CPAID will explore how forms of public authority shape and are shaped by a set of interlocking global challenges that pose both risks and opportunities for international development and inclusive growth.
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Foreword
The Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID) draws on research and activism by members of the team going back several years. We are committed to interdisciplinary research, designed to strengthen knowledge about how the governance of societies in impoverished, marginal and/or conflict-affected places actually functions. Our research draws its understandings from ordinary people, and, in particular, vulnerable, politically marginalised and economically-excluded groups. Central to CPAID’s activities is the lens of public authority. The expression public authority is sometimes used to refer to forms of authority with a legal mandate to govern. It is often associated with the governance of formal states, and sub-components of states, such as municipalities. However, in places where we undertake research, to make a distinction between the forms of authority in private spaces and forms of authority associated with formal states leaves out far too much. Our notion of public authority is therefore much broader than the conventional definition. The importance of this approach, and what this means for our researchers is explained in greater depth throughout this booklet.  Building on the knowledge, networks, and connections of its members, CPAID aims to make a substantial impact by engaging meaningfully with stakeholders in the researched countries, forging closer links between academic research and policy-making, and providing an evidence base for more effective policies to promote inclusive growth and social change.
PROFESSOR TIM ALLEN Principal Investigator, CPAID Director, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, London School of Economics and Political Science
Conceptual Framework
Understanding governance in complex settings CPAID
researchers have developed a conceptual framework to structure our research projects. Our ideas about public authority emerged from collaborations between our researchers in the past, namely the DFID-funded Justice and Security Research Programme (JSRP). Holding public authority at the centre of this framework, lively discussion during seminars and workshops across our first year has helped nuance how public authority is claimed in the places we study. Thanks to this, our researchers have proposed a range of concepts which capture aspects of governance as it exists in practice in the politically unstable, conflict-affected and impoverished places in which we work. We call these concepts ‘logics’.
Conceptual Framework
What is Public Authority? For CPAID, public authority is any kind of authority beyond the immediate family which commands a degree of consent—from clans, religious institutions, aid agencies, civil social organisations, rebel militia and vigilante groups, to formal and semi-formal mechanisms of government. We include the criteria ‘which commands a degree of consent’, because some assertions of public authority may not command consent, and may be effectively ignored, while other assertions may be backed by such a degree of force that consent is irrelevant and authority is reduced to an exercise of power without legitimacy. For us, public authority requires a quality of experienced legitimacy—although by no means necessarily formal legality.
LOGICS OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY CPAID uses ‘logics’ to explain how public authority is claimed in different contexts. We recognise that sometimes people will use multiple logics simultaneously, and that they are not necessarily separate modes of thinking and acting. One way in which we find them useful concepts is that they draw attention to the ambiguities, and contingencies of forms of authority. We do not see them as closed categories, but as fluid notions,
which help us describe things more precisely and to explore patterns of social life in diverse settings, without assuming that the places in which we work are locations on a trajectory towards what international actors have called ‘good governance’. This helps us be open to the possibilities of other processes than those defined in more conventional debates about failed and functional states.
LOGICS
OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY
INTIMATE GOVERNANCE Intimate governance is the personalised or private aspect of authority. Various forms of public authority enter private spaces and become bound up with family relationships, while simultaneously familial logics are applied in public relations to evoke social ordering. Intimate governance also refers to dynamics of non-kin individuals who are treated as kin. Read more: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2018/06/25/family-politics-and-female-authority-in-sierra-leone/
POLITICAL MARKETPLACE Political marketplace is the notion of ‘having the political budget needed for the political market’, inspired by Professor Alex de Waal’s work on political leaders in the Horn of Africa from the 1970s1 to today. Elites avoid destabilising levels of violence and claim public authority by buying off rivals and, thereby, incorporating them into elite coalitions. When this fails, elites turn to periodic bouts of violence to signal their claim to public authority. 1
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MORAL POPULISM
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To secure a constituency, particularly in the times of violence described above, elites often utilise moral populism: excluding groups or creating an ‘other’ to blame for social ills and misfortunes. Moral panics can result, where violence against the other, be it an individual, neighbouring group or entire ethnicity, is justified by manipulative leaders.
