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African Women and Girls – Their say on their world post-2015
Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014The 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.OrganisationEQUALITY for Peace and Democracy (EPD)
EQUALITY for Peace and Democracy (EPD) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to empowering women and youth at the community and policy levels in Afghanistan.DocumentElections in Mozambique: A smooth journey, or a hurdle to skip?
Institute for Security Studies, 2014Mozambique’s fifth democratic election is due to take place in October 2014. Until June 2014, it appeared as if Renamo would escalate its armed resistance against Frelimo, the ruling party, because of alleged unfulfilled terms of the 1992 peace agreement.DocumentBeware of the echo: the impending return of demographic pressures in Egypt
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014For many years, Egypt experienced substantial demographic pressures on its education system and labour market. This paper discusses potential reasons for these increasing pressures, with a focus on the currently growing young adult population.DocumentChild Marriage in South Asia
Center for Food Safety, 2013Child marriage is a human rights crisis occurring on an alarming scale in South Asia. South Asia accounts for almost half of all child marriages that occur globally. Child marriage does not constitute a single rights violation; rather, every instance of it triggers a continuum of violations that continues throughout a girl’s life.DocumentIran’s subsidy reform from promise to disappointment
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014In December 2010, Iran implemented an ambitious subsidy reform program for energy; however, three years later, the program has stalled and energy prices are once again well below their global levels. The current paper reveals that two factors explain the failure of the program to continue after its successful implementation.DocumentGender Responsive Budgeting and Aid Effectiveness Knowledge Briefs
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2010This series investigated how gender responsive budgeting (GRB) tools and strategies had been used in the context of aid modalities, such as general budget support (GBS) and sector budget support (SBS). Research was carried out in ten countries: Cameroon, Ethiopia, India, Morocco, Nepal, Mozambique, Peru, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.DocumentElections and the risk of instability in Africa: supporting legitimate electoral processes
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014Whereas elections have become commonplace in Africa over the past 20 years, several recent examples have shown that they can also crystallise tensions and cause violence (as happened in Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire and Zimbabwe), and can fail to legitimise power.DocumentLessons from electoral management and processes in West Africa
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014A significant issue in the debate on constitutional and political reform in West Africa continues to be the improvement of governance to ensure electoral integrity and protect the electoral mandate through free and fair elections.DocumentSouth Africa’s implementation of the APRM: making a difference or going through the motions?
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014South Africa’s 2007 African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Country Review Report (CRR) identified numerous governance challenges. The country committed itself to eradicating these challenges through implementing a National Programme of Action (NPoA). However, sevenPages