Development in Practice

1996 - 2026

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Volume 36, issue 7, 2026

Gender norms for gender justice: power, transformation, and the politics of change pp. 1205-1218

Sophie Legros and Camille Maubert

“The revolution might be a start … ” – gender norm change amongst Chin refugees in Mizoram, India pp. 1219-1229

Henri Myrttinen and Lal Rin Sangi

Unsettling the (dis)order: youth migration and the subversion of gender norms in Ethiopia pp. 1230-1239

Elizabeth Dessie

“He had to get used to it”: negotiating gender norms and domestic equality in urban Colombia pp. 1240-1253

Sophie Legros

Negotiating gender norms: exploring the lived experience of women commercial drivers in Lagos, Nigeria pp. 1254-1266

Ibrahim Bidemi Abdullateef, Oluwatoyin Rebecca Omotola and Luqman Ọpẹ́yẹmí Muraina

“I became a lioness, before I was like a sheep”: Rwandan agripreneurs performing gender norms pp. 1267-1281

Mélanie Surchat, Bianca Clément, Micline Irakoze, Germaine Akeza Nkunzurwanda and Speciose Kantengwa

Documenting norms: understanding the mechanisms driving social norm change for women in urban Pakistan pp. 1282-1292

Rabea Malik and Tayyaba Tamim

“I can do anything”: renegotiating masculinity among South African men receiving child-centred cash transfers pp. 1293-1305

Zoheb Khan and Leila Patel

Religion legitimising cultural change: microevidence from Zambia’s traditional marriage counsellors pp. 1306-1315

Benjamin Kalkum

The “good woman” paradox: cultural translation of women’s empowerment in Ghana’s Upper West Region pp. 1316-1329

Charity Dodoo and Franka Vaughan

Rupture and the rehearsal of new worlds: disrupting norms in the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 1330-1341

Camille Maubert

Facilitating change: personal journeys of male facilitators in gender and masculinities programming with adolescent boys pp. 1342-1350

Niharika Ravi and Akshat Singhal

Transforming social norms: striving for a future without FGM/C in Somalia pp. 1351-1360

Dipankar Datta

Becoming difficult over time? Women’s voluntary labour in the Indian Sundarbans pp. 1361-1373

Janet Clark, Sumana Banerjee, Matt Baillie Smith, Nandita Jayraman and Melisa Maida

Education programs for out-of-school adolescent girls in Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal: the effects on gender norms in decision-making and aspirations pp. 1374-1389

Asma Zubairi, Monazza Aslam, Romanshi Gupta, Shenila Rawal and Pauline Rose

From “Mother Theresa group” to “crazy girls gang of Thanda”: adolescent girls as agents of norm change pp. 1390-1397

Shantha Sinha, Rekha Wazir and Linda van der Wijk

Measuring social norms for gender and development: gaps and lessons pp. 1398-1411

Kate Bedford and Magalí Brosio

Gender, norms, and data-driven development: a framework for measuring better pp. 1412-1420

Tara Patricia Cookson

Agroecological logbooks: a methodological approach that contributes towards shifting social and gender norms in agricultural production pp. 1426-1434

Rodica Weitzman

“We are still men:” a study on communities of practice(s) (re)producing gender and disability norms pp. 1435-1446

Helenard Louw

Art, storytelling, and play in the study of empowerment: applications for creative approaches in development research pp. 1447-1459

Katharine McNamara, Chesney McOmber and Sarah L. McKune

Volume 36, issue 6, 2026

Interrogating localisation from social justice perspectives pp. 999-1003

Emily Finlay

Northern NGO-centrism in localisation processes: reproducing power inequities in the aid field pp. 1004-1014

Gijs van Selm, Badru Bukenya, Innocent Kamya, Emmanuel Kumi, Thomas Yeboah, Nicola Banks, Willem Elbers, Lau Schulpen and Margit van Wessel

Asking for an impossible task? Potentials and limitations of locally led development cooperation in Cambodia pp. 1015-1025

Yunjeong Yang

Locally led development through country-level CSO coalitions? The case of a climate advocacy program pp. 1026-1039

Margit van Wessel and Wenny Ho

Interrogating local organisational capacity in humanitarian localisation: insights from Bangladeshi NGOs in the Rohingya response pp. 1040-1051

