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    Distributing mining wealth to communities in Ghana: Addressing problems of elite capture and political corruption

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013
    In the context of a mining boom in Africa, a critical consideration is how governments use increased mineral wealth to foster development, particularly in rural communities where mining takes place.
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    Leaking projects: Corruption and local water management in Kyrgyzstan

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013
    Poor water infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet era led international donors to support investments in agricultural irrigation and potable freshwater systems. The financial investments made, however, did not always underpin improvements in local water delivery and the Kyrgyz Vice President once noted that “the lion’s share of the credit was stolen”.
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    Project Leaf and addressing corruption in REDD+

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013
    Project Leaf (Law Enforcement Assistance for Forests) was launched on 5 June, 2012 – on World Environment Day. It is an initiative to counter various aspects of forest crime, including corruption, illegal logging and timber trafficking.
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    Wildlife Management in Tanzania: State Control, Rent Seeking and Community Resistance

    Development and Change Journal, 2013
    Despite a decade of rhetoric on community conservation, current trends in Tanzania reflect a disturbing process of reconsolidation of state control over wildlife resources and increased rent-seeking behaviour, combined with dispossession of communities.
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    Low carbon growth plans: advancing good practice

    2009
    This working paper summarises output from Project Catalyst, an initiative of the ClimateWorks Foundation, aimed at providing analytical support for the UNFCCC negotiations on a post-Kyoto international climate agreement. It seeks to show how to spread best practice around the world effectively by learning from and building upon the experiences of first-generation low carbon growth plans (LCGPs).
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    Users' guide for measuring public administration performance

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    The proliferation of different public administration (PA) assessment tools has resulted in some confusion about which tools to use, how they should be applied and their weaknesses and strengths.
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    Users’ guide on measuring fragility

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2011
    Although the understanding of the security threats posed by fragile states is still highly hypothetical and merits further investigation, fragile states are often considered an ideal breeding ground for national and international terrorism, organised crime and armed conflict. It is therefore important to understand the causes and dynamics of fragile states.
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    Maximising the potential of UNCAC implementation: making use of the self-assessment checklist

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
    The UN Convention against Corruption offers countries a unique framework to strengthen their ability to prevent and combat corruption. The self-assessment checklist is one of the few available methods where reports are generated through the software and submitted electronically through collecting information about the measures that a state has already taken.
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    A user’s guide to measuring gender-sensitive basic service delivery

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    The delivery of gender-sensitive basic services for women is a prerequisite for development. However, the the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved unless and until women are able to contribute to and benefit from development on equal par with men.
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    UNDP practice note on democratic governance assessments

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    UNDP’s support for country-led democratic governance assessments is a key element of the organisation’s broader agenda on democratic governance to: foster inclusive participation, strengthen accountable and responsive governing institutions, and ground governance in international principles of human rights, gender equity and integrity.

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