Case studies
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Afghan Refugee in Japan
This case study is from a student research paper at the Institute of Development Studies and discusses how an Afghan refugee was shaped by and challenged power relations.
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Bringing Violence into the powercube
Jenny Pearce from the University of Bradford writes about using the powecube as part of evaluation workshops on the participation of civil society organisations in Colombia.
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Cooperatives in the UK
This case study is from a student research paper at the Institute of Development Studies and uses the forms dimension of the powercube to examine two small cooperatives in the UK.
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Crossing the Line: UK Activists Team Up with Health Officials
This case study from the Citizenship DRC looks at what can happen when people who see themselves as an opposing force
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Community Driven Development in Liberia
This case study is from a student research paper at the Institute of Development Studies and asks what kind of power is involved in community-driven development.
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Experience with a Learning Trajectory in Oxfam Novib
Conny Hoitink reflects on a ten month learning trajectory on power within Oxfam Novib enabling the organisation to focus on the quality of their rights-based approach to development.
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Canada’s Designs for Aboriginal Participation
This case study from the Citizenship DRC explores the value of separate participatory spaces for marginalised groups and new ways of thinking about including these groups in large scale deliberations.
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Councillors and Residents in Hove Park
This case study is from a student research paper at the Institute of Development Studies and shows how the powercube was used to investigate a local expression of participation in UK local governance.
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Gaining AIDS Treatment in South Africa
This case study from the Citizenship DRC presents the mobilisation strategies of South Africa’s most influential AIDS advocacy group the Treatment Action Campaign.
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In Bangladesh Citizens Leave a Legacy in Health
This case study from the Citizenship DRC describes the challenges of commuity-owned health clinics and Health Watch Committees created in Bangladesh to enhance community participation.
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Jubilee Debt Campaign
John Gaventa illustrates how the powercube may be applied to the analysis of debt and its relationships to poverty through the example of the Jubilee Debt Campagin.
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Kenyan Constitutional Reform
This case study from a student research paper at the Institute of Development Studies uses the powercube to assess whether constitutional reform shifted power relations in Kenya.
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Oxfam introduces Power Analysis to Programme Staff
Jo Rowlands reflects on introducing power concepts to programme staff from six country offices and the regional office in Oxfam GB’s Horn, East and Central Africa region.
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Power Analysis in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Andrew Edwards describes a workshop which introduced power analysis as a tool to promote local democratic accountability in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Taking a Seat on Brazil’s Health Councils
This case study by the Citizenship DRC asks who gets to sit in these new health councils and whose interests are represented through these citizen assemblies.
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Winning the Right to Information Campaign in India
This research summary shows how a national network of people’s organizations helped enact the Right to Information (RTI) Act legislation and ensure it was put into practice.
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Women Headed Households Empowerment Programme
This case study by Nani Zulminarni describes the Just Associates’ women-headed households empowerment
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Zimbabwe’s Power Sharing Deal
This case study from a student research paper at the Institute of Development Studies uses all three sides of the powercube to explore an extraordinary political process, removed from citizens and normal political practice but with huge implications for both.