Abdul Kadir Khan

Localising Women, Peace, and Security: community agency and ownership beyond national policies pp. 1052-1062

Katrina Leclerc

Strategies for “a local turn”: trust and commitment pp. 1063-1076

Emma Brittain and Vandra Harris Agisilaou

Localising human rights: the implications for advocating for alleged witches' rights in Ghana pp. 1077-1087

Issah Wumbla

Local NGOs’ added value and the unintended consequences of the aid localisation agenda in Ghana pp. 1088-1100

Emmanuel Kumi, Mohammed-Anwar Sadat Adam, Palash Kamruzzaman and Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko

A social justice analysis of localisation: Start Network as a case study pp. 1101-1112

Kia Howson

Reinstating the political in localisation pp. 1113-1125

Marie-Claude Savard

Beyond the rhetoric of participation: deconstructing power and social justice in localised development interventions in Nigeria pp. 1126-1138

Omonye Omoigberale

Localisation without transformation: dynamics of “localisation” in South Sudan’s humanitarian arena pp. 1139-1150

Alice Robinson

Social return on investment (SROI) – a practical framework for strengthening localisation and social justice pp. 1151-1164

Shubha Kumar, Sara Olsen, Aaron Mallet and Saji Prelis

Unintended effects of localisation: coalitions and professionalism of women working in NGOs in Vietnam pp. 1165-1175

Binh Thi An Trinh

Between rhetoric and practice of localisation in aid and development: poetic interventions pp. 1176-1187

MacBain Mkandawire, Lemani Makina, Jessica Noske-Turner and Mufunanji Magalasi

Twenty-eight years of the PESA Act in India: development or deprivation? Perspectives of elected tribal leaders pp. 1188-1195

Dipti Paridhi Kindo

Addressing inequities through localised interventions: lessons from a network governance initiative for sanitation in India pp. 1196-1204

Sruthi Pillai

Volume 36, issue 5, 2026

Development futures: an introduction pp. 817-821

Violeta Schubert

Resting on our laurels? Challenging coloniality in Aotearoa New Zealand’s INGOs pp. 822-833

Honour Musuku

Beyond domesticity: empowering women and restoring ecosystems in Uttarakhand, India pp. 834-846

Kritika Mishra and Farhat Naz

Development by other means? Localising environmental, social, and governance principles in tourism governance in Vietnam pp. 847-859

Nghia Le

Different forms of localised peacebuilding in South Sudan pp. 860-870

Kuol Garang

Decolonising development practice from the classroom through “engaged reflexivity” pp. 871-881

Denisse Rodríguez and David Lozada

From potential nature to social disasters: the challenges of the new Indonesian capital city project pp. 882-893

Wasisto Raharjo Jati

Gendered vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies in the char-chapori areas of Assam (India–Bangladesh Border) pp. 894-903

Mofidur Rahman, Tabassum Rizvi and Shubhrajeet Konwer

Bridging the gap: success factors in humanitarian–development integration and links with peacebuilding pp. 904-931

Garry Stevens, Nidhi Wali, Nichole Georgeou, Eden Conway and Charles Ball

Critical intersections between disability, education, and development in Uganda: a nation in liminality pp. 932-943

Rebecca Nalwanga Tamusuza, Violeta Schubert and Keith R. Mcvilly

Embodied Futures: using Applied Theatre approaches in Timor-Leste to support Futures Thinking pp. 944-953

Deanna Borland-Sentinella

The contribution of church women to community development in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe pp. 954-965

Angel Ndlovu and Busani Mpofu

An intersectionally aware process for securing free, prior, and informed consent in community-based research pp. 966-975

Tessa D. Toumbourou, Mia Siscawati, Ariane Utomo, Hariati Sinaga, Shelly Adelina, Ardianingtyas Ibni Albar, Hevirona Bani Adam, Deti, Laura Graham, Lambang Septiawan and Andrea Rawluk

Reconceptualizing the New Brazilian High School (“Novo Ensino Médio”) through a critical pedagogy lens pp. 976-983

João Akio Ribeiro Yamaguchi

Development brut – a new concept to understand and appreciate outsider development pp. 984-990

Stephen Thompson

The dark side of information and communication technologies for development: analysing encumbrances as well as affordances pp. 991-998

