{"title":"Localisation and Locally Led Development in the Post-consensus Era: Transformation, Stagnation, or Annihilation?","authors":"Susan P Murphy, Maeve McGandy","doi":"10.1057/s41287-025-00734-4","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41287-025-00734-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the polycrisis of global ecological, political, economic and societal breakdown interacts and unfolds across sites and scales, the need to reform and reorient the international development cooperation regime is urgent. Locally led development (LLD) emerged as a panacea for development ineffectiveness across successive policy paradigms from the Washington Consensus to the Wall Street Consensus. Why such a scalar reorientation is gaining renewed traction, whether this signals a substantive shift towards transformative change in how development is conceptualised and practiced, and how this will influence the development paradigm, remains underexplored. To address these questions, this paper critically analyses the policies and practices of thirty-two institutional donors to assess the extent to which localisation and LLD are recognised and operationalised, enabled and constrained in practice. We offer insights on the current conjuncture and the potentialities within LLD to catalyse disruptive rather than destructive forces and transform development in a post-consensus era.</p>","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"38 2","pages":"191-215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13076224/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lynn Cockburn, Ellen Murray, Julius Tanyu Nganji, Pedro H T Q de Almeida, Soomin Lee, Che Dieudonne Nkemchap, Louis Mbibeh, Kometa Sunday Shende, Nde Vitalis Tangeh, Marc Stephan Nkouly
{"title":"Promoting Inclusion and Mitigating Digital Divide Impacts in International Development Research Teams: The PIRL Project.","authors":"Lynn Cockburn, Ellen Murray, Julius Tanyu Nganji, Pedro H T Q de Almeida, Soomin Lee, Che Dieudonne Nkemchap, Louis Mbibeh, Kometa Sunday Shende, Nde Vitalis Tangeh, Marc Stephan Nkouly","doi":"10.1057/s41287-026-00754-8","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41287-026-00754-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To conduct high-quality international development research, teams must fully include diverse researchers who contribute to knowledge creation. This paper highlights the often-overlooked digital divide within international research teams and examines how systematically creating a collaborative plan and process that addresses use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) within research teams can improve inclusion, particularly for researchers with disabilities, from different geographic locations and income levels. We used a cross-sectional, mixed methods, participatory research approach to collect data from members of the PIRL Project, who lived primarily in North America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Members included community and academic researchers, some with disabilities, low incomes, and differing educational and employment backgrounds, all with a shared objective to collaboratively improve research capabilities. Mitigation strategies to overcome digital divide inequities included collaborative ICT planning, use of smartphones, free apps, and training. The Capability Approach framed reflexive analysis of the results.</p>","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"38 5","pages":"736-759"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13614889/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149064864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Challenges of Decolonising Sustainability and the Environment in Development Studies (DS).","authors":"Lyla Mehta","doi":"10.1057/s41287-025-00700-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-025-00700-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This think-piece makes a case for addressing the colonial roots of sustainability. It examines how enduring colonial mechanisms and biases have led to certain forms of value and valuing, problematic views of 'pristine nature' and processes of extractivism. These in turn have led to dispossession and violence, especially for Indigenous and marginalised communities in the majority world. It explores how studies on the environment and sustainability have sought to implicitly or explicitly challenge these colonial biases and their impacts. Researchers working on the environment, gender and sustainability have brought together Development Studies (DS) with science technology studies (STS), (feminist) political ecology, anthropology and feminist epistemology. This has resulted in strong engagements with the politics of knowledge, the colonial roots of environmental problems and the need to lift the perspectives and voices of historically marginalised groups to promote alternative ways of doing and understanding development and nature/society relations. Researchers working in other fields of DS could do more to draw on these diverse perspectives, especially since epistemic and material inequalities and power structures are interlinked and mutually reinforcing. I also focus on the dangers of decolonisation becoming a buzzword without much change in actual practices in ways of working and collaborating.</p>","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"37 2","pages":"454-466"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12048338/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144024641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saugato Datta, Joshua Martin, Catherine MacLeod, Laura B. Rawlings, Andrea Vermehren
