A Farmers' Jury

Stuart Coupe, Jon Hellin, Absolom Masendeke, Elijah Rusike

This ITDG Working Paper analyses the experience of a farmers' jury in Zimbabwe. Representatives of poor farmers mapped out their vision for the future of agriculture in their country after hearing from policy makers and technical experts of every shade of opinion. The ITDG Working Papers are designe...

Food Sovereignty

Michael Windfuhr, Jennie Jonsén

Food Sovereignty is the new policy framework proposition for the governance of food and agriculture. It embraces policies not only for localising the control of production and markets, but also for the Right to Food, people’s access to and control over land, water and genetic resources, and for pro...

Foreign Territory

David McKeever, Jessica Scultz, Sophia Swithern

European Union asylum policy is shifting overseas. The politicisation of asylum-related issues and the desire to manage migration are the forces behind a wave of new internationalised initiatives which could have a serious impact on the lives of refugees.

Funding Local Governance

Jo Beall

International development is replete with examples of failure. This has led to notes of cynicism being struck in commentaries on development, whether in relation to failed states, donor ineptitude or the unaccountability of NGOs. Precisely because the grand visions have not been realized and macro-l...

Gender, Development, and Advocacy

Koos Kingma, Caroline Sweetman

Advocacy for gender equality occurs at all levels of society--from grassroots women demanding community-level change to sophisticated coalition-building that promotes change to international trade laws. Articles in this collection chart the experience, challenges, and successes of gender equality ad...

Beyond Access

Sheila Aikman, Elaine Unterhalter

In a world in which poverty, social prejudice and poor-quality provision cause an estimated 100 million girls to drop out of school before completing their primary education, it is not enough for governments to pledge themselves to increase girls' access to school. This book presents a vision of a t...

Bridging Research and Policy in Development

Julius Court

This is a crucial book for international development researchers who want the lessons of their research converted into changes in government and aid agency policy. International policy making is extremely complex and little studied. This book reviews what we do already know and provides a concept...

Building Bridges with the Grassroots

Otto Ruskulis

Theo Schilderman

About one billion people now live in the slums of the towns and cities of the developing world. And their number is set to double by 2030, unless concerted efforts are made to the contrary. Slums provide an unhealthy and dangerous living environment, and improving the living conditions of slum dwell...

Communities and Communication

Patrick Wakely, Elizabeth Riley

The current paradigm of partnership in urban development and management is widely used and accepted but there is little understanding of what makes partnerships work or fail. The broad premise that underpins this book is that a partnership is a relationship based on an agreement to share both benefi...

Connecting the First Mile

Surmaya Talyarkhan, David Grimshaw, Lucky Lowe

This paper summarizes the findings from a research project conducted by ITDG and Cranfield School of Management (Bedford, UK) into using ICTs (like the Internet or mobile telephony) to share information with people at grassroots level - "connecting the first mile".