SOCIAL HARMONY Moral populism is not just enacted by elites – it can often take on more benign forms, in groups that require trust and accountability, like religious groups and trading networks. As such, it relates closely to social harmony, which is the efforts of populations to maintain neighbourly relations. This does not always allow for dissent and can be enacted in ways that restrict choice and accountability. Read more: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2018/06/18/from-saved-to-secularised-the-challenges-facing-former-lra-fighters-face-after-reintegration-into-their-communities/
PUBLIC MUTUALITY Similarly, our penultimate logic refers to the cooperative relations within populations, but can also be embodied by elites, and is something more egalitarian. Public mutuality is the act of treating others as you would like to be treated yourself, often referred to as the Golden Rule. Much more common than many would anticipate, people often find ways of sharing and helping that is almost instinctive, even in the most extreme social circumstances. Read more: • http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2018/02/15/publicauthority-what-will-happen-when-there-is-another-epidemic-ebola-in-mathiane-sierra-leone/ • http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationaldevelopment/2018/04/04/an-experiment-in-participatory-blogging-on-ebola-in-sierra-leone/ • http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2018/08/08/lessons-from-the-ebola-outbreak-in-sierra-leone/
CIVICNESS Where state institutions are more established, civicness describes an important form of public mutuality. Civicness refers to the behaviour of individuals and institutions that claim authority by offering protection and informal justice that is socially inclusive, transparent and commands respect. Civicness suggests that there is an alternative way of ordering life and contributing to developmental processes. These often occur unseen and are hidden, but, as our research suggests, are often a basis for hope and empathy in what seem to be the worst of places.
In the Field
Capacity-building at CPAID’s core By Dr Duncan Green and Gemma Edom
African
perspectives have been starkly under- represented in research activities based on the African continent. According to an article published in African Arguments1, between 2008 and 2017, less than three per cent of articles published in Western social and political journals were written by scholars based in the Global South. In particular, the number of Africa-based scholars published in African Affairs and the Journal of Modern African Studies has declined over the last 20 years2, despite an increase in article submissions. There are various reasons why this happens. One problem is that Africa-based researchers and academics do not always have the training or incentives to submit work of the required quality. However, a considerable amount of scholarly research produced on the African continent is written collaboratively with international partners. This suggests two things: African researchers may not be getting the opportunities and publication recognition they deserve and global hierarchies of knowledge production remain favoured to the global North.
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CAPACITY-BUILDING AT CPAID’S CORE
WRITING WORKSHOP SOUTH SUDAN In July 2018, CPAID Researchers hosted a Writing Workshop for South Sudanese Early Career Researchers in partnership with the British Academy and the University of Juba. Top: Dr Leben Moro on editing and mentorship. Bottom: Researchers discussing Land Law and Pastoral Conflict.
To mitigate against these trends, we can frame the concern in terms of supply, demand and the link between the two. We need a good supply of research, especially from African researchers, who are closer to the situation on the ground and have a more legitimate voice in describing and prescribing problems and solutions. Capacity-building activities increase the ability of individuals and institutions to produce high-quality research and engage with external stakeholders. For CPAID, capacity-building is at the core of every stage of our research activities.
We work with a pool of talented, dedicated Africanbased scholars and are committed to developing their skills and careers over the years to come. But however good the supply of research, it will have no effect if policy makers, North and South, do not provide the demand for such research, feeding it into the decisions they make on a daily basis. It is our responsibility to engage with external stakeholders and ensure that these African voices are always heard at all levels of decision-making.
