States at Work

Bierschenk, Thomas; Sardan, Jean‐Pierre Olivier de

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“…These characteristics, such as levels of education, national stability, corruption, poor governance of health systems, the many interfaces between global health projects and local institutions, and the physical, climatic, and geographic environment, are relevant in the innovation process [ 15 , 121 , 122 ]. In addition, gender inequalities and cultural norms and practices are also contextual factors that are crucial determinants in scaling up and sustainability processes [ 123 ].…”

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A conceptualisation of scale-up and sustainability of social innovations in global health: a narrative review and integrative framework for action

Niang

Alami

Gagnon

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Global Health Action

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Background The scale-up and sustainability of social innovations for health have received increased interest in global health research in recent years; however, these ambiguous concepts are poorly defined and insufficiently theorised and studied. Researchers, policymakers, and practitioners lack conceptual clarity and integrated frameworks for the scale-up and sustainability of global health innovations. Often, the frameworks developed are conceived in a linear and deterministic or consequentialist vision of the diffusion of innovations. This approach limits the consideration of complexity in scaling up and sustaining innovations. Objective By using a systems theory lens and conducting a narrative review, this manuscript aims to produce an evidence-based integrative conceptual framework for the scale-up and sustainability of global health innovations. Method We conducted a hermeneutic narrative review to synthetise different definitions of scale-up and sustainability to model an integrative definition of these concepts for global health. We have summarised the literature on the determinants that influence the conditions for innovation success or failure while noting the interconnections between internal and external innovation environments. Results The internal innovation environment includes innovation characteristics (effectiveness and testability, monitoring and evaluation systems, simplification processes, resource requirements) and organisational characteristics (leadership and governance, organisational change, and organisational viability). The external innovation environment refers to receptive and transformative environments; the values, cultures, norms, and practices of individuals, communities, organisations, and systems; and other contextual characteristics relevant to innovation development. Conclusion From these syntheses, we proposed an interconnected framework for action to better guide innovation researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in incorporating complexity and systemic interactions between internal and external innovation environments in global health.

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A conceptualisation of scale-up and sustainability of social innovations in global health: a narrative review and integrative framework for action

Niang

Alami

Gagnon

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Global Health Action

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“…Secondly, it is argued that a critical analysis of the formulation and implementation of recent land investment policies provides information about the historical trajectory of the Tanzanian state (Bayart, 1989) in more general terms (policies make politics). Thus, the article contributes to this special issue both by studying a "state at work" (Bierschenk and Olivier de Sardan, 2014) in the negotiation of land deals and by situating LSLDs in a broader discussion on the (trans) formation of African states.…”

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Negotiating Land Policies to Territorialise State Power

Schlimmer¹

2019

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Land policies have been shaping the (trans)formation of the Tanzanian state since independence. Nevertheless, Tanzania has been referred to as a target country of the international "land rush," which is often associated with a declining role of state actors in the land sector. This article argues, on the contrary, that the negotiations of land deals since the end of the 2000s have reconfirmed an interdependent relationship between land policy processes and state-building. While the formulation of investment-promoting land policies since the 1990s suggests that the privatisation of the sector has increased the leeway for foreign investors, their implementation has reaffirmed the omnipresence of state power. More broadly, the theoretical aim of this article is to consider large-scale land deals as a heuristic object for studies in political science investigating state (trans)formation in Africa.

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International Development, Anthropology in

Axelby¹

2018

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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The direct involvement of anthropologists in international development ebbs and flows, while ethnographic researchers consistently offer a critique of aid, especially the damage it causes. Anthropologists' navigation of the ethics, pressures, and contradictions of aid has in common with all development professionals an increasing preoccupation with managerialism and a focus on representation, funding, planning, and audit. They stand with fewer allies in their aim to amplify the diverse voices of those on the periphery. The pessimism and critical mode of anthropological research on international development is explained through ethnographic examples organized around key development themes of poverty, technology, rights, governance, security, and empowerment. Anthropologists continue to offer a distinctive perspective: wary of reductive generalization and attentive to specific context (time and place); empirical, historical, and reflexive; and interweaving attention to method with theory in their interpretations. The institutional exigencies and power hierarchies that they understand intimately, but struggle to overturn, limit their impact.

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States at Work

Cited by 256 publications

References 85 publications

A conceptualisation of scale-up and sustainability of social innovations in global health: a narrative review and integrative framework for action

A conceptualisation of scale-up and sustainability of social innovations in global health: a narrative review and integrative framework for action

Negotiating Land Policies to Territorialise State Power

International Development, Anthropology in

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