2022
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Whose voice matters? Inclusion in local decision-making in Kenya and Lebanon
This policy brief analyses how participation and inclusivity relates to influence in local decision-making in two post-conflict contexts. Peacebuilding increasingly overlaps with development research in the turn to a local level, bottom-up approach which puts emphasis on including all groups in society in decision-making. The authors find that inclusion and participation in local decision-making can…
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Whose voice matters? Inclusion in local decision-making in Kenya and Lebanon
This policy brief analyses how participation and inclusivity relates to influence in local decision-making in two post-conflict contexts. Peacebuilding increasingly overlaps with development research in the turn to a local level, bottom-up approach which puts emphasis on including all groups in society in decision-making. The authors find that inclusion and participation in local decision-making can…
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Local Democracy Academy 2022 – Conference Proceedings
The Local Democracy Academy 2022, organized by ICLD on June 6-10, was a forum where researchers from all over the world met to share knowledge and exchange ideas on policy-relevant research for local democracy. The theme – Transformative Local Governance – generated a lot of interest, and led to sustaining researcher networks and increased understanding…
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Local Democracy Academy 2022 – Conference Proceedings
The Local Democracy Academy 2022, organized by ICLD on June 6-10, was a forum where researchers from all over the world met to share knowledge and exchange ideas on policy-relevant research for local democracy. The theme – Transformative Local Governance – generated a lot of interest, and led to sustaining researcher networks and increased understanding…
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Handbook – How to conduct democratic workshops
A summary of ICLD suggestions ICLD strives to organise all its workshops, trainings, conferences and other activities in the most democratic way possible.For the ICLD, this means organising these events so that they are as inclusive and transparent as possible, as well as ensuring active participation and that the organiser remains accountable to participants. This…
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Handbook – How to conduct democratic workshops
A summary of ICLD suggestions ICLD strives to organise all its workshops, trainings, conferences and other activities in the most democratic way possible.For the ICLD, this means organising these events so that they are as inclusive and transparent as possible, as well as ensuring active participation and that the organiser remains accountable to participants. This…
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Refugee Women’s Political Leadership: Experiences, Challenges, and Obstacles in Nyumanzi and Maaji II Refugee Settlement, Uganda
Uganda hosts the biggest number of refugees from the neighboring countries including SouthSudan, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A large share of these refugees ishosted in Uganda’s Adjumani district. Refugees as a whole face several vulnerabilities that theUganda government and UNHCR are concerned with. However, the challenges faced bywomen are particularly of concern.…
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Refugee Women’s Political Leadership: Experiences, Challenges, and Obstacles in Nyumanzi and Maaji II Refugee Settlement, Uganda
Uganda hosts the biggest number of refugees from the neighboring countries including SouthSudan, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A large share of these refugees ishosted in Uganda’s Adjumani district. Refugees as a whole face several vulnerabilities that theUganda government and UNHCR are concerned with. However, the challenges faced bywomen are particularly of concern.…
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New Stories of Resistance: The Right to Say NO, Extractivism and Development Alternatives in South Africa
Despite growing interest in movements, mobilisations and communities rising up against extractivism, little research has focused on the radical political potential these mobilisations bear for envisioning just and sustainable futures. Taking the Right to Say NO in South Africa as a case study and point of departure, this thesis examines development alternatives envisioned within anti-extractivist…
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New Stories of Resistance: The Right to Say NO, Extractivism and Development Alternatives in South Africa
Despite growing interest in movements, mobilisations and communities rising up against extractivism, little research has focused on the radical political potential these mobilisations bear for envisioning just and sustainable futures. Taking the Right to Say NO in South Africa as a case study and point of departure, this thesis examines development alternatives envisioned within anti-extractivist…