Joseph G. Bock, Ziaul Haque and Kevin McMahon

Volume 36, issue 4, 2026

Editorial: humanitarianism and development pp. 619-620

Patrick Kilby

The pitfalls of the humanitarian principles “impartiality” and “humanity” in humanitarian aid in Borno, Nigeria pp. 621-635

Abdul Hafiz Wando

Aid localisation in the humanitarian engineering sector: investigating influencing factors and changes pp. 636-647

Manjeet Raj Pandey, Emma Stine and Amy Javernick Will

Integrating peacebuilding into the triple nexus: insights from UNICEF's dual mandate pp. 648-671

Christina Plesner Volkdal

Foreign aid and civil society in Tunisia’s interregnum: between empowerment and dependency pp. 672-685

Akram Jabri and Mokbul Morshed Ahmad

Caste equity and humanitarian aid: Dalit-led NGO perspectives on Nepal’s 2015 earthquake response pp. 686-698

Bishnu Pariyar

Resilience through knowledge: insights into knowledge sharing in Palestinian NGOs pp. 699-714

Rashed Al Jayousi and Yuko Nishide

Reframing participatory governance: a critical policy analysis of community-based development in urban Indonesia pp. 715-726

Yogi Suprayogi Sugandi

What to avoid to minimise conflicts in oil palm zones? Lessons from Indonesia pp. 727-738

Bintar Mupiza, Dedi Kurnia Syah Putra and Chusak Wittayapak

Intersectional issues in NGO-led short-term social innovation projects in Ethiopia: a conditioned call for a “shift in practice” pp. 739-752

Melisew Dejene, Tafesse Matewos and Tenaw Fentaw

Decolonising aid architecture: a postcolonial critique of donor practices in West Africa pp. 753-765

Taofik Oyewo Hussain

Advancing STEM education in Indonesia: multistakeholder partnership collaboration to achieve SDG 4 pp. 766-773

Stephanie Riady

Simulated care and moral identity: AI’s quiet unsettling of development practice pp. 774-778

Emil Dauncey

Filtered realities: translating knowledge from conflict-affected borderlands to policy pp. 779-784

Faryal Khan and Hilina Berhanu Degefa

Pacific NGOs weighing up our research capacities pp. 785-791

Manasa Duvaga, Malia Suliana Falemaka, Gerard Prinsen, Cema Rokodredre and Ioanna Taraia

Beyond harmony: lessons from intercultural conflict mitigation between Mandar and Javanese communities in West Sulawesi pp. 792-799

Yani Tri Wijayanti

Blurred lines for Middle Eastern civil society: a practitioner's take on purpose, identity, and donor pressures pp. 800-806

Ahmed Abdelhakim Hachelaf

Arts-based research and global development – performing knowledge pp. 807-808

Faval Copedo

Dear development practitioner: advice for the next generation pp. 808-810

Jae-Eun Noh

Humanitarianism: a very short introduction pp. 811-812

Patrick Kilby

Development in Practice Reviewer of the Year Prize pp. 813-813

The Editors

Retraction statement pp. 814-814

The Editors

Correction pp. 815-815

The Editors

Volume 36, issue 3, 2026

Correction pp. i-i

The Editors

Editorial pp. 387-388

Patrick Kilby

Invisible workers: unpacking gendered commercialisation of agriculture in Assam, India pp. 389-399

Sonali Boro and Madhurima Goswami

Gender dynamics in space appropriation by street vendors – the case of Chennai city, India pp. 400-415

Reshmi Panicker and Madhushree Sekher

Integrating gender considerations in feed and forages research pp. 416-432

E. Njuguna-Mungai, A. Galiè, Z. Terfa, B. Lukuyu, A. J. Duncan and C. Jones

Invisible labour, unequal burden: gender, institutions, and the unpaid care economy in India pp. 433-449

Avik Ghosh

Gender analysis of the use of information communication technologies in the agricultural development and extension program of the University of Nigeria Nsukka pp. 450-461

Nnadi Onyinyechi Ifeanyi, Okeke Chinaza Cynthia, Onah Ogochukwu Gabriela, Ayogu Chiebonam Justina, Ossai Onyinyechi Gift and Ozioko Remigius Ikechukwu

