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The majority of documented social accountability initiatives to date have been ‘tactical’ in nature, employing single-tool, mostly community-based approaches. This article provides lessons from a ‘strategic’, multi-tool, multi-level social accountability project: UNICEF’s ‘Social Accountability for Every Woman Every Child’ intervention in Malawi.
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In development, there have been a considerable number of calls from academics, practitioners, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), community leadership, and grassroots activists to ground development principles and efforts in people’s own experiences, using their own cultural resources. It is important because grounding development in people’s own experiences represents a shift away from the paternalism of the past and recognizes the lived realities of beneficiary communities and,...
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This research snapshot examines the practice of Theatre for Development (TfD) in Malawi. It argues that, recently, Malawian TfD has been restricted to a tool for advancing the agendas and the goals of local NGOs funders rather than a real process of community transformation. It suggests that Paulo Freire’s problem-posing, or dialogical pedagogy — a method of learning where teacher and learner, as equals, engage in a collaborative process of problem exploration and solution finding — has been...
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Theatre for a Change (TfaC) uses innovative strategies to empower vulnerable and marginalized groups through positive behaviour change and advocacy of gender and sexual equality. Adapting their practice from Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre, TfaC's aims to change attitudes towards gender and sexuality in specific communities within Malawi. When TfaC recognized that the Protagonist in their Forum Plays was predominantly female, re-enforcing the stereotype of women within these communities, they...
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What can explain the apparent lack of political will to formulate, implement and monitor the budget process and public financial management in accordance with the overall goals of the Malawi Poverty Reduction Strategy (MPRS)? Using qualitative methodology the findings are drawn from the content of documents, transcripts of interviews and to some extent, direct observations. 62 key informant interviews (KII) were carried out with stakeholders in the budget process from government, civil...
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Community theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens. It is practised all over the world by growing numbers of people. Published at the same time as a video of the same name, this is a unique record of these theatre groups in action. Based on van Erven's own travels and experiences working with community theatre groups in six very different...