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Status of disability rights in Southern Africa
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012People living with disabilities (PWD) are the most marginalised people in a region where life is already difficult for the majority of the population due to severe poverty, lack of development and high unemployment. In all countries, the rights of PWD are not given any priority by their governments.DocumentCountry profiles report Southern Africa disability rights and Law School project
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012People living with disabilities (PWD) are the most marginalised people in a region where life is already difficult for the majority of the population due to severe poverty, lack of development and high unemployment. In all countries, the rights of PWD are not given any priority by their governments.DocumentAssessment of crime and violence in Mozambique and recommendations for violence prevention and reduction
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012Mozambique also suffers from country specific crime challenges. For example, levels are burglary and livestock theft are ranked highest in all of Africa with 13% and 19% of respondents respectively reporting victimisation.DocumentMainstreaming anti-corruption initiatives: development of a water sector strategy in Mozambique
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014Sector approaches to combating corruption have gained momentum in recent years, yet the strategic prioritization of sector anti-corruption initiatives is still the exception. The National Water Directorate in Mozambique is one of the few public sector departments in the world known to have allocated its own resources to developing a sector-specific anti-corruption strategy.DocumentToo poor to care?: the salience of aids in Africa
Afrobarometer, 2011Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of the world that is most severely affected by HIV/AIDS, yet surveys of attitudes to AIDS across African countries show that most people do not attach great importance to the issue. The current paper argues that the salience of AIDS is low in Africa because many people are too poor to consider the disease important.DocumentThe political participation of Africa’s youth: turnout, partisanship and protest
Afrobarometer, 2011The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilisation in Africa, but very little is known about the political participation of Africa’s youth. The current paper focuses on different modes of political participation among the youth living in Africa’s more democratic regimes.DocumentExploiting the poor: bureaucratic corruption and poverty in Africa
Afrobarometer, 2012Corruption is a major source of slow development in Africa. The current paper develops a model of the relationship between poverty and corruption, and utilises Afrobarometer survey data on 18 sub-Saharan African countries.DocumentThe uses of the Afrobarometer in policy planning, program design and evaluation
Afrobarometer, 2011Information on what the public wants has often been missing from the process of policy formulation in Africa. This discussion explores some specific ways in which Afrobarometer data can contribute to policy-making and implementation processes.DocumentWho says elections in Ghana are ‘free and fair’?
Afrobarometer, 2014Since 2000, elections in Ghana have been lauded by observers as being “free and fair”; however, the losing political party has consistently contested the election results.DocumentAfter a decade of growth in Africa, little change in poverty at the grassroots
Afrobarometer, 2013Afrobarometer data on lived poverty in Africa provide an important basis for testing assumptions about the effects of the continent’s recent economic growth on poverty reduction. The current paper indicates that Afrobarometer data from 34 countries reveal a disconnect between reported growth and the persistence of poverty among ordinary citizens.Pages