CPAID plans to promote both supply and demand for research through three main channels
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MENTORING AND TRAINING AFRICAN RESEARCHERS Through a partnership with northern Uganda’s newly established Centre for African Research (CAR), CPAID will be undertaking a pilot capacity-building programme with early career northern Ugandan scholars. The programme involves three elements, managed by CAR: quarterly training workshops, monthly seminars, and monthly reading groups. CAR’s founders are Gulu-based alumni from the LSE’s Programme for African Leadership (PfAL), who already know and have worked with core members of the CPAID research team. The PfAL group came up with the initiative and put the proposal together themselves, demonstrating significant commitment to CPAID’s research agenda. One of CPAID’s partners, the Social Science Research Council, has formed a research network across the DRC consisting of researchers and academics. CPAID is funding the two annual conferences of RESCONGO in September 2018 and 2019 organised by Dr Tatiana Carayannis. The goals of the network are to increase collaboration among scholars, build a platform for knowledge exchange, and improve the rigour of engagement with peace and security issues.
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INFLUENCING POLICY MAKERS IN AID ORGANISATIONS Research on where and how academic work influences policy and practice points to the importance of relationships and trust: academics need to build networks with policy makers, establishing themselves as the ‘go-to’ authorities on a given subject, and providing advice that is relevant to political possibilities and timetables. CPAID has a number of recognised names, with considerable reputations among decision makers, not least its Director, Professor Tim Allen. As a ‘Professor in Practice’ who divides his time between the LSE and Oxfam, where he is strategic adviser, Dr Duncan Green has also written and advised on how to ensure research has impact. Internal training in this area for CPAID researchers and partners will be a priority for the Centre. Dr Tatiana Carayannis, one of CPAID’s co-investigators often participates in and organises strategic sessions and advisory committees for the UN’s Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region.
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COMMUNICATING ITS FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS MORE WIDELY Research shows that in modern academia, it is not enough to simply publish in journals, hope someone reads your piece, and is influenced by the content. Academics need to profile their analysis and findings across social media, and use it to draw readers to their longer-term work. CPAID is lucky to have an established platform, the Africa@LSE blog, with a strong number of visitors, which allows it to showcase its work there, as well as on Oxfam’s From Poverty to Power blog.
CAPACITY-BUILDING AT CPAID’S CORE
The communications strategy operates at different levels. There is a task of generalised ‘framing’— introducing the term ‘public authority’ into official and academic discourses, as a way of shifting debates away from simple polarities of ‘citizen’ and ‘state’ to a more nuanced and realistic understanding of how power and authority operates in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Secondly, there is more detailed engagement with aid agencies and others on what policies and practices are more or less effective in such settings.
RESEARCH MEETING GHENT, BELGIUM Staff and researchers gather at the University of Ghent in Belgium to set research agendas and discuss the Centre’s strategic direction.
By constantly evaluating and refining this capacity-building strategy to reflect the researchers’ needs, we aim to produce productive partnerships between researchers that are of true mutual benefit: to enable researchers to develop skills and have access to opportunities to further their careers - with the aim of writing rigorous and critically engaged publications that are authored and co-authored by our African-based research collaborators.
CAPACITY-BUILDING AT CPAID’S CORE
SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO In March 2018 a team of CPAID researchers collected social network data through participant-aided sociograms in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Respondents mapped out their own relationship networks on whiteboards and identified who provided various public services. To find out more about Social Network Analysis, visit http://ow.ly/Dxof30ltsn5
In the Field
The scope of our research
CPAID
aims to make a comprehensive and inclusive assessment of public authority dynamics and their impact. This is reflected by our rich variety of research projects which are conducted in fragile and conflict-affected areas across the African continent.
Democratic Republic of Congo
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espite a substantial wealth of natural resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains one of the world’s poorest countries, having suffered long decades of civil war and foreign interventions. Currently home to at least 1.6 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) alongside a host of refugees from neighbouring countries, this turbulent sociopolitical space provides a fertile ground for investigating the constantly changing dynamics of the constitution and contestation of public authority.