{"title":"Do Behavioral Interventions Enhance the Effects of Cash on Early Childhood Development and Its Determinants? Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Madagascar","authors":"Saugato Datta, Joshua Martin, Catherine MacLeod, Laura B. Rawlings, Andrea Vermehren","doi":"10.1057/s41287-023-00603-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-023-00603-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135482611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of High-Value Agriculture in Capability Expansion: Qualitative Insights into Smallholder Cash Crop Production in Nepal, Laos and Rwanda","authors":"Marie-Luise Matthys, Patrick Illien, Sushant Acharya, Michèle Amacker, Sabin Bieri, Ildephonse Musafili, Outhoumphone Sanesathid","doi":"10.1057/s41287-023-00600-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-023-00600-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract High-value agriculture contributes to rural incomes, but does it also contribute to expanding “human capabilities” (Sen, Development as freedom, Knopf, New York, 1999) in a durable way? Through long-term qualitative fieldwork in three landlocked LDCs—Nepal, Rwanda and Laos—resulting in over 150 interviews, we found expansions of the three analysed capabilities: paid work, mobility and social relations. Yet, those improvements were characterised by precariousness: they were mostly not resilient in the face of the economic and environmental risks that high-value agriculture entails. The only example of a durable capability expansion was found in Nepal, where women claimed social spaces through collective organisation. All three study sites showed remarkable consistency in that the considerable risk involved in cash crop production was mainly borne by farmers and rural labourers. Research on mechanisms to guard against these risks at household or individual level is warranted.","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135406492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Public Agricultural Investment on Crops Production, Households’ Welfare, and Employment Generation Opportunities in Togo, West Africa","authors":"Essossinam Ali, Nimonka Bayale","doi":"10.1057/s41287-023-00597-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-023-00597-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135258680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth Presler-Marshall, Nicola Jones, Sarah Baird, Rebecca Dutton, Workneh Yadete
{"title":"‘Mind the Gaps’: Exploring Regional and Gender Patterns in Threats to Ethiopian Adolescents’ Bodily Integrity","authors":"Elizabeth Presler-Marshall, Nicola Jones, Sarah Baird, Rebecca Dutton, Workneh Yadete","doi":"10.1057/s41287-023-00602-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-023-00602-z","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Spurred by international commitments to address age- and gender-based violence, this article uses a capabilities framework to address an important data gap on violence against adolescents in Ethiopia. It draws on mixed-methods data collected in 2019/2020 in three diverse rural regions. This includes surveys completed by 5539 girls and boys as well as 819 qualitative interviews with adolescents, caregivers, community members, and service providers. We find that threats to adolescents’ bodily integrity are shaped by a complex interplay of age, gender, and socio-cultural environment. Girls are less able than boys to enjoy freedom of movement and control over their bodies, and age-related violence is often deeply gendered in ways that are context specific. Differences in service provisioning augment already large gaps between adolescents in different regions. To tackle threats to adolescents’ bodily integrity, awareness-raising efforts need to be twinned with improved access to education, health, social protection, and justice services.","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135253704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ANALISIS PENGARUH PENDAPATAN ASLI DAERAH DAN DANA PERIMBANGAN TERHADAP LAJU PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI DI PROPINSI JAMBI","authors":"Irmanelly Irmanelly, Noprihartini Noprihartini, Faradilla Herlin, Trie Hierdawaty","doi":"10.53978/jd.v11i1.275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53978/jd.v11i1.275","url":null,"abstract":"Salah satu sumber pembiayaan