Citizen action and participation shape states and societies
Almost 450 resources are now available on the archive website of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship (DRC Citizenship), Participation and Accountability. DRC Citizenship was an experiment in global research. In 2001, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded a coordinating team, based at the Institute of Development Studies, to assemble a research consortium to investigate how citizens hold institutions to account and claim their rights.
Disseminating knowledge
By giving researchers from both the north and south greater independence, this approach was intended to support long-term research with the objectives of generating new knowledge, disseminating this widely to decision-makers and practitioners, and building the capacity of partner institutions to carry out high-quality research, communication and policy engagement.
Citizen action and participation shape states and societies
Over a decade, the DRC Citizenship built a network of
researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and activists and
collected more than 150 empirically grounded case studies that
examine how citizen action and participation shape states and
societies. A new summary report outlines the findings of the
centre's ten years of collaborative research. In addition,
synthesis papers cover 9 research themes. The archive site enables
users to search by keyword, and to browse by country or theme.