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  Engaging communities: evaluating social accountability in school feeding programmes

  Home Grown School Feeding, 2011

  This paper addresses the question of how implementers of Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) systems can create and operationalise feedback systems between communities, governments and external partners to ensure programmes are meeting communities’ needs.
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  Is tourism Haiti’s magic bullet: an empirical treatment of Haiti’s tourism potential

  Igarape Institute, 2013

  This study highlights some of the challenges facing tourism in Haiti. The paper notes that the Haitian government has elevated tourism to the top of its development agenda, yet prospects for success are uncertain.
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  Exploring alternative approaches for managing electoral injustice in Africa

  Institute for Security Studies, 2010

  African dictators have resisted the transition before succumbing to both internal and external pressures; however, the electoral process has often turned to warfare in many of the states, as it has sometimes been difficult to remove incumbents through the ballot box.
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  Who trusts others? Community and individual determinants of social capital in Bangladesh

  The Institute of Governance Studies, 2013

  Trust amongst people in a society is considered by many to facilitate long-term growth, educational attainment, democratic stability and subjective well-being. A low institutional trust environment can undermine inter-personal trust in the economy.
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  Supporting social accountability in the Middle East and North Africa: lessons learned from past political and economic transitions

  World Bank, 2011

  Social accountability (SA) is an approach to governance that involves citizens and civil society organisations (CSOs) in public decision-making and in holding governments accountable for its actions. This note deems that SA is, in essence, an important feature of democratisation, and is therefore particularly relevant for countries in transition in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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  Report of the law commission on the review of the constitution [of Malawi]

  Sustainable Development Networking Programme, Malawi, 2007

  The Malawi Constitution was adopted in 1994 to operate provisionally for one year and was enacted into definitive force in 1995. The adoption of the Constitution followed the results of a referendum held in 1993 which were in favour of a multi-party system of Government.
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  Democratising regional integration in Southern Africa: SADC national committees as platforms for participatory policy-making

  Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa, 2009

  SADC National Committees (SNCs) are a statutory implementation organs of SADC (Southern African Development Community) for national input in the formulation of regional policies and the co-ordination and implementation of these programmes at national level. They are participatory multi-stakeholder policy-making and implementation platforms.
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  Advocacy in the age of authoritarianism: adjustments of all sorts in Egypt

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009

  The focus of this paper is on the top-down introduction of advocacy in the Egyptian context in the 1990s as part of the bid to promote democratisation in the Arab world. The paper argues that in authoritarian contexts, participatory advocacy is contrary to the inhibitive policy environment and the nature of the political culture in place.
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  Controlling corruption: auditing versus community participation

  Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, 2008

  What is the best way to control and measure corruption? This paper outlines a method devised by the author which measures corruption and uses it to evaluate alternative strategies to reduce corruption on an Indonesian road-building project. Two types of strategies were tried: encouraging community participation and increasing the probability of audits.
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  Speaking out: how the voices of poor people are shaping the future

  Oxfam, 2009

  This paper from Oxfam focuses on how the "right to be heard" concept can strengthen public participation  in policy making and accountability. Recommendations for those upporting poor and marginalised people to lobby for changes in their situation include:

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