Anuradha Joshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4218528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anuradha Joshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anuradha |
| FAMILY NAME | Joshi |
| SIGNATURE | JOSHI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0990-7701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Integrating cinemeducation and entrepreneurship for experiential learning in public health
Thalidomide memorial activity: Pedagogies of creativity, joy and immersion in medical education
BACKGROUND: Although medical education has advanced rapidly over the past few decades, literature reveals lack of interest and curiosity of students in medical classrooms. Considering this, one of the major prerequisites in medical education is to, encourage the use of creative and novel pedagogies in medical curriculum. METHODS: An educational intervention study with a post-test only design was conducted at a medical school in Western India. The…
Furthering a feminist fiscal agenda: Engendering tax and development
Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan
Drawing upon ‘governance diaries,’ a method which used repeated interviews with a set of households and intermediaries in three countries—Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan—to understand how marginalised groups meet their daily governance needs, we argue that local governance networks constitute a form of public authority. The networks we examine encompass a range of local actors (state and non‐state), who help develop and enforce rules and ensure …
The politics of complaint: A review of the literature on grievance redress mechanisms in the global South
Institutionalized complaint systems are notable features of improving public programmes and government practice. This article reviews literature on formal grievance redress mechanisms in the global South to understand whether these mechanisms help the aggrieved to complain and seek redress for their grievances. In this emerging literature, the institutional and definitional boundaries of formal grievance mechanisms are slippery; systems that look…
Citizen action for accountability in challenging contexts: What have we learned
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan
What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability
Governance Diaries: An Approach to Researching Marginalized People's Lived Experiences in Difficult Settings
How do chronically poor and marginalized citizens interact with and make claims to the different public authorities that exist in fragile, conflict and violence-affected contexts? In other words, how does governance from below look like in difficult settings? Given the centrality of the 'leave no one behind' agenda, an understanding of how such populations meet their governance needs can help identify the constraints to achieving development for …
An integrated framework for the improvement of school bus services: Understanding commuters’ perceptions for sustainable school bus transportation
Governance for Building Back Better
The pandemic is in many ways a crisis of governance. It has created a set of unique challenges that underscore the need for governments to collect revenue more efficiently and equitably; and to spend it more inclusively, transparently, and accountably, especially on the most vulnerable and marginalised populations. In this article, we suggest a set of governance interventions to help create conditions for building effective and inclusive institut…
Localising National Accountability Claims in Fragile Settings: The Right to Food Campaign in India
How does a national movement go local in places with multiple armed actors, simultaneously retaining credibility at the grass roots, while making claims and negotiating with the state? This article explores how a rights-based movement, the Right to Food (RTF) in India, with a strong national core and some state-level support expanded into areas that were experiencing militant insurgency. We find that the RTF movement was able to coexist with the …
Introduction: Accountability Amidst Fragility, Conflict, and Violence: Learning from Recent Cases
Conflict, violence, and fragility exacerbate the difficulties faced by poor and marginalised people, particularly in influencing the policy decisions that affect their lives. Comparing five cases in conflict-affected contexts, this introduction highlights a number of approaches. It emphasises the importance of distinguishing processes of accountability from those of empowerment, and recognising the complexities of the relationships between them. …
Glossary
Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability: Complementary Strategies Toward Rights-based Development in Health
Citizen-based accountability strategies to improve the lives of the poor and marginalized groups are increasingly being used in efforts to improve basic public services. The latest thinking suggests that broader, multi-pronged, multi-level, strategic approaches that may overcome the limitations of narrow, localized successes, hold more promise. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities, in theory and practice, posed by the integration …
In the pipeline: The governance of water supply to urban informal settlements
This paper explores the politics and governance issues underpinning small-scale informal service providers, to extract insights into how water provisioning for the poor works in the periphery of large cities. Drawing on exploratory field research in a large informal settlement at the urban fringe of New Delhi, we show that while informal network water providers fill a gap left by public delivery systems, residents are often captive consumers caug…
Taxing the Informal Economy: The Current State of Knowledge and Agendas for Future Research
This paper reviews the literature on taxation of the informal economy, taking stock of key debates and drawing attention to recent innovations. Conventionally, the debate on whether to tax has frequently focused on the limited revenue potential, high cost of collection, and potentially adverse impact on small firms. Recent arguments have increasingly emphasised the more indirect benefits of informal taxation in relation to economic growth, broade…
Introduction - Localising Governance: An Outlook on Research and Policy
The past two decades have seen an enormous increase in academic and policy attention to, and engagement with, governance at the sub-national and local levels. Yet, our understanding of the conditions that enable local governments to deliver services to citizens, reduce poverty, be inclusive and responsive, bridge cleavages in divided post-conflict societies or represent citizen interests to higher levels of authority remains limited. Drawing on d…
Reading the Local Context: A Causal Chain Approach to Social Accountability
