Community Contribution
Power Dynamics and Project Design
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Description
The resources in this section will assist you to consider power dynamics that apply to your programming space, and ensure that your design works “with the grain” of those power dynamics to maximize the chances of sustained success. Resources include tools to assess and consider power dynamics, resources for better building consideration of power dynamics into theories of change, and examples of PADs that effectively consider political economy issues.
Resources:
- Tips on Power Dynamics and Theories of Change
- Theories of Change and Theories of Action (Coming Soon)
- How Change Happens - Duncan Green
- Development Leadership Program: Everyday PEA
- DFID: The Beginner's Guide to PEA
- The Policy Practice: The Evolving Role of Political Economy Analysis in Development Practice
- Asia Foundation: Built on Dreams, Grounded in Reality - Economic Policy Reform in the Philippines
- Blog Series on Thinking and Working Politically and Inclusively
- Cross-Sectoral Guide to Thinking and Working Politically and Sustainable Landscapes
Power Mapping Tools
In this area, you can find tools from various donors and implementers to analyze power and its distribution across a local system, and apply this knowledge into particular problem sets or sectors.
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Designing Around Political Economy
In this area, you can find tips and considerations around how designs can be adjusted based on the findings of power analysis or political economy analysis of the relevant local system.
Examples
In this area, you can find examples of PEAs.
- Power, Politics and Resilience: Health Reform in Guatemala and El Salvador
- Marine Biodiversity and Fisheries in Madagascar: A Biodiversity and Extractives PEA Summary (Coming Soon)
- Kosovo PEA
- Serbia Competitiveness Assessment and PEA
- Feed the Future DRC PEA: Coffee, Dried Bean, and Soybean Value Chains
- BFS Institutional Architecture Assessment
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