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2000: Volume 31

Accountablity Through Participation: Developing Workable Partnership Models in the Health Sector

Volume 31 Number 1 January 2000 Edited by: Andrea Cornwall, Henry Lucas and Kath Pasteur

In recent years there has been a major shift in attitudes from viewing communities as passive recipients of health care, to adoption of new approaches seeking to make more of the potential that active community participation might offer for enhanced accountability and improved responsiveness of services. This issue explores the challenges that have been thrown up as a result of this change of emphasis.

Men, Masculinities and Development: Politics, Policies and Practice

Volume 31 Number 2 May 2000 Edited by: Andrea Cornwall and Sarah C. White

From work in the reproductive health field involving men, to a concern about rising male unemployment and gender-based violence, men and masculinities are now very firmly on the gender and development agenda (GAD). Yet the shift towards considering men’s identities and relations as gendered subjects raises challenges that lie at the heart of GAD as a political project. This issue draws together a range of perspectives from people involved in the debate. 

Questioning Partnership: The Reality of Aid and NGO Relations

Volume 31 Number 3 July 2000 Edited by: Alan Fowler

This issue, prepared by IDS alumni, takes a critical look at the concept of ‘partnership’ in today’s official aid system. It does so from the perspective of non-governmental organisations involved in third world development (NGOs) that are directly or indirectly related to aid thinking, policy, practice and financing.

Social Policy in the South: Revisioning the Agenda

Volume 31 Number 4 October 2000 Edited by: Sarah Cook and Naila Kabeer

Worldwide changes in the context of social policy have been set in process by a combination of forces, including globalisation, economic liberalisation and transitions to democracy.

These are leading to new patterns of inequality and insecurity that in turn reveal the limitations of state-driven welfare systems and the need to involve other institutions in social provision. Social policy needs rethinking to adjust to these new realities.

This Bulletin is based on work undertaken in the initial stage of a three-year research programme on social policy in a number of transitional, emerging and poor countries.

2001: Volume 32

This is the cover to Making Law Matter: Rules, Rights and Security in the Lives of the Poor

Making Law Matter: Rules, Rights and Security in the Lives of the Poor

Volume 32 Number 1 January 2001 Edited by: Richard C. Crook and Peter P. Houtzager

After a hiatus, law has re-emerged onto the international development agenda. A number of reasons are suggested: first, the ‘good governance’ policies advocated by the international donor community see reform of the state and its relations with society as key elements in promoting market-led growth.

Second, more legitimate and effective legal institutions are needed to protect citizen’s rights, limit the actions of corrupt state officials and protect the livelihoods of poor people. Then, there is an emerging concern with the legally defined concept of citizenship. Finally, questions of policing, access to justice and judicial reform are near the top of many national agendas, after levels of crime, civil disorder and violence have risen in the cities of the developing world.

The articles in this Bulletin are the product of an international workshop that considered these issues, held at IDS in June 2000.