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    Overcoming the Limits of Institutional Reform in Uganda

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2013
    This paper notes that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. However, it underlines that many of the reforms have been limited to these kinds of gains – producing new institutional forms that function poorly and yield limited impacts.
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    Rethinking spatial inequalities in development: the primacy of politics and power relations

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    This paper offers a political explanation to the problem of spatial inequality in developing countries, paying particular attention to the implications of patronage politics and inter-elite power relations for the spatial distribution of public goods.
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    The use of ICTs to express public outrage in Nigeria over child marriage

    Global Information Society Watch, 2013
    Is public opposition to child marriage in Nigeria increasing?
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    Adedeji at 80: moving Africa from rhetoric to Action: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
    This CCR policy brief is based on a high-level Millennium Symposium held by the Nigeria-based African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS), in December 2010 in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria.
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    Going in the wrong direction? Ugandans report declining government effectiveness

    Afrobarometer, 2015
    In the Round 5 Afrobarometer survey in Uganda, 74% of Ugandans said the country was headed in the wrong direction. This was a dramatic change from just one year earlier, when 28% said Uganda was headed in the wrong direction.
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    Women’s rights and political representation: past achievements and future challenges

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2014
    This paper summarises the main achievements and challenges for Afghan women’s participation in politics and their access to justice. It also presents the most important reflections amongst key stakeholders about possible ways forward, with the aim of facilitating further discussions in these areas.
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    Anti-corruption strategy: a civil society perspective

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    For the developing world, corruption has been termed as a substantial barrier in the way of prosperity. The endemic use of public offices for personal gains causes a blow to national kitty – leaving little budgetary space for provision of quality public service delivery. Corruption is not only responsible for siphoning off public money, but also for misallocation of limited resources.
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    Kenya: democracy and political participation

    2014
    This discussion paper provides a comprehensive review of the state of democracy and popular participation in Kenya. It presents a narrative of a nation’s ambition to journey into a new era of democratisation aided by a new constitution, which almost four years on, is yet to be fully implemented.
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    The 2014 general elections in Mozambique: analysis of fundamental questions

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2014
    This study seeks to bring together the various elements that outline the context for the 2014 general election in Mozambique. It highlights the process and historical context of the amendment of the electoral laws, marked by the further politicisation of the electoral bodies.
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    African Women and Girls – Their say on their world post-2015

    Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014
    The Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), has released a landmark publication that details the voices of African women and girls in the post Millennium Development Goals discussion. African women and girls at the Grassroots – their say on their world post 2015 is a representation of African women’s voices from the grassroots.

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