RESEARCH PROJECTS The Rise and Fall of the MLC: Rebellion, the ICC, and the Shaping of Public Authority in Congo and CAR Dr Tatiana Carayannis Going With or Against the Flow? A study of Water Governance in Goma, DR Congo Dr Duncan Green and Dr Tom Kirk Between Two Spaces – Combatants’ Circular Return Professor Koen Vlassenroot
Rebel-Commodity Networks as ‘Geographies of Public Authority’ in Conflict Areas: Case of illegal fishing in Eastern DR Congo Dr Esther Marijnen Take Me to Your Leader: Employing Mixed Methods and Social Network Analysis in the Study of Public Authority and Governance in Conflict-affected States Dr Patrycja Stys
Kenya Photo by Ninara / Flickr
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n many respects, Kenya has been one of Africa’s top economic leaders. However, ethnic tensions continue to destabilise some regions of the country and have left thousands of people internally displaced. Among other things, CPAID will investigate how public authorities in Kenya are responding to and attempting to prevent violence.
RESEARCH PROJECTS The Shifting Locus of Authority over Land in Kenya’s Settlement Schemes Professor Catherine Boone Constructing Moral Stability: Domestic Capitalists and Public Authority in Africa Dr Laura Mann
Photo by Ninara / Flickr
Sierra Leone
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ublic authority and governance on all levels in Sierra Leone have been decisively shaped by a devastating civil war that lasted from 1991 to 2002 and, more recently, by the effects of the Ebola outbreak between 2014 and 2016. Based out of Njala University, CPAID’s work in Sierra Leone will investigate how local people and communities constitute and understand public authority in relation to this recent history.
RESEARCH PROJECTS Public Authority in the Ebola outbreak and its aftermath Professor Tim Allen and Professor Melissa Parker Family Politics: Female Authority and Everyday Democracy in Sierra Leone Dr Jonah Lipton Public Authority and Water Governance in Sierra Leone Dr Kate Meagher
Somalia
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omalia has long featured prominently in the debates on ‘failed states’ because of its protracted history of civil war and the limited reach of its formal state institutions. The country is therefore a prime case for CPAID’s research agenda, which aims to move away from the assumption that only Western-style formal state institutions can provide the governance structures necessary for economic and social life.
South Sudan
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fter decades of civil war, South Sudan became independent in 2011 and had the opportunity to build its own state structures for the first time. Throughout decades of war, the Sudanese state has had limited public authority in South Sudan. However, despite this absence of the formal state, there was order and governance in the South. In December 2013, large-scale civil war erupted in South Sudan. Armed violence has killed hundreds of thousands, displaced millions and violated previous codes of war.
RESEARCH PROJECTS Money and divine authority: contemporary debates about money and authority among spear masters in Gogrial, South Sudan Dr Naomi Pendle
This context makes CPAID’s work on South Sudanese public authority both vital and fraught. Due to the current level of violence throughout the country, much of the initial research will need to be undertaken among refugees in Sudan and Uganda. However, some research will still be conducted in South Sudan and will focus on public authority in the context of peace building and alternative epistemologies.
Uganda
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lthough Uganda has been relatively peaceful for the past decade, many people still suffer from the consequences of a 20-year-long civil war in its northern regions. In recent years, the country has also struggled with an unprecedented influx of refugees from South Sudan. CPAID will make use of its researchers’ extensive expertise and knowledge of the Ugandan context and partner with Gulu University to research local understandings of public authority.
RESEARCH PROJECTS Creating and perpetuating moral populism among former LRA fighters in northern Uganda Professor Grace Akello
Courting Justice: The Role of Magistrates Court in Shaping Statehood and Citizenship in northern Uganda Dr Anna MacDonald
Long-term experiences of reintegrated children and young adults from the LRA Professor Tim Allen, Jackline Atingo, Dorothy Atim, James Ocitti, and Professor Melissa Parker
Building public authority and resilience among South Sudanese in Uganda Dr Ryan O’Byrne
When customary land is not customary land and why it matters Julian Hopwood
Sex, love and war: governing intimate relations in a violent world Dr Holly Porter Varieties of Arbitrary Governance Dr Rebecca Tapscott
Who We Are: Investigators PROFESSOR TIM ALLEN Professor Tim Allen is the Principal Investigator at the Centre for Public Authority and International Development. Professor Allen is also Director of the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa and Professor of Development Anthropology in LSE’s Department of International Development. Professor Allen’s research has focused on complex emergencies, development aid and ethics, ethnic conflict, forced migration and the local conception of health and healing across East Africa. He has carried out long-term field research in several African countries, mostly in Sudan, Uganda and Kenya.
