As attention increasingly turns to the sustainability of rural water supplies-and not simply
overall levels of coverage or access-water point functionality has become a core concern for …

Increasingly it is argued that anti-corruption efforts have not worked because they are based
on inadequate theory, suggesting that collective action theory offers a better understanding …

With the advent of the local turn in the mid-2000s, critical approaches have attempted to
rethink peace building from the bottom up, placing local agents at the centre of the debate …

'Non-traditional'security problems like pandemic diseases, climate change and terrorism
now pervade the global agenda. Many argue that sovereign state-based governance is no …

The study investigates whether Nepal's Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) policies
represent new conceptualizations and approach to address local vulnerability, compared to …

Although recent years have witnessed substantial changes in the global aid architecture,
less effort has been devoted to investigating the process of implementing those changes. By …

Development cooperation is changing as rising power donors (re) enter the fray. While a
growing body of evidence explores some of the economic trends (eg UNCTAD 2007), we …

International peace-and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in
international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the security problems stemming from …

This article introduces the special section on The Ownership Paradox: Continuity and
Change. In the text, we discuss how the principle and requirement of ownership is …

The concept of country ownership is central to international efforts to improve aid
effectiveness. At the same time, policy reform in recipient countries continues to be a donor …