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Research Streams
For the APPP, governance encompasses the exercise of power in the management of society’s resources at all levels, from the offices of Presidents to the back yards of urban neighbourhoods and the killing fields of local conflict zones. We wish to challenge conventional nostrums about ‘good’ governance and democracy that are taken to apply comprehensively and with few reservations to today’s development challenges in Africa. This requires a similarly comprehensive plan of research, one that does not limit itself to events and processes at the apex of state power, but carefully assembles a body of evidence on the full range of functions performed more or less badly by organs of the central or local state, from the administration of justice to the protection of natural resources or prevention of infantile dysentery.
In 2008, it was agreed that the APPP would organise the bulk of its research and policy engagement work within six Research Streams, designated as follows:
- Business and politics 1 and 2;
- State bureaucracies;
- Parliamentarians;
- Local governance and leadership;
- Local justice provision;
- Formalising schooling.
The APPP research streams document downloadable here (
pdf 840KB) provides a concise description of the rationale, research questions, approach and methods of each Stream as originally conceived.
The Research Progress Report, also available for download here (pdf 410KB), provides an update as of Nov 2009. Further details on each stream are provided on their individual pages.
Latest Downloads
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APPP Working Paper 13, Towards a theory of local governance and public goods' provision in sub-Saharan Africa, David Booth, Aug 2010 Eng More Info |
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APPP Working Paper 10, Local governance and public goods in Niger, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, July 2010 Eng More Info |
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APPP Working Paper 12, Developmental patrimonialism? The case of Malawi by Cammack, Kelsall with Booth, Jul 2010 Eng More Info |
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APPP Working paper 10, Gouvernance locale et biens publics au Niger, par Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Juillet 2010 Fr More Info |
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