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    Decentralized climate change responses in Uganda: climate change adaptation lacks local government funding

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2015
    Local governments in Uganda are the most appropriate level for implementing national climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. They provide the best institutional interface between local people’s aspiration and international investments, national policies and civil society initiatives.
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    A place for subnational governments at the international climate negotiating table

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    It can be difficult for subnational governments and cities to acquire a place at the negotiating table for international climate events, such as UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) gatherings. This is despite the fact that subnational governments are often best placed to implement the outcomes of climate change negotiations.
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    Nigeria’s foreign policy before Buhari: global expectations amid domestic and regional challenges

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    A country well-endowed in terms of population, natural resources andgeographic size, Nigeria’s post-independence foreign policy has been
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    Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for South-South and Triangular Development Cooperation: lessons from Brazil for the 2030 agenda

    United Nations Development Programme, 2016
    In the past 15 years, South-South development cooperation (SSDC)1 and triangular development cooperation (TrC) have been growing in prominence as a result of an increase in resources, geographical reach and
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    Brazilian triangular cooperation in social protection: contribution to the 2030 Agenda

    United Nations Development Programme, 2016
    International organizations have played a crucial role in this process by supporting the diffusion and transfer of social protection policies. However, the role of South-South Cooperation partners cannot be underestimated. Brazil’s development trajectory in the last decade has drawn the world’s attention to the country’s social protection and food and nutritional security policies.
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    Fragile States Index 2016

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2016
    Since its inception in 2005, the annual index produced by the Washington DC-based Fund for Peace has ranked 178 countries based on measures of their stability and the pressures they face.
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    Indirect colonial rule and the political salience of ethnicity

    Afrobarometer, 2016
    Colonies can be roughly differentiated into directly ruled or “settler” colonies that often reproduced systems of governance used in Europe and were administered in a highly centralized and bureaucratic form, and indirectly ruled colonies that outsourced local governance to “traditional” indigenous authorities.
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    Do Africans still want democracy?

    Afrobarometer, 2016
    More than half of all Africans today live in functioning multi-party electoral democracies that are demonstrably freer than the military or one-party regimes that previously dominated the continent.
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    Changing elites, institutions and environmental governance

    Springerlink, 2016
    The topic of elites has always been controversial in Latin American social sciences. Elites have been studied indirectly as landowners, capitalists, business-leaders or politicians, and have also been approached directly using concepts and theory from elite studies.
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    Turkey in Somalia: shifting paradigms of aid

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    As the global development landscape continues to evolve, new and emerging actors – countries transitioning from being aid recipients to aid providers – are becoming increasingly visible on the global scene.

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