Social and community development

The ARU JBSED invites papers that focus on the following topics, but are not limited to: local governance; public administration and policy; governance, social service delivery (e.g. health, water and sanitation, education, community support services), social monitoring and community development; social protection and poverty reduction; gender, diversity, and social responsibility; government policy, digitalization and social innovation. Additional areas of interest include: civic engagement, participatory governance, community-based monitoring and citizen science; public sector reform; decentralization and capacity development, e-governance and digital public services; urban and rural policy development; migration and social integration; community resilience and disaster response; and the role of NGOs and civil society in development.