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This one-page taken from the COPRET Module 3 powerpoint shows the possible symbols used in conflict mapping, with an illustrative example from Sudan's North - South conflict.
Further Reading Document SDC 2016 This one-page document originally aimed at SDC CHR Net members is a check-list to map actors of conflict. Further Reading Document SDC 2013 This analytical framework provides a practical tool to guide DFID country office teams in designing and conducting analyses of the political economy of specific sectors and policy arenas. Further Reading Document ODI 2005 Joy Moncrieffe, Cecilia Luttrell Political economy analysis, Nicaragua, 2015. Spanish version. Further Reading Document SDC 2015 Political economy analysis in Bolivia. PowerPoint presentation in Spanish. Further Reading Document SDC 2015 This note focuses on the five relevant issues related to applied political economy analysis. It draws on more than a decade of practical experience with applied political economy in development work and aims to provide basic
guidance for newcomers to the field. Further Reading Document ODI 2013 Daniel Harris, David Booth This report addresses how the findings of a political-economy analysis can feed into a stakeholder assessment. As such, this report could be read in conjunction with the World Bankβs framework for political-economy βProblem
-driven Governance and Political Economy Analysis - Good
Practice Frameworkβ. Further Reading Document DANIDA 2011 Nils Boesen, Rikke Ingrid Jensen The understanding of capacity development in Capacity WORKS has been modified, making it more precise. The key changes are explained in this update with reference to one tool affected by the changes: βConsultancy Strategies in Capacity Developmentβ (Success Factor Strategy). Further Reading Document GTZ 2009 In recent years the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Embassies have made considerable progress in analysing the governance climate in partner countries. The Strategic Governance And Corruption Analysis (SGACA) is designed as a tool to build on and enhance those efforts, by facilitating a more strategic approach to analysing the context for governance and anti-corruption for each partner country. Further Reading Document Netherlands Institute of International Relations 2007 Sue Unsworth, Conflict Research Unit CRU This paperβs primary contribution will be to critically analyse the political economy of PEA practice to date and suggest that it is the methodology and nature of the approach itself which has been most problematic for its overall efficacy. Further Reading Document University of Birmingham 2013 Heather Marquette, Jonathan Fisher DFID is looking for ways of improving its knowledge through an approach called Drivers of Change. This 3-page note explains the Drivers of Change approach and the impact it is beginning to have on DFIDβs policies and programmes. Further Reading Document DFID 2004 The note explores how the Expected Utility Stakeholder Model could more systematically feed into Bank decisions about operational priorities and program designs. Further Reading Document World Bank 2004 This is a powerpoint presentation by John Gaventa on the power for change. It was prepared for the Novib workshop that took place in November 2007. Further Reading Document IDS 2007 John Gaventa The central objective of this refinement of the drivers of change (DoC) initiative has been to emphasize the primacy of politics in developmental processes and outcomes. This document constitutes notes of guidance for DFID offices. Further Reading Document DFID, University of York 2007 Adrian Leftwich The approach developed in this paper is not a theory of how change happens. Rather it is a framework for identifying and analysing the political processes whereby it
occurs. Further Reading Document DFID, University of York 2006 Adrian Leftwich This presentation proposes steps to incorporate PE analysis for SDC program steering. Further Reading Document SDC 2015 Jonas Frank Political economy analysis, Bolivia. Spanish version. Further Reading Document SDC 2015 Jean Bossuyt, Carlos Toranzo, Veronica Paz Arauco This Guidance Note offers ideas on undertaking country level institutional and context analysis (ICA) to develop a Country Programme and conducting an ICA at the sector or project level. Further Reading Document UNDP 2012 Claudia Melim-McLeod This paper is based on the authorβs collaboration with a range of donor agencies, including with DFID and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs to develop and implement analytical frameworks for political analysis, and more peripheral contact with the World Bank team developing problem driven governance and political economy analysis. Further Reading Document SDC 2008 Sue Unsworth This review compares and contrasts different donor approaches to conducting Power and Drivers of Change (DOC) analysis, and looks at what is being done with the findings, in order to learn lessons for future work. It draws mainly on studies conducted in four countries β Bangladesh, Bolivia, Kenya, and Tanzania β as basis for deriving findings and recommendations for this type of work. Further Reading Document OECD DAC Network on Governance 2005 Tom Dahl-Γstergaard, Sue Unsworth, Mark Robinson, Rikke Ingrid Jensen Political economy analysis is being more systematically used by development agencies to understand the real world. Much valuable work has been done in recent years in developing new analytical frameworks, generating fresh insights and applying these to problem-solving. Nigeria and Bangladesh are two positive examples where PEA has demonstrated its analytical and operational usefulness. Further Reading Document The Policy Practice 2010 Alex Duncan, Gareth Williams Drivers of Change (DoC) is an approach developed by DFID to address the lack of linkages between a countryβs political framework and the operations of development agencies. The approach focuses on βthe interplay of economic, social and political factors that support or impedeβ poverty reduction (OECD DAC, 2005). Further Reading Document DFID 2016 A 3-pager on what stakeholder analysis is.
