NORTHERN - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Program Officer for the Ford Foundation
- Vice President for Research at the Universidad Del Pacífico
Role
Cynthia Sanborn is Vice President for Research at the Universidad del Pacífico (CIUP) and Professor of Political Science at the same university. She is lead researcher on the ESID Politics of Natural Resources project in Peru.
Cynthia has written and edited articles and books on issues related to politics and development in Latin America, including work on corporate social responsibility and the extractive industries, and on Chinese investment in Peru and the Andes.
She is currently part of the Working Group on Development and the Environment in the Americas, based at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-range Future at Boston University. She has held the William Henry Bloomberg Chair at Harvard University, where she was also Director of the Program on Philanthropy, Civil Society and Social Change in Latin America (PASCA).
Cynthia has been a program officer for the Ford Foundation in New York and Santiago de Chile, and a consultant for various other foundations and development agencies. She has also been a member of the national working group of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Peru, representing the university sector, and was president of the board of the Peruvian Economic and Social Research Consortium (CIES), a 48-member association of public and private universities, thinktanks and NGOs, from 2013 to 2016.
Role
David Hulme is CEO at ESID. He is also Professor of Development Studies and Executive Director of the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester. From 2000 to 2010 he was Director at the Chronic Poverty Research Centre.
Routley, L. and Hulme, D. (2013). ‘Donors, development agencies and the use of political economic analysis: getting to grips with the politics of development?‘. ESID Working Paper No. 19. Manchester.
Ideas @ IDRC : Listen to David Hulme as he responds to questions about development.
Role
Abdul-Gafaru is a lecturer at the Department of Public Administration, University of Ghana Business School. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Manchester. Within ESID he has produced a conceptual and methodological framework for comparative research into the politics of spatial inequality, contributing to ESID's primary research within Programme Four - ‘The politics of recognition'.
Role
Anna McCord is a sociologist with a PhD in economics and over 25 years experience working in international development. She is working on ESID's research into the political economy of social protection expansion in Africa, in Kenya.
Anna is a research economist and sociologist, specialising in social protection programme design and evaluation, with a particular interest in programme impact at household level, public works and labour markets, and political economy. Anna has experience throughout sub-Saharan Africa, as well as South and Southeast Asia, having worked with a range of governments, major donors, UN agencies and non-governmental agencies. She has an MA from the University of Cambridge in Social and Political Science, a Diploma in Economics from the Open University, and a Masters and PhD in Economics from the University of Cape Town.
McCord, A. (2013). ‘The pursuit of public welfare: Analysis of the institutional context informing the extension of donor supported social protection in developing countries'. Paper prepared for the EC.
Role
Badru Bukenya is a lecturer at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration. He is also a Research Associate at ESID, the University of Manchester.
B. Bukenya and S. Hickey (2019). ‘The shifting fortunes of the economic technocracy in Uganda: Caught between state-building and regime survival?‘ ESID Working Paper No. 121. Manchester.
Bukenya, B. and Yanguas, P. (2013). ‘Building state capacity for inclusive development. The politics of public sector reform‘. ESID Working Paper No. 25. Manchester.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate at ESID
Role
Dr David Jackman is a Research Associate at ESID, working on the capital cities and political settlements project, and Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Oxford. He completed his PhD in International Development from the University of Bath in 2017.
Job Titles:
- Group Member of the Centre for Social Protection
- Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies
- Social Policy Researcher
Role
Deepta Chopra is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). She is involved with ESID on a research project examining the political determinants of MGNREGA's implementation, leading the qualitative work on this project.
Deepta is a social policy researcher, with a focus on rights-based policies and programming. She has extensive experience in policy analysis from a political economy perspective, mainly around state-society relations in the making and implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and the Food Rights Act in India. Deepta leads the gender work at IDS on women's and girls' empowerment, with her research interests focussing on gendered political economy analysis of policies for the empowerment of women and girls, and its core links with unpaid care work.
Deepta is currently working on ESID's project on The Political Economy Determinants of Policy Implementation: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India, resulting in a number of working papers.
‘Political commitment in India's social policy implementation: Shaping the performance of MGNREGA‘, ESID Working Paper No. 50. Manchester.
‘They don't want to work' versus ‘They don't want to provide work': Seeking explanations for the decline of MGNREGA in Rajasthan‘, ESID Working Paper No.
Koehler, G. and Chopra. D (ed.) (2014). Development and Welfare Policy in South Asia. Routledge (Single authored chapters in the book include Chapter 6: ‘The Indian case: towards a rights based Welfare State' and Chapter 12: ‘Welfare, development, rights in South Asia').
Deepta is the lead for the ‘Economic Empowerment of Women and Girls' theme in the DFID-funded Accountable Grant; and primary investigator for the unpaid care work programme. She is also the course convenor for MA (Development Studies) and module convenor for the core course ‘Poverty Policy and Programmes' at IDS.
Role
Denise Humphreys Bebbington is Director of Women's and Gender Studies, and Associate Research Professor at the Department of International Development, Community and Environment (IDSC) at Clark University, USA. She is Lead Researcher on ESID's politics of natural resources project in Bolivia.
Job Titles:
- Head of Research and Programmes, and Deputy Director at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development
Role
Franklin Oduro is Head of Research and Programmes, and Deputy Director at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), a key partner within the ESID research consortium. Franklin is Lead Researcher on ESID's education project in Ghana and the coordinator for all ESID research at CDD-Ghana.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer
- Researcher With ESID
Role
Dr Tom Goodfellow is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. Prior to Sheffield, he taught International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also completed his PhD and was an Associate of the Crisis States Research Centre.
He has acted as an advisor to Oxfam on urban development issues and provided policy analysis for a range of international organisations and government authorities in Africa, and is currently beginning a new two-year ESRC-funded project on how China is helping to re-shape urban development in Africa.
Tom is a researcher with ESID on our political economy determinants of economic growth programme, focusing primarily on Rwanda.
Goodfellow, T. and Titeca, K. (2012) ‘Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival' in Kampala's informal economy‘. Cities, 29(4): 264-270.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Politics and Development at the University of Manchester
Role
Sam Hickey is Professor of Politics and Development at the University of Manchester, and Joint Director of Research at the ESID research centre. He is also Research Director at the Global Development Institute, where ESID is based.
T. Lavers and S. Hickey (2015). ‘Investigating the political economy of social protection expansion in Africa: at the intersection of transnational ideas and domestic politics‘, ESID Working Paper No. 47. Manchester.
A.-G. Abdulai and S. Hickey (2014). ‘Rethinking the politics of development in Africa? How the "political settlement" shapes resource allocation in Ghana‘, ESID Working Paper No. 38. Manchester.
F. Golooba-Mutebi and S. Hickey (2013). ‘Investigating the links between political settlements and inclusive development in Uganda: towards a research agenda', ESID Working Paper No.