an e-discussion conducted between the 9th and the 19th of April. This document is a synthesis of the main discussion points. Key Reading Document SDC, Helvetas 2013 The study reviews the ways in which the EU provides support and cooperates with civil society in its neighbourhood. The EU should better include CSOs
in the EU-partner countries dialogue, better monitor civil society’s situation in partner countries, pay increased attention to the regulatory framework and effectively apply targeted conditionality. Key Reading Document European Parliament 2012 Julien Bousac, Laure Delcour, Věra Řihackova, Iryna Solonenko, Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan Despite the normative beliefs that underpin the concept of participation, its impact on improved democratic, and devel-
opmental outcomes has proven difficult to assess. Using a meta-case study analysis of a sample of 100 cases, this paper inductively creates a typology of four democratic and developmental outcomes. Key Reading Document Elsevier 2012 John Gaventa, Gregory Barrett An empirical study has been made of victims of conflict in Timor-Leste and Nepal seeking a qualitative understanding of local post-conflict priorities. It allows an appreciation to emerge of how the conflict-affected conceive of legitimacy and quality of governance, with victims emphasizing basic needs, an addressing of issues of marginalization and the incorporation of indigenous understandings of the meaning of peace. Key Reading Document Journal of intervention and statebuilding 2012 Simon Robins Final report on the effects of a community-driven reconstruction program in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Key Reading Document Columbia University 2012 Macartan Humphreys, Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, Peter van der Windt This document is intended as a summary of and reference guide to the Citizenship DRC’s work during the ten years it existed as a global research consortium on citizen engagement. Key Reading Document Department for International Development DFID 2011 Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability This article builds an argument based on both the article 'Participatory Development Revisited' by Ghazala Mansuri
and Vijayendra Rao, and research by Gregory Barrett and John Gaventa: “So What Difference Does it Make? Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement” (IDS working paper 347, 2010). Key Reading Document The World Bank Institute 2011 John Gaventa Civil society is laying claim to political representation in contemporary democracies, destabilizing long-standing ideas about democratic legitimacy. The participatory governance structures that have emerged alongside classic institutions of representative democracy encompass not only direct citizen participation but also political representation by civil society actors. Key Reading Document Springer Science+Business Media 2010 Peter P. Houtzager, Adrian Gurza Lavalle This essay analyzes how ‘democratic’ decentralization
reforms in most developing countries, rather than empowering representative elected local government, have often resulted in a transfer of power to a wide range of local institutions, including private bodies, customary authorities and non-governmental organizations. Key Reading Document Society for international development 2007 Jesse C. Ribot The article draws upon a range of sources and ideas to sketch a new, broader and more complex picture of the representative claim which — despite the complexity — helps us to reconnect representation theory to pressing real-world challenges. Key Reading Document Contemporary political theory journal 2006 Michael Saward Increasingly donors have picked up the challenge of building effective states as critical for effective aid that reduces poverty and helps achieve the Millennium Development Goals.This publication considers current debates on effective states and presents selected research findings from the Citizenship DRC that contain policy messages pertinent to these debates. Key Reading Document Development Research Centre Citizenship Participation and Accountability 2006 Rosalind Eyben, Sarah Ladbury This booklet introduces a new approach to measure, analyse and interpret civil society. The Civil Society Diamond, or CD, is a tool. Once fully developed, the CD will entail a civil society information system making use of a wide range of indicators and data sources. Such a system would allow for the assessment of the state of civil society by providing indications of strengths and weaknesses as well as the impact or contributions of civil society at large as well as in particular fields, and with a view to suggesting policy options. Key Reading Document CIVICUS 2001 Helmut K. Anheier
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