Ella Network

Updates on our fanpage may come a little slow from now on, but remember you can still find all our news and research products on our website! Why not visit it from time to time?

►Find us at: http://ella.practicalaction.org/

Missed any of our thematic stories? You can now download the all the stories from the ELLA Programme (2014-2017) in a single publication!

This booklet brings together stories of the impacts that are emerging from the second phase of ELLA, focused on impacts in Africa, recording how the evidence on the issues investigated by the twelve research centres has been accessed, discussed, absorbed and used by African participants in the programme: by members of civil society, government officials and researchers.

► Find it at: http://bit.ly/2z9hK69

DFID - UK Department for International Development, Soluciones Prácticas, Practical Action, GRADE, Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo, Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, Fundar México, Grupo FARO, ACODEUganda, Vippal Cippec, Vippal, OSSREA Publications, Fundaungo, Fedesarrollo, Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)

As the second phase of the ELLA Programme comes to a close, Mark Lewis, our director, shares two stories of inter-regional lesson learning and policy impact achieved by the programme.
►http://bit.ly/2ySD1QB

DFID - UK Department for International Development, Soluciones Prácticas, Practical Action

Our research on turning laws on domestic violence into effective action is helping civil society re-think its strategies in Ghana, and supporting activists in their support for women in Nigeria and Sudan

►Find out more about how here: http://bit.ly/2yRBSZn

Fundar México, DFID - UK Department for International Development

Our research on the conditions for success in community-based approaches to preventing crime has fed into government and community thinking in Nigerian security programmes, and into managing conflict in rural Kenya.

►Impact stories at: http://bit.ly/2gIArG7

University of Ibadan, Fundaungo, DFID - UK Department for International Development

Our synthesis of the key policies for promoting Local Content in the Oil and Gas industries is being shared and used to inform thinking in countries new to the sector in East Africa, as well as in more established producers in West, North and Central Africa.

►You can find stories on its impacts at: http://bit.ly/2xoo3Ou

Grupo FARO, ACODEUganda, DFID - UK Department for International Development

Inter-regional research and knowledge exchange can help us look at issues on a different perspective.

The ELLA research on the heterogeneity of the labour sector has been used to inform pro-poor programmes in South Africa and regulatory policies for towns in Zimbabwe and Nigeria, as well as to revise attitudes towards informality in Colombia.

►You can read some impact stories at: http://bit.ly/2z87H18

Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU), Fedesarrollo, DFID - UK Department for International Development

Our research on the importance of collective land access rights to pastoralist production systems is feeding into policies and programmes in Kenya, Uganda and other African countries where pastoralist livelihoods and the environment are under threat.

►You can learn more about its impacts in: http://bit.ly/2y6jInK

GRADE, Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo, Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, DFID - UK Department for International Development

Does inter-regional knowledge exchange bear fruits? We certainly think it does!

Starting today, we'll be sharing some impact stories focused on different subjects. Today: !

►Read them at: http://bit.ly/2yLlASo
CIPPEC, Vippal, OSSREA Publications

Continuando nuestra discusión sobre , un documento en español:

Nuestro nuevo doumento de política analiza la rendición de cuentas desde la reforma constitucional de 1994 en y las lecciones que podemos encontrar en esa experiencia.

► Pueden leer más en: http://bit.ly/2qFfOLb

CIPPEC, Vippal, Soluciones Prácticas

Have you read our new paper?

How can we determine the performance of horizontal accountability mechanisms? What can we learn from the cases of Argentina and Kenya?

Research conducted by our colleagues from CIPPEC and OSSREA
►Full text: http://bit.ly/2pdUCK4

OSSREA Publications, Vippal Cippec, DFID - UK Department for International Development, Practical Action, Soluciones Prácticas, Institute of Development Studies