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Karnataka and Tamil Nadu). The aim is
to enable an effective transition of the
HIV/AIDS intervention programme from
donors to the state and the communities
themselves. The design was evolved with
comprehensive inputs from members of
the community. Data collection and
analysis for the third successive year has
been completed.
nFor more information about Praxis and
its work, see: www.praxisindia.org.
The Praxis YouTube channel shows videos of
previous workshops as well as other films
made by Praxis. See:
www.youtube.com/PraxisIndia
News from the European Region:
update from IDS
Research updates
The Participation, Power and Social
Change (PPSC) team at the Institute of
Development Studies has continued its
work in tackling social injustice and
promoting participatory research for
social change. Through the first
anniversary of the Egyptian uprisings,
Mariz Tadros and others have been
analysing why and how the Arab
uprisings began and what this means for
human rights and public policy. They
suggest that citizen-led politics is being
left out of the formal arena and that this
will bear a cost not only in lives, but in
emerging policies that will compromise
people’s rights, dignity and well-being.
Other team members are involved in a
multi-year programme called Mobilising
Men to Challenge Sexual and Gender
Based Violence in Institutional Settings
which asks what can men do to work
with women in challenging the
institutionalised nature of this sort of
violence?
Our work on ‘unruly politics’ (political
actions that rupture the social and
political order) has gained momentum. In
the last year, we developed a framework
for using an ‘unruly’ lens to better
understand the changing face of citizen
action. Others have been working with a
project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, using
digital storytelling and participatory
video to evaluate a ten-year governance
programme. And building upon our work
on the global financial crisis, we have
continued to examine how the food, fuel
and financial shocks affected poor people
and how they have negotiated coping
strategies in developing contexts.
PPSC blog
Last autumn our new PPSC blog was
launched. Giving space and voice to our
team and other collaborators, this site
regularly posts informative, inspiring and
provocative blogs that cover the full
spectrum of our work. Since its launch
the number of followers has been growing
daily and the overall audience week by
week.
n For the latest on the PPSC’s activities and
critical thinking, sign up at:
participationpower.wordpress.com
New publications
The team has produced a number of
resources in recent months. Robert
Chambers’ Provocations for development
was published in April by IT Publications
and comprises an entertaining and
unsettling collection of writings that
questions concepts, conventions and
practices in development. Patta ScottVilliers’ inspirational work with a group of
Ugandan youth
who learnt to
use actionresearch
techniques has
resulted in
Strength,
creativity and
livelihoods of Karimojong youth (see
www.pastoralists.org). The team has
produced two recent IDS Bulletins: Action
research for development and social
change, edited by Danny Burns, came out