Report: Cross-country analysis on citizen engagement helps inform development policy making (IDS, 2 Aug 2010)

Supporters of bottom-up policy approaches to development have been bolstered by a recent study that identified a range of positive outcomes - many previously unrecognised - that result when citizens get involved in the institutions that affect their lives.

The study, from the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (Citizenship DRC) at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), has been well received by policy makers at a time when international donor agencies are under increased pressure to justify their budgets to the public.