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Accountability mechanisms in community-driven reconstruction in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
A lack of accountability is often considered a root cause of conflict. Many post-conflict reconstruction efforts therefore aim to enhance accountability between authorities and the population through community-driven reconstruction (CDR) programmes. This article examines the details of the accountability mechanisms in the Tushiriki CDR programme in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Based on ethnographic research, we found little impact of formal programme accountability. Rather, accountability was shaped differently and had its own context-specific meaning. To make accountability more sustainable, stronger embeddedness in local institutions and more appropriate translations of abstract concepts into the local context are needed
Pathways to women’s empowerment: Navigating the hybrid social order in eastern DRC.
Working paper 76. Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, London, Overseas Development Institute.The United Nations’ Agenda 2030 aims to achieve
gender equality as part of the 5th Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG). Yet, the way to reach this
goal remains under-researched – particularly in rural,
conflict-affected communities in the eastern Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC). This paper uses the donorfunded, community-driven reconstruction programme
‘Tuungane’ as the foundation on which to analyse
changes in gender norms in the context of a ‘hybrid
social order’, defined as the interplay between ‘modern’
norms (state and non-governmental institutions);
religious (church institutions) and traditional (institutions
based on customary law)