pembangunan daerah yaitu melalui penerimaan daerah. Penerimaan daerah dapat bersumber dari kemampuan keuangan daerah dalam bentuk Pendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD) dan dana dari pemerintah pusat dalam bentuk Dana Perimbangan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis pengaruh pendapatan asli daerah dan dana perimbangan terhadap laju pertumbuhan ekonomi propinsi Jambi. Metode penelitian deskriptif kuantitatif digunakan guna menjawab permasalahaan dengan alat analisis berupa regresi linier berganda. Data penelitian merupakan data sekunder yang bersumber dari Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) dan website dirjen perimbangan keuangan daerah pemerintah daerah. Hasil penelitian yaitu pendapatan asli daerah (PAD) dan dana perimbangan secara simultan berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap laju pertumbuhan ekonomi di propinsi Jambi, akan tetapi secara parsial tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan baik pendapatan asli daerah maupun dana perimbangan.","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79092268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Persepsi Masyarakat Terhadap Limbah Peternakan Ayam Ras Di Kabupaten Muaro Jambi","authors":"M. Safri, Hari Firman Hakim, Hutwan Syarifuddin","doi":"10.53978/jd.v11i1.274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53978/jd.v11i1.274","url":null,"abstract":"Indutri perunggasan salah satu sektor yang penting dalam memenuhi kebutuhan manusia akan protein hewani,ini ditandai dengan peningkatan produksi daging dan telur ayam yang sangat pesat dari tahun ke tahun. Peternakan ayam ras dalam penelitian ini merupakan peternakan yang terdiri dari peternakan ayam petelur (layer) dan ayam pedaging (broiler). Diantara 100 respon diketahui bahwa 82 responden atau 1.700 skor pada kategori Terganggu. Tingginya skor tersebut disebabkan karena sebagian besar masyarakat merasa terganggu dengan bau yang ditimbulkan dari peternakan ayam ras petelur tersebut. Sementara untuk pencemaran air diantara 100 respon diketahui bahwa 83 responden atau 1.660 skor pada Kategori sangat terganggu. Tingginya skor tersebut disebabkan karena sebagian besar masyarakat merasa terganggu dengan pencemaran air yang ditimbulkan dari peternakan ayam ras petelur tersebut. Untuk dampak limbah menunjukkan bahwa total skor untuk sub variabel limbah diperoleh 4005 berada pada kategori Terganggu meskipun demikian dari indikator yang terdiri dari ditumpuk dikolam pembuangan maupun dan kurangnya kebersihan. Tingginya skor tersebut disebabkan karena sebagian besar masyarakat merasa terganggu dengan pengelolaan limbah yang masih kurang bagus karena fesesnya hanya dibiarkan pembuanganya saja yang ditimbulkan dari peternakan ayam tersebut. menunjukkan bahwa jumlah skor 8.034 termasuk kategori terganggu. Diketahui bahwa untuk mendirikan peternakan harus jauh dari permukiman panduduk agar tidak mengganggu kenyamanan masyarakat yang tinggal di Kabupaten Muaro Jambi sesuai dengan data bahwa sub variabel bau masyarakat merasa terganggu, pencemaran air yang mana masyarakat merasa sangat terganggu dan limbah masyarakat","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73622963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PENGARUH KUALITAS PELAYANAN TERHADAP KEPUASAN PELANGGAN CAFE KOPI JANJI JIWA DI KOTA JAMBI","authors":"Hario Tamtomo, Agesha Marsyaf, Deka Veronica","doi":"10.53978/jd.v11i1.271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53978/jd.v11i1.271","url":null,"abstract":"Tujuan dari penelitian Pengaruh Kualitas Pelayanan Terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan Cafe Kopi Janji Jiwa Di Kota Jambi (Studi Pada Pelanggan Cafe Kopi Janji Jiwa Cabang Sipin) ini pertama untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis terkait Bukti Fisik (Tangible), Keandalan (Reliability), Daya Tanggap (Responsiveness), Jaminan (Assurance), Empati (Empathy) yang berpengaruh terhadap kepuasan pelanggan di Cafe Kopi Janji Jiwa Sipin Kota Jambi. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah Analisis data primer dengan menggunakan model analisis pertama terdiri dari analisis deskriptif kuantitatif. Model analisis kedua menggunakan model persamaan regresi berganda. Adapun hasil analisis adalah pertama hasil kualitas pelayanan pada Cafe Kopi Janji Jiwa Sipin ditinjau dari dimensi wujud (Tangible), keandalan (Reliability), Tanggap (Responsiveness), Jaminan (Assurance), empati (Empathy) memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan. Kedua, variabel Wujud (Tangible), Keandalan (Reliability), Tanggap (Responsiveness), Jaminan (Assurance), Empati (Empathy) berkorelasi terhadap kepuasan pelanggan yaitu sebesar 72,0%, dan mempengaruhi tingkat kepuasan pelanggan pada cafe kopi janji jiwa sipin sebesar 51,8 %. Hal tersebut termasuk dalam kategori baik/ sedang.","PeriodicalId":47650,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Development Research","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90628370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}