Large development investment and local peacebuilding in rural Africa: building and sustaining peace at the margins
Researchers are examining how and why local peace-building efforts succeed in minimising violence in contexts where there are large new investments, focusing on the remote rural areas of Kenya and Sierra Leone, and its impacts on the poor in marginal rural areas.
Advocacy at the community level, Tanzania.
Holding local leaders and local service provision to account: the politics of implementing a local governance performance index
This research is exploring practical ways in which citizens in low income countries can hold their local leaders to account for their performance in delivering basic services and in reducing poverty.
Street protests in Dili during the mid-2006 conflict in Timor-Leste.
Understanding the tipping point of urban conflict: violence, cities, and poverty reduction in the developing world
The project aims to re-think conventional assumptions and offer new insights into the determinants of urban violence, including in particular identifying context-specific circumstances under which everyday urban conflict becomes violent.
Varanasi, India
Embedding poor people's voices in local governance: participation and political empowerment in India

Poor people’s lack of voice and influence are globally recurring themes their own accounts of their poverty, and are indicative of their wider political disempowerment. This project evaluates attempts to tackle this core element of poverty through local governance reform. Its central research question is: to what extent do participatory initiatives within local governance enhance poor people’s opportunities for political empowerment?

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