PROFESSOR MELISSA PARKER Professor Melissa Parker is a medical anthropologist at the Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Professor Parker has worked on a range of global health issues in Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda including: mental health and well-being among war-affected populations; the control of neglected tropical diseases; emerging infectious diseases; the anthropology of evidence and public policy. In 2014, she helped to establish the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform.
DR DUNCAN GREEN Dr Duncan Green is Senior Strategic Adviser at Oxfam GB, and a Professor in Practice in LSE’s Department of International Development. He is also an honorary Professor of International Development at Cardiff University and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies. He is author of How Change Happens (2016) and From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World (2008). Dr Green also authors the From Poverty to Power blog.
PROFESSOR MARY KALDOR Professor Mary Kaldor is a Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit in LSE’s Department of International Development. Professor Kaldor also directs the unit’s largest research project, the Conflict Research Programme (CRP), an international DFID-funded partnership investigating public authority, through a theoretical lens of the political marketplace and the concept of civicness, across a range of countries in Africa and the Middle East. Professor Kaldor is highly regarded for her innovative work on democratisation, conflict, and globalisation.
DR TATIANA CARAYANNIS Dr Tatiana Carayannis is Director of the Social Science Research Council’s Understanding Violent Conflict program and the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum. She also leads a project on China’s engagement in Africa, The China-Africa Knowledge Project and convenes the DRC Affinity Group, a small brain trust of leading Congo scholars and analysts. She serves as a research director of the Conflict Research Programme and is a senior fellow at LSE.
PROFESSOR KOEN VLASSENROOT Professor Koen Vlassenroot is the Director of the Conflict Research Group (CRG) at Ghent University and the Africa Programme at Egmont Institute in Brussels. Professor Vlassenroot is also a member of the Congo Affinity Group, that regularly advises the UN and other international policy makers. Professor Vlassenroot is an international expert on conflict dynamics in Central Africa and conducts research on armed groups, conflict and governance, with a particular focus on eastern Congo.
PROFESSOR ALEX DE WAAL Professor Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. Professor de Waal is also Research Director of the CRP and was previously a fellow of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and program director at the Social Science Research Council on AIDS in New York City. His research investigates humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/Aids and governance, conflict and peacebuilding across the Horn of Africa. He has worked in north-east Africa for thirty years, including as an adviser to the African Union on Sudan.