Further Reading Document SDC 2016 The stakeholder analysis allows us to identify and analyse the different parties that can make or break a reform programme in a specific context. Further Reading Document SDC 2011 Understanding that stakeholders apply different power resources to influence reform processes. Further Reading Document SDC 2011 The analysis of distributional effects of reforms at the macro - and micro - levels looks at the access to resources of different groups and individuals as well as the distribution of
benefits and power. Further Reading Document SDC 2011 The introduction to the 'Three basic tools' document focuses on the political economy lens. Further Reading Document SDC 2011 Political economy analysis covers an expanding area of development theory and practice drawing on an extensive and dispersed body of literature. As an aid to navigating this wide-ranging subject area The Policy Practice has prepared the following annotated bibliography of key readings. Further Reading Document The Policy Practice Ltd 2012 This guidance note presents a way of analysing governance and statebuilding. It is based on an approach to political economy analysis that Norad has tried out and found helpful. The approach implies adding an analysis of the legitimacy of the state to the standard political economy analysis. It is based on an understanding of the legitimacy of the state developed in work on fragile states in OECD/DAC. Further Reading Document NORAD 2010 Eli Moen, Stein SundstΓΈl Eriksen This note is intended to provide sector- and project-based operational teams with an understanding of why and how to commission a political economy assessment. Further Reading Document World Bank 2011 Alice Poole This note synthesizes the experience of three political economy case studies: the water sector in West Bank and Gaza, the bus sector in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the port sector in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The objective is to describe the process of conducting these types of studies, and how recommendations which have a higher chance of feeding into reforms or operations can be developed. Further Reading Document World Bank 2011 With Examples from Public Reform and Territorial Dynamics. - How to think and act politically in the field of the development cooperation. Further Reading Document SDC 2015 The ODI gathered an engaging group of thoughtful practitioners and active thinkers concerned with politics in development to identify and discuss the key questions at hand and ahead. This report outlines and summarises the results of their discussions. Further Reading Document ODI 2011 Leni Wild, Marta Foresti The guide combines academic knowledge about power, how power is created and operates, and how different forms of power interplay, with experiences of conducted Power Analysis. It explains the relationship between a political economy analysis (PEA) and a power analysis and what kind of knowledge you can expect to gain from making different forms of analysis. Further Reading Document Sida 2013 Jethro Pettit This practice paper offers a simple step by step guide to help development practitioners identify the critical actors and institutions needed to facilitate or block new policies. Further Reading Document IDS, SDC 2013 AndrΓ©s MejΓa Acosta, Jethro Pettit The objective of this good practice framework is to systematize approaches to governance and political economy analysis and to provide readily available orientation for World Bank task team leaders and teams. Further Reading Document IBRD, World Bank 2009 Verena Fritz, Kai Kaiser, Brian Levy These Guidelines have been prepared to support ongoing improvements in the quality of EC development assistance. Quality is defined primarily in terms of the relevance, feasibility and effectiveness of the programmes and projects supported with EC funds, including how well they are managed. Further Reading Document European Commission 2004 There are an increasing number of political economy tools available to development agencies for a range of analytical and operational purposes. This note brings together this
material with a view to explaining the relevance and uses of political economy analysis. Further Reading Document DFID 2014 This How-to-note aims at providing an overview of where
and why do a Stakeholder Analysis within the SDC project cycle. It also briefly explains what is a Stakeholder Analysis, and which minimal standards need to be filled by SDC projects in dealing with Stakeholders.
Further Reading Document SDC 2013 Bilateral and multilateral development agencies have engaged intensively in assessing governance over the last decade. To explore opportunities for increased harmonization and alignment in this area, members of the OECD DACβs GOVNET have commissioned a survey of donor approaches to governance assessments. The survey reported here focuses on general and thematic governance assessment approaches actually used by agencies. Further Reading Document OECD 2008 The objectives of the study are twofold: to analyze the political economy of reform by looking at stakeholder interests, incentives, institutions, risks, opportunities, and processes from a social analysis perspective; and to illustrate "what works, why and how" for a better understanding and management of political economy issues in the design and implementation of reforms and development operations.
Further Reading Document World Bank 2008 Andrew Norton, Sabine Beddies This topic guide provides pointers to some of the key literature on donor approaches to political economy analysis and its effectiveness in different contexts. It includes examples of analyses and tools applied at country, sector and programme level. Further Reading Document Governance and Social Development Resource Centre GSDRC 2012 Claire Mcloughlin This note records the considerable progress made within DFID on Drivers of Change (DOC). It notes the work being
undertaken to mainstream the approach further and to ensure the knowledge produced is used regularly by country offices and headquarters alike. Further Reading Document DFID 2005 The concept paper explains what is meant by political economy analysis, why it matters fundamentally for understanding development challenges and outcomes, and the implications for donors. It also offers practical guidance
on how to undertake political economy analysis at country and sector level, and suggests how to draw on the analysis to inform every aspect of EU development activity. Further Reading Document European Commission 2012 The concept paper explains what is meant by political
economy analysis, why it matters fundamentally for understanding development challenges and outcomes, and
the implications for donors. It also offers practical guidance on how to undertake political economy analysis at country and sector level, and suggests how to draw on the analysis to inform every aspect of EU development activity, including programming, identification and formulation of specific interventions, risk management and policy dialogue. Further Reading Document European Commission 2011 Sue Unsworth, Gareth Williams
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