Gendered drivers of post-adoption abandonment of rain-fed upland “New Rice for Africa” (NERICA) rice varieties in central Benin pp. 462-473

Tomonori Yokouchi and Kazuki Saito

Women chiefs and rural development in Northern Ghana: exploring pognamine’s role in Dorimon and Wechiau pp. 474-484

Adams Sabogu, Frederick Der Bebelleh and Francis Nangbeviel Sanyare

Empowering women in politics through institutional engagement: lessons from women's development forums in Bangladesh pp. 485-497

Pranab Kumar Panday and Quamrul Alam

Measuring financial inclusion vulnerability and digital inclusion vulnerability among the widowed women in Odisha (India) pp. 498-508

Prakash Chandra Lenka and Rajesh Barik

Rewriting mobility: identifying the agency of women within the patriarchal structure of migration in Dhaka pp. 509-518

Rasheda Rawnak Khan

Navigating access: Muslim women’s participation in higher education in India pp. 519-530

Aysha Malik

Women’s faith-based organisations and collaborative social accountability for achieving health equity in Indonesia pp. 531-542

Nurul Widyaningrum, Charina Chazali and Isono Sadoko

Empowering women through paid care work: a case study in Mae Kampong Village in Thailand pp. 543-553

Nazmul Islam and Petra Lemberger

Empowering women farmers through home gardens in South Kalimantan, Indonesia pp. 554-564

Muhammad Alif, Hartoni, Rosalina Kumalawati and Astinana Yuliarti

Fostering inclusivity: factors influencing women cocoa farmers’ access to agricultural extension services in Ghana pp. 565-575

Kwabena Buabeng, Katharina Löhr, Richard Asare and Stefan Sieber

Gendered space, gendered time: Kolkata’s “Reclaim the Night” movement pp. 576-579

Sucharita Sen

Sacred gender, Indigenous identity, and community resilience: development lessons from the bissu in South Sulawesi pp. 580-586

Asrul Nur Iman

Empowering microenterprises digitally: research reflections on women in Jakarta's fish processing sector pp. 587-594

Aska Leonardi

“Men are the head; women are the neck”: examining dynamics between female agency and cultural nuances pp. 595-602

Amelia G. Bird, Jessica L. Boxall, Mohammed Malle Abdulai, Michael G. Head, Abdul Kasiru Shani and Patience Kanyiri Gaa

Secular and religious politics in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh: a comparative analysis pp. 603-605

A. K. M. Ahsan Ullah

Navigating “responsibility” in gender-based violence research: a decolonial feminist reflection pp. 606-617

Lubna Jebin

Volume 36, issue 2, 2026

List of Reviewers for Development in Practice in 2025 pp. i-xx

Emily Finlay

Climate and adaptation pp. 139-142

Emily Finlay

Bridging the science-policy divide in Bhutan’s agriculture sector: viewpoint pp. 143-149

Kesang Wangchuk and Jigme Wangdi

Inclusive climate communication; learning to podcast or learning to listen? pp. 150-155

Jane Alver

The frog in the well was never blind: deconstructing empowerment in participatory forest governance pp. 156-162

Patatri Baidya

Reimagining climate justice through Indigenous ecological knowledge and community-led digital knowledge hubs pp. 163-169

Soufiane Haddout

From theory to practice: lessons from transformative learning through a net-zero design competition pp. 170-175

Abid Mehmood, Abdur Rehman Cheema, Madiha Salam, Saeed Ud Din Ahmed, Alireza Moghayedi, Vasilena Vassilev and Rania Aburamadan

Ritual, responsibility, and resilience: a practice note from the Bali Spirit Festival, Indonesia pp. 176-182

Ilona Annisa Ristiani

Unequal resilience: adaptive strategies among smallholder farmers in Indonesia pp. 183-196

Farida Mardhatilla, Lies Sulistyowati, Trisna Insan Noor and Hepi Hapsari

Gendered exclusion in tourism: intersectionality and institutional barriers in rural Indonesia pp. 197-208

Rastina Kalla, Roslina Alam and Muhammad Azizurrohman

Climate adaptation and livelihood strategies in the Madurese community of Sumenep, Indonesia pp. 209-221