Who We Are: CPAID Teams
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO RESEARCH TEAM
PAPY MUZURI BATUMIKE
DR TATIANA CARAYANNIS
DR DUNCAN GREEN
PROFESSOR GODEFROID MUZALIA KIHANGU
DR TOM KIRK
DR ESTHER MARIJNEN
SAMUEL KEITH MUHINDO
CHRISPIN MVANO
DR PATRYCJA STYS
PROFESSOR KOEN VLASSENROOT
KENYA RESEARCH TEAM
PROFESSOR CATHERINE BOONE
DR LAURA MANN
SIERRA LEONE RESEARCH TEAM
PROFESSOR TIM ALLEN
DR JONAH LIPTON
DR KATE MEAGHER
PROFESSOR MELISSA PARKER
NGOT MOU
DR NAOMI PENDLE
SOMALIA RESEARCH TEAM
PROFESSOR ALEX DE WAAL
CLAIRE ELDER
SOUTH SUDAN RESEARCH TEAM
ABRAHAM DIING AKOI
BOL MAWIEN
PROFESSOR PAUL RICHARDS
WHO WE ARE: CPAID TEAMS
UGANDA RESEARCH TEAM
FRANCIS ABONGA
SAUM NANGIRO
PROFESSOR GRACE AKELLO
JACKLINE ATINGO
DOROTHY ATIM
CAROLIN DIETERLE
JULIAN HOPWOOD
RAPHAEL KERALI
DR RYAN JOSEPH O’BYRNE
JAMES OCITTI
CHARLES OGENO
DR HOLLY PORTER
ORYEM ROBIN
DR REBECCA TAPSCOTT
DR ANNA MACDONALD
CONSTANZA TORRE
WHO WE ARE: CPAID TEAMS
CONTRIBUTORS
DR ERNESTINA COAST
PROFESSOR TEDDY BRETT
PROGRAMME TEAM
NATASHA KOVEROLA COMMISSIONG
GEMMA EDOM CPAID Graduate Intern
MARTHA GEIGER CPAID Centre Manager
INGRINA SHIEH CPAID Graphic Designer
SYERRAMIA WILLOUGHBY Communications and Events Manager
Grants Programme Officer and Official Development Assistance Impact Officer
YOVANKA PAQUETE PERDIGAO Communications and Events Officer
Funders and Partners FUNDERS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is part of UK Research and Innovation, a new organisation that brings together the UK’s seven research councils, Innovate UK and Research England to maximise the contribution of each council and create the best environment for research and innovation to flourish. The vision is to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.
GLOBAL CHALLENGES RESEARCH FUND The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) is a five-year £1.5 billion funding stream, announced as part of the Government’s 2015 spending review. It forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance commitment, to support cutting-edge research which addresses the problems faced by developing countries. The fund, to be administered through delivery partners including the Research Councils and national academies, will address global challenges through disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, will strengthen capability for research and innovation within both UK and developing countries, and will provide an agile response to emergencies and opportunities.
PARTNERS FIROZ LALJI CENTRE FOR AFRICA Based at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa promotes independent academic research and teaching; open and issue-oriented debate; and evidence-based policy making. The Centre accomplishes this by connecting different social science disciplines and by working in partnership with Africa bringing African voices to the global debate.
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, international, nonprofit organization founded in 1923. Governed by a board of directors, it fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues.
PARTNERS CONTINUED CONFLICT RESEARCH GROUP The Conflict Research Group (CRG) is a multidisciplinary research unit at Ghent University (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences). We are primarily interested in the micro-level dynamics of civil conflicts and concentrate both on the impact of civil conflicts on local communities, and on the links between local and global dimensions of conflict. CRG’s crosscutting analysis has led to the comparison of different geographical case studies, from Asia and sub-Sahara Africa to Latin America. Our research centres around three clusters: resources, governance and humanitarian aid.
LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health, with more than 4,000 students and 1,000 staff working in over 100 countries. The School is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK, is among the world’s leading schools in public and global health, and was named University of the Year in the Times Higher Education Awards 2016. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.
OXFAM Oxfam is an international confederation of 20 organizations working together with partners and local communities in more than 90 countries. One person in three in the world lives in poverty. Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty. Around the globe, Oxfam works to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive. We save lives and help rebuild livelihoods when crisis strikes. And we campaign so that the voices of the poor influence the local and global decisions that affect them. In all we do, Oxfam works with partner organizations and alongside vulnerable women and men to end the injustices that cause poverty.
Become Involved PUBLIC AUTHORITY NETWORK CPAID’s Public Authority Network is an interdisciplinary network of academics and practitioners from across the globe. Through ongoing events and online communities, CPAID will foster a new community of individuals working collaboratively to: •
Promote new ways of thinking about public authority;
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Strengthen knowledge exchanges around the way governance in fragile contexts actually functions on the ground;
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Build collaborative solutions and effective policy responses.
If you would like to join the Public Authority network, please connect with CPAID through the following channels:
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