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Scoring for Africa
Africa, Civil Society, Conflict, Corruption, Europe and CIS, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Public Administration, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationAhead of the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup on Friday, former UN Secretary-General and Chair of the Africa Progress Panel, Kofi Annan and United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador and football star Didier Drogba will today publish ‘Scoring for Africa – An Alternative Guide to the World Cup’. Set out in the form of a ‘grudge-match’ report, the...
Strengthening African Governance: index of african governance results and rankings
Africa, Conflict, Electoral Systems, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Justice, Report, Academic/Think TankThe Index of African Governance is compiled and updated annually by a team of researchers at Harvard University and across Africa, under the leadership of Robert I. Rotberg and Rachel M. Gisselquist. The 2007 and 2008 editions of the Index were published as the Ibrahim Index of African Governance. In the first edition, published in 2007, Rotberg and Gisselquist set out the Index’...
Demanding Good Governance: Lessons from Social Accountability Initiatives in Africa
Africa, Book, Civil Society, Democracy, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Political Parties, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietySocial accountability refers to the wide range of citizen actions to hold the state to account, as well as actions on the part of government, media, and other actors that promote or facilitate these efforts. Social accountability strategies and tools help empower ordinary citizens to exercise their inherent rights to hold governments accountable for the use of public funds and how they exercise...
2010 State of the Union Continental Report - Deliver the dream: Time to close the gap between continental promises and the reality of African people
Africa, Civil Society, Democracy, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Public Administration, Report, Civil SocietyThis reports finds an alarming gap between AU legal instruments and policy standards, the policies and practises of most Member States. Unless there is a change in the behaviour of both African Union organs and Member States, the many important decisions being taken at continental levels risk the danger of not being implemented. This will continue to have devastating consequences for the...