Agus Danugroho, Rustinsyah Rustinsyah, Muhammad Adib and Usman Idris

The Babatana Rainforest in Solomon Islands: a practice-based field trip for unlearning the world pp. 222-236

Kristen Lyons, Peter Walters, Nicole Garofano, Rose Bouro, Gideon Bouro, Yi Hung Chen, Zara Childs, Leah Clayton, Josephine Cook, Erinn Davenport, Rachel Donovan, Amber Edser, Sarra Hodson, Alycia Kawitzki, Willowbie Kingston-Trotter, Trent Moses and Elizabeth Nguyen

Can farmers’ producers organisations be a sustainable livelihood program for farmers’ wellbeing, in Kerala, India? pp. 237-251

Veena Suresh, S. S. Sreejith, S. Vivek and Sandrine Bonin

Technical efficiency of rice in community-managed natural farming vs. conventional farming in Andhra Pradesh, India pp. 252-266

Jyothirmai Balla and Kishor Goswami

Promoting sustainable livelihoods for tribal communities: insights from the integrated tribal development project in Assam pp. 267-280

Bhaskar Kumar Kakati

Determinants of post-Pandemic household food insecurity: evidence from southern Assam, India pp. 281-294

Bishweshwar Bhattacharjee, Bireshwar Bhattacharjee and Santanu Choudhury

Unplanned urbanisation and drinking water insecurity in Faridpur City, Bangladesh pp. 295-310

Md. Sakib Mia, Mehnaz Parvin and Md. Jahidul Islam

Local adaptation policy responses to climate change: evidence from Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan pp. 311-326

Pariyal Fazal Shah, Muhammad Mumtaz, Tahir Mahmood and Umer Vaqar

Gender vulnerability and climate adaptation in high mountain regions: evidence from remote valleys in Gilgit-Baltistan pp. 327-340

Kifayat Ullah, Fatima Hasrat, Zia Ud Din and Amjad Ali

Gendered impacts of climate displacement: voices from resettled communities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan pp. 341-353

Wahid Ullah, Zhao Shaofeng, Ashfaq Ahmad Shah and Abdur Rauf

Impact and choices of short-run coping strategies on the resilience of commercial livestock farmers pp. 354-366

Yonas T. Bahta, Stephen Aniseth Nyaki and Frikkie Maré

Climate change adaptation among smallholder poultry farmers in the northeast of Nigeria pp. 367-379

Bulus Barnabas, Mustapha Yakubu Madaki, Ayat Ullah, Edvin Zhllima, Ayemi Salawu Jibril, Harald Kächele and Miroslava Bavorova

Building resilience: climate change and livelihoods in the Global South pp. 380-382

Rafnel Azhari, Adi Firmansyah and Siti Syamsiah

Food security and Islamic ethics: rights, policies and vulnerable groups pp. 382-385

M. Zaenul Muttaqin

Volume 36, issue 1, 2026

Responsible research in a polarising world pp. 1-5

Andrew Ainslie and Atenchong Talleh Nkobou

Beyond positionalities – engaging with academic and willful resistance through complex communication pp. 6-18

Atenchong Talleh Nkobou

Ethical research in cash-transfer programs pp. 19-35

Vibhor Mathur

It is beyond you – principles for rangeland research in multi-functional landscapes in South Africa pp. 36-43

Andiswa Finca

The reluctant researcher: reflexivity, engagement, and doing activist research in the Jordanian Badia pp. 44-55

Taraf Abu Hamdan

A student’s viewpoint: responsible research is relational pp. 56-60

Danielle Nadine Pierre

The politics of hiding and experiences of decentering development in mangrove rice farming in Guinea-Bissau pp. 61-72

Ana Luísa de Oliveira Moreira da Luz and Joana Vaz Sousa

Conducting transgender research with Rohingya hijra participants: reflections on methodological and ethical considerations pp. 73-90

Kazi Ashraf Uddin

Local knowledge and information initiatives in the conflict-affected eastern Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 91-105

Colette Mwamba Nsokele and Faila Kitomene Kika

Voices of change: public narrative storytelling communicates climate resilience actions in Kenya pp. 106-123

Mary Ng’endo and Esther Kariuki

International volunteering for capacity development of the host community: a relational approach pp. 124-137

Bishnu Bahadur Khatri and Gopal Khadka