Poverty-Politics-Power

Poverty, Politics & Power

 

The IDS/SDC QA Collaboration on Poverty, Politics,

and Participatory Methodologies in SDC

This area of the Poverty-Wellbeing website showcases the work happening under a Collaboration between the SDC Quality Assurance (SDC-QA) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK.


Flier: Collaboration on Poverty, Politics, and Participatory Methodologies in SDC

This flier explains the aims and objectives of this unique Collaboration and how you can get involved.  A Spanish version is also available.

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Video: The IDS/SDC QA Collaboration on Poverty, Politics, and Participatory Methodologies in SDC

 

In this video Marjoke Oosterom and Jethro Pettit from IDS explain the activities of the Collaboration. They give an example of how IDS supported the SDC country office in Cuba to design a new local governance programme with better attention for equity, power, and methodology.


30.11.2016​

New publication from IDS on Power, Poverty and Inequality

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Edited by: Marjoke Oosterom and Patta Scott Villiers / November 2016   Volume 47 Issue 5

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is pleased to launch our new IDS Bulletin on Power, Poverty and Inequality. Ten years after the landmark 2006 issue that brought us the Powercube - a practical approach to power analysis that offers a way of confronting its complexity - we return to the question of how to analyse and act on power in development.  Funded by SDC as part of the Collaboration between SDC-QA and IDS, this issue focusses on the ways in which invisible power helps perpetuate injustice and widen inequalities.

Some 14 contributors, engaged in various areas of development work, come together to explore these dynamics and make recommendations for how to reverse the negative effects of invisible power through unsettling the normal and making visible the unacceptable.

Their contributions call for ways to denaturalise norms and structures of social, political and economic inequality, so that the universal aspirations of the Sustainable Development Goals may have a chance of success.  In particular they look at the workings of power in the reproduction of norms, values and structures that produce or mitigate inequality, and ask how understanding the least visible kinds of power can help us to tackle the damaging aspects of inequality, be it injustice, misrecognition, poverty or disenfranchisement.

The Bulletin is available to download from the IDS website.