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    Pre-trial detention in Malawi: understanding caseflow management and conditions of incarceration

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2011
    Like elsewhere in Africa, the excessive and extended use of pre-trial detention in Malawi is symptomatic of failings in the criminal justice systems relating to the effective and efficient management of case flow.
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    Pre-trial detention in Zambia: understanding caseflow management and conditions of incarceration

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2011
    Like elsewhere in Africa, the excessive and extended use of pre-trial detention in Zambia is symptomatic of failings in the criminal justice systems relating to the effective and efficient management of case flow.
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    Assessment of crime and violence in Mozambique and recommendations for violence prevention and reduction

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012
    Mozambique 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.
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    Mainstreaming anti-corruption initiatives: development of a water sector strategy in Mozambique

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014
    Sector 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.
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    Lesotho political participation and democracy

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    After the introduction of the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral system in 2002, however, Lesotho has experienced unprecedented levels of political stability. The country has attained a remarkable and peaceful alternation of power and the establishment of a democratically elected coalition government – a rarity not only in Lesotho, but also on the African continent as a whole.
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    Lesotho justice sector and the rule of law

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    The justice sector and the rule of law in Lesotho are critical to the attainment of the country’s development goals. However, the contribution that the justice sector and the rule of law can make in practice depends on the legitimacy, effectiveness and efficiency of the norms, mechanisms and processes involved in the delivery of justice and in promotion of the rule of law.
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    Myths and mining: the reality of resource governance in Africa

    Southern African Resource Watch, 2014
    In Africa, mining activities are undertaken by private foreign entities, which pay taxes to the state. However, mining activities are not contributing as much as they should to national economies. Despite the increase in productivity and profits, the real benefits of mining have yet to be felt by the majority of the people, especially mining communities.
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    Southern African Editors’ Forum: SAEF report on observation of media conduct during the 2014 Malawi tripartite elections

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2014
    A seven-person Southern African Editors’ Forum (SAEF) mission comprising editors from Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia including the SAEF executive director based in Namibia, travelled to Malawi on 16-23 May 2014 to observe media conduct during that country’s 2014 tripartite elections.
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    Arguments for democratic decentralisation in Angola: If challenges remain the same, why delay the autarquias?

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014
    Is the Government once again going to delay local elections and democratic decentralisation? The 2010 Constitution renewed the Angolan state’s commitment to such a process. The current Government discourse emphasises “gradualism” and that “the conditions have to be prepared”.
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    Financial inclusion in Uganda

    CARE International Urban Poverty, 2014
    Since 2001 the Ugandan government has taken steps to double the number of adults accessing formal financial services from 28% in 2009 to 54% in 2013. However, 2.6 million adults remain excluded (15% of the adult population) and usage of insurance products in particular remains low, with only 2% of the adult population reporting use of them.

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