{"title":"Aid Unchained: Examining Development Project Management Practices at Aid Chain Interfaces","authors":"Lena Gutheil, Dirk-Jan Koch","doi":"10.1177/14649934231205441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231205441","url":null,"abstract":"By analysing a comparative case study investigating a development project implemented in Uganda and Vietnam, the article aims to understand how donor directives travel and translate into actual practices in aid chains. Making use of Norman Long’s concept of the interface, we focus on the interfaces between organizations to examine the negotiation of everyday project practices. Based on practice theory, our analysis unpacks how directives are filtered through the power relationships that shape practices at the various interfaces. We find that organizational relations between southern organizations are just as power-laden as north–south relations. Our analysis also shows that neither the management directives nor the freedoms that were granted to the participating organizations resulted in uniform practices and that practices did not have the same implications for organizations. Hence, the aid chain concept tends to simplify the complexities inherent in project systems comprising a multiplicity of vertical and horizontal organizational relations.","PeriodicalId":503504,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"76 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140470834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Riddering, Alexandra Towns, Priyanka Brunese, Yuehwern Yih
{"title":"Research Translation for International Development: A Literature Review and Framework for Evidence Use and Partner Engagement","authors":"Laura Riddering, Alexandra Towns, Priyanka Brunese, Yuehwern Yih","doi":"10.1177/14649934231211731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231211731","url":null,"abstract":"Many research-to-practice approaches exist, yet fundamental differences in interpretation and uneven application of research translation approaches create a real challenge in generating research-driven solutions for development challenges. In this review, we aim to clarify the plethora of approaches to increase research uptake into international development practice and policy. Through a qualitative analysis of 93 articles, we identified four interrelated factors that differentiate research translation approaches. Building off the variation expressed across these factors, we propose a conceptual framework called the Research Translation Continuum. This framework illustrates the range of ways to produce useful evidence and the range of ways that academics and practitioners can collaborate. Our study makes a unique contribution by providing a conceptual framework for guiding research translation efforts in international development. We conclude that critical reflexive engagement is needed to situate, use, and produce evidence for development policy and practice.","PeriodicalId":503504,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":" 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139625555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the Role of Intergenerational Relations in Food Systems: Evidence from Western India","authors":"Anuprita Shukla","doi":"10.1177/14649934231215116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231215116","url":null,"abstract":"Food systems and their normative goal of achieving food security remain a robust global agenda. However, with the shifts toward a sustainable food system, there is an increasing interest in consolidating evidence on multiple dimensions of the food system. This article is an empirically grounded argument for using intergenerational relations to expand understanding of food systems by looking beyond the usual security outcomes and emphasising social welfare outcomes. Drawing on ethnographic research in an indigenous village in western India, I examine a rural, local food system and the transformations therein because of various socio-economic drivers, including changing livelihood opportunities. Evidence shows growing generational solidarity, with some positive effects for environmental sustainability and for revaluing indigenous culture, including traditional food systems, and generating new local livelihoods. Simultaneously, though, tensions are being created around intergenerational autonomy and cultural expressions. Moreover, the food transition has resulted in a decline in the nutritional content of local diets, which has health implications. This article raises questions whether trends towards sustainability and resilience are necessarily mutually reinforcing for natural resource-dependent indigenous communities and our natural environment.","PeriodicalId":503504,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139449678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Ezroj, A. 2021: Carbon Risk and Green Finance","authors":"King Carl Tornam Duho","doi":"10.1177/14649934231200657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231200657","url":null,"abstract":"Ezroj, A. 2021: Carbon Risk and Green Finance. Abingdon, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge. 138 pp. £110.00 (Hardback), £38.99 (Paperback), £27.29 (VitalSource eBook). ISBN: 9780367559915 (Hardback), 9780367559922 (Paperback), 9781003095996 (VitalSource eBook).","PeriodicalId":503504,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":" 11","pages":"78 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139392485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weaving a Dense Web: A (Decolonial) Study into the Contributions of Host Organizations of Development Volunteers in Jalisco, Mexico","authors":"Joanna Jablonska-Bayro, Benjamin Haas","doi":"10.1177/14649934231202665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231202665","url":null,"abstract":"Despite increasing interest in the role played by global South receiving organizations of development volunteers, their agency and efforts are rarely investigated in detail. Our qualitative study explores the involvement of receiving partners in international volunteering spaces, using the German Weltwärts programme in Mexico as an example. By applying decolonial theory, and politics and ethics of care lens to our data, we explore how these organizations are ‘weaving’ a dense assistance and safety web around the volunteers. Such assistance is usually not monetized and mainly invisible in the discussion of volunteering for development. Our findings challenge the development discourse and the positionality of northern volunteers within the development architecture.","PeriodicalId":503504,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"52 9","pages":"11 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139394806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Fejerskov, A. Ioris, Maren Duvendack, Jessica Omukuti
{"title":"Development Research in Flux and in Demand: The Future of Progress in Development Studies","authors":"A. Fejerskov, A. Ioris, Maren Duvendack, Jessica Omukuti","doi":"10.1177/14649934231212240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231212240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":503504,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"55 7","pages":"7 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139394851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Pettenati, G. 2022: Landscape as Heritage: International Critical Perspectives","authors":"Katherine Chyna Dixon","doi":"10.1177/14649934231205609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231205609","url":null,"abstract":"Pettenati, G. 2022: Landscape as Heritage: International Critical Perspectives. London and New York: Taylor and Francis. 328 pp. £130.00 (cloth), £32.39 (e-book), £35.99 (paper). ISBN: 978-1-032-04934-2 (cloth), 978-1-003-19523-8 (e-book), 978-1-032-04623-5 (paper).","PeriodicalId":503504,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"17 24","pages":"80 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139394215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}