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Searching with a thematic focus on Democratic governance, Governance, Governance Assessments, Country Initiatives of assessing governance

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    Lessons in effective citizen activism: the anti-third term campaign in Zambia

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005
    In 2001, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba tried to change the country’s constitution to allow him to run for a third term. However, a civil society-led campaign forced the President to abandon the plan.
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    Lessons from citizen activism in Uganda

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    This paper highlights the role played by citizens who launched a campaign to prevent Uganda’s celebrated natural forest, the Mabira Central Forest Reserve, from being donated to a private sugar-growing and processing company. The paper presents tactics from this campaign as a lesson for approaching broader issues of governance.
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    Challenge of making governance assessments nationally owned

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
    This paper focuses on the challenges for making governance assessments nationally owned, which is a requirement under the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness. The author says that making governance assessments nationally-owned does not necessarily imply that government controls them or that they become unmanageable instruments trying to cater for every stakeholder group.
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    E-Government and local good governance: a pilot project in Fez, Morocco

    Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2008
    This paper presents the results of a e-government project implemented for the transformation of local governance, in Morocco. The technology implementation and deployment project is aimed at transforming an archaic municipal service delivery system. The study assess the effects and outcomes of this e-government installation on good governance.
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    Governance and state delivery in Southern Africa

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
    This document is composed of three papers: the contributions on Namibia and Botswana look at the extent to which these countries are able to set standards in terms of well functioning democracies; the paper on Zimbabwe argues that the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) should be enforced as a way out of the current impasse.
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    Assessing and analysing governance in India: evidence from a new survey

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    This paper presents the methodology and findings of a comprehensive governance assessment survey conducted in India as part of the World Governance Survey (WGS) project.
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    Corruption and governance measurement tools in Latin American countries

    Transparency International, 2006
    This study identifies and presents the international, national and local tools that measure corruption and good governance in Latin America.
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    Rapid assessment report on governance indicators sources and use in the Philippines

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2009
    This report presents the results of a survey involving policy/decision makers in Philippines to assess the extent to which governance indicators are being used and whether there are differences on how sources are applied at various levels of government.Specifically, it aims to rapidly assess the use of governance indicators in the following areas:
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    Popular attitudes to democracy in Ghana

    Afrobarometer, 2008
    This study shows that popular support for and satisfaction with democracy in Ghana has been high and trending upwards since 2002.
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    Democracy’s quality and breakdown: new lessons from Thailand

    Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, 2007
    This paper assesses democracy’s quality with reference to Thailand under the recent Thai Rak Thai government. It enumerates some of the conceptual difficulties that arise in these types of assessment exercises and discusses lessons that can be drawn from Thailand. The analysis is based on a framework that involves electoral mandates, policy responsiveness, and accountability

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