There is a general consensus that ‘context’ matters for development outcomes, yet we have little understanding of how exactly ‘context’ affects outcomes. This article focuses on the question of ‘context’ in social accountability (SA) initiatives by separating macro- and micro-contextual factors. On the macro side (country level), accountability processes need to take into account broad factors such as national histories of citizen–state engagemen…
From User Fees to Fee Free: The Politics of Realising Universal Free Basic Education in Indonesia
Several developing countries have recently introduced policies supporting universal basic free education (UFBE). Experience suggests such policies often fail to increase access and quality of education, and illegal fees are widely prevalent. The literature identifies several reasons including the lack of replacement funding in place of fees and the loss of quality due to overcrowding and subsequent high drop-out rates. This article, using evidenc…
Widgets or Watchdogs?: Conceptual explorations in social accountability
Strengthening ‘social accountability’ is emerging as a key strategy for improving public services and attaining the Millennium Development Goals. Yet current conceptualizations of social accountability have tended to focus on it as ‘mechanisms’ or ‘widgets’, a view which tends to depoliticize the very processes through which poor people make claims. We propose an alternative conceptualization which focuses on disaggregating social accountability …
Pipe Dreams? The Governance of Urban Water Supply in Informal Settlements, New Delhi
This article explores two trends which exemplify recent research and thinking in service delivery: first, understanding the role of small-scale informal providers and second, understanding the politics and governance of service provision. Drawing on field research on urban water in New Delhi, we show that while informal providers fill a gap left by the public utility, residents are captive consumers with limited ability to influence service quali…
Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme
Introduction: Contours of a Research Project and Early Findings
Producing Social Accountability? The Impact of Service Delivery Reforms
Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme
Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability: Complementary Strategies Toward Rights-based Development in Health
Citizen-based accountability strategies to improve the lives of the poor and marginalized groups are increasingly being used in efforts to improve basic public services. The latest thinking suggests that broader, multi-pronged, multi-level, strategic approaches that may overcome the limitations of narrow, localized successes, hold more promise. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities, in theory and practice, posed by the integration …
Producing Social Accountability? The Impact of Service Delivery Reforms
Reading the Local Context: A Causal Chain Approach to Social Accountability
There is a general consensus that ‘context’ matters for development outcomes, yet we have little understanding of how exactly ‘context’ affects outcomes. This article focuses on the question of ‘context’ in social accountability (SA) initiatives by separating macro- and micro-contextual factors. On the macro side (country level), accountability processes need to take into account broad factors such as national histories of citizen–state engagemen…
Pipe Dreams? The Governance of Urban Water Supply in Informal Settlements, New Delhi
This article explores two trends which exemplify recent research and thinking in service delivery: first, understanding the role of small-scale informal providers and second, understanding the politics and governance of service provision. Drawing on field research on urban water in New Delhi, we show that while informal providers fill a gap left by the public utility, residents are captive consumers with limited ability to influence service quali…
Institutions and Service Delivery in Asia
Between Cant and Corporatism Creating an Enabling Political Environment for the Poor
Summaries Aid and development agencies like to believe that they manage their development programmes in ways that empower the poor. This is rare in practice, even (or especially?) in the case of newly?fashionable programmes that are explicitly targeted on the poor and justified in terms of ‘empowerment’. Any attempt genuinely to use public anti?poverty programmes to encourage the autonomous, collective mobilisation (‘empowerment’) of the poor wil…
In the pipeline: The governance of water supply to urban informal settlements
This paper explores the politics and governance issues underpinning small-scale informal service providers, to extract insights into how water provisioning for the poor works in the periphery of large cities. Drawing on exploratory field research in a large informal settlement at the urban fringe of New Delhi, we show that while informal network water providers fill a gap left by public delivery systems, residents are often captive consumers caug…
Introduction - Localising Governance: An Outlook on Research and Policy
The past two decades have seen an enormous increase in academic and policy attention to, and engagement with, governance at the sub-national and local levels. Yet, our understanding of the conditions that enable local governments to deliver services to citizens, reduce poverty, be inclusive and responsive, bridge cleavages in divided post-conflict societies or represent citizen interests to higher levels of authority remains limited. Drawing on d…
The Emerging Developing Countries
Between Cant and Corporatism Creating an Enabling Political Environment for the Poor
Summaries Aid and development agencies like to believe that they manage their development programmes in ways that empower the poor. This is rare in practice, even (or especially?) in the case of newly?fashionable programmes that are explicitly targeted on the poor and justified in terms of ‘empowerment’. Any attempt genuinely to use public anti?poverty programmes to encourage the autonomous, collective mobilisation (‘empowerment’) of the poor wil…
Enabling Environments: Do Anti-Poverty Programmes Mobilise the Poor
How can 'friends of the poor' in government or other agencies design and manage their anti-poverty programmes to encourage mobilisation? We explore the options, point out the advantages and disadvantages of the more direct methods, and make a case for the indirect or parametric approach: creating an enabling institutional environment, that encourages poor people, social activists and grassroots political entrepreneurs to invest in pro-poor mobili…
Taxing for the State
This paper reports on ongoing research on taxation of the informal passenger transportation
Institutionalised Co-production: Unorthodox Public Service Delivery in Challenging Environments
