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  • Organisation

    Localis (http://localis.org.uk/)

    Localis is an independent think-tank based in Westminster, dedicated to issues related to local government and localism.
  • Document

    Mozambique democracy and political participation

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2009
    The quality of governance is a major determinant for the success or failure of nations. This report uses data from interviews and literature reviews to examine the health of Mozambique’s democracy and the quality of political participation in the country. Its aim is to contribute to consolidating democracy and strengthening political participation.
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    For good measure: devolving accountability for performance and assessment to local areas

    Localis, 2010
    This report is a contribution to the debate on the future of local government performance and assessment. In it the author outlines the possibility of reducing the burden of inspection on councils, while simultaneously increasing local accountability and the level of sector-led assistance and support.
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    Empowering Maasai women in Tanzania

    2010
    Maasai women are among the poorest and most marginalised groups in Tanzanian society. A local women-led organisation – the Pastoral Women’s Council – works to improve the lives of Maasai pastoralist women and children by increasing their access to social services and economic empowerment.
  • Organisation

    Strategic Foresight Group

    Strategic Foresight Group seeks to undertake forward-looking research in geopolitical, economic, technological and societal changes. Their research examines future trends and discontinuities in s
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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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    A new phase in postwar reconstruction

    Tiri, 2009
    In nations emerging from war, the immediate postwar period rarely lives up to the hopes and expectations of the country’s citizens or the international community. An upsurge in corruption and a lack of accountability, which frequently become entrenched during this time, can erode trust in democracy and its institutions, thereby eating away at the legitimacy of the postwar state.
  • Organisation

    Tiri

    Tiri is an independent non-governmental organisation that works with governments, business and civil society in an attempt to find practical solutions to making integrity work.
  • Document

    Evidence and rights based planning and support tool for SRHR /HIV-prevention interventions for young people

    World Population Fund, 2009
    Worldwide, extensive experience, evidence and information is available showing what works and what does not when implementing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This tool attempts to document the most importance evidence, in a way that is useful to organisations with limited time and resources, working in the day to day practice of SHRH education for young people.
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    Guidelines to participatory innovation development

    Promoting Local Innovation, 2006
    The Guidelines to Participatory Innovation Development (PID), as a resource manual, is an attempt made by Practical Action Nepal under PROLINNOVA Nepal Programme from which relevant practical mechanisms can be derived to render existing and conventional projects FARMER-LED.

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