From global rights to local practices : fostering participation at the micro-level in Latin America - final technical report

The project aims to create actionable policy proposals to make spaces of participation more effective in five countries in Latin America, and to contribute to the needs of existing social movements within their local contexts. Currently the study is mapping specific effects of implementation of participatory reforms on the distribution of power and resources in communities, the pathways through which such effects are produced, the accountability of domestic decision-makers, and impacts on successive iterations of legal reform. A high level of mistrust of national institutions exists where those institutions threaten advocates for fighting against development projects.