In developing countries in particular, services are often delivered through unorthodox organisational arrangements that cannot simply be dismissed as relics of ‘traditional ’ institutions, or as incomplete modern organisations. Some have emerged recently, and represent institutional adaptations to specific political and logistical circum-stances. We need to expand the range of organisational categories that are considered worthy of study and deve…
Institutions and Service Delivery in Asia
Introduction: Contours of a Research Project and Early Findings
Producing Social Accountability? The Impact of Service Delivery Reforms
Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme
Widgets or Watchdogs?: Conceptual explorations in social accountability
Strengthening ‘social accountability’ is emerging as a key strategy for improving public services and attaining the Millennium Development Goals. Yet current conceptualizations of social accountability have tended to focus on it as ‘mechanisms’ or ‘widgets’, a view which tends to depoliticize the very processes through which poor people make claims. We propose an alternative conceptualization which focuses on disaggregating social accountability …
Pipe Dreams? The Governance of Urban Water Supply in Informal Settlements, New Delhi
This article explores two trends which exemplify recent research and thinking in service delivery: first, understanding the role of small-scale informal providers and second, understanding the politics and governance of service provision. Drawing on field research on urban water in New Delhi, we show that while informal providers fill a gap left by the public utility, residents are captive consumers with limited ability to influence service quali…
From User Fees to Fee Free: The Politics of Realising Universal Free Basic Education in Indonesia
Several developing countries have recently introduced policies supporting universal basic free education (UFBE). Experience suggests such policies often fail to increase access and quality of education, and illegal fees are widely prevalent. The literature identifies several reasons including the lack of replacement funding in place of fees and the loss of quality due to overcrowding and subsequent high drop-out rates. This article, using evidenc…
Taxing the Informal Economy: The Current State of Knowledge and Agendas for Future Research
This paper reviews the literature on taxation of the informal economy, taking stock of key debates and drawing attention to recent innovations. Conventionally, the debate on whether to tax has frequently focused on the limited revenue potential, high cost of collection, and potentially adverse impact on small firms. Recent arguments have increasingly emphasised the more indirect benefits of informal taxation in relation to economic growth, broade…
Introduction - Localising Governance: An Outlook on Research and Policy
The past two decades have seen an enormous increase in academic and policy attention to, and engagement with, governance at the sub-national and local levels. Yet, our understanding of the conditions that enable local governments to deliver services to citizens, reduce poverty, be inclusive and responsive, bridge cleavages in divided post-conflict societies or represent citizen interests to higher levels of authority remains limited. Drawing on d…
Reading the Local Context: A Causal Chain Approach to Social Accountability
There is a general consensus that ‘context’ matters for development outcomes, yet we have little understanding of how exactly ‘context’ affects outcomes. This article focuses on the question of ‘context’ in social accountability (SA) initiatives by separating macro- and micro-contextual factors. On the macro side (country level), accountability processes need to take into account broad factors such as national histories of citizen–state engagemen…
In the pipeline: The governance of water supply to urban informal settlements
This paper explores the politics and governance issues underpinning small-scale informal service providers, to extract insights into how water provisioning for the poor works in the periphery of large cities. Drawing on exploratory field research in a large informal settlement at the urban fringe of New Delhi, we show that while informal network water providers fill a gap left by public delivery systems, residents are often captive consumers caug…
Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability: Complementary Strategies Toward Rights-based Development in Health
Citizen-based accountability strategies to improve the lives of the poor and marginalized groups are increasingly being used in efforts to improve basic public services. The latest thinking suggests that broader, multi-pronged, multi-level, strategic approaches that may overcome the limitations of narrow, localized successes, hold more promise. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities, in theory and practice, posed by the integration …
Localising National Accountability Claims in Fragile Settings: The Right to Food Campaign in India
How does a national movement go local in places with multiple armed actors, simultaneously retaining credibility at the grass roots, while making claims and negotiating with the state? This article explores how a rights-based movement, the Right to Food (RTF) in India, with a strong national core and some state-level support expanded into areas that were experiencing militant insurgency. We find that the RTF movement was able to coexist with the …
Introduction: Accountability Amidst Fragility, Conflict, and Violence: Learning from Recent Cases
Conflict, violence, and fragility exacerbate the difficulties faced by poor and marginalised people, particularly in influencing the policy decisions that affect their lives. Comparing five cases in conflict-affected contexts, this introduction highlights a number of approaches. It emphasises the importance of distinguishing processes of accountability from those of empowerment, and recognising the complexities of the relationships between them. …
Glossary
Governance for Building Back Better
The pandemic is in many ways a crisis of governance. It has created a set of unique challenges that underscore the need for governments to collect revenue more efficiently and equitably; and to spend it more inclusively, transparently, and accountably, especially on the most vulnerable and marginalised populations. In this article, we suggest a set of governance interventions to help create conditions for building effective and inclusive institut…
An integrated framework for the improvement of school bus services: Understanding commuters’ perceptions for sustainable school bus transportation
Citizen action for accountability in challenging contexts: What have we learned
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan
What makes “difficult” settings difficult? Contextual challenges for accountability
Political science (26 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Public relations (15 works) · Business (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Corporate governance (10 works) · Accountability (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works)