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  Can parliaments enhance the quality of democracy on the African continent? An analysis of institutional capacity and public perception

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2006

  Since the early 1990s, when many African countries resumed multi-party elections and democratic practices, legislative strengthening programmes have become an important part of international assistance. Parliaments are generally regarded as potential agents for democratic change but their actual role in enhancing the quality of democracy in Africa is far from clear.
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  Applying property rights theory to Africa: the consequences of formalizing informal land rights

  International Society for New Institutional Economics, 2008

  Economic efficiency requires secure property rights, which encourage people to invest their resources and protect their investment against expropriation. Ambiguity in the definition or enforcement of property rights leads to an increase in transaction cost and uncertainty and a decline in the overall economic efficiency.
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  ACCESS: victims' rights before the International Criminal Court

  Redress Trust, 2007

  ACCESS, the victims' rights bulletin, provides updated information on issues that concern victims' protection and legal rights before the International Criminal Court (ICC). Issue 9 of the bulletin covers the following topics:
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  East African integration: how can it contribute to East African development?

  Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda, 2007

  Since the formal launching of the new East African Community (EAC) in 2001, the pace of integration has been quickening. The process for a free trade area and customs union between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania began in January 2005, and negotiations to establish a common market between these three countries with the addition of Rwanda and Burundi, have also been initiated.
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  Realising rights for children - good practice in Eastern and Southern Africa

  African Child Policy Forum, 2007

  This is a regional examination of the extent of harmonisation of national laws relating to children under the umbrella of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This report reviews and analyses how far countries in Eastern and Southern African have gone in implementing the principles of the CRC, and how well they have built the recognition of children's rights into their legal systems.
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  UNDP and civil society organisations: a toolkit for strengthening partnerships

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  This toolkit is aimed at providing practical guidance and essential information in forging partnerships with civil society organisations (CSOs).
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  Why are there so few black-owned firms in Africa? preliminary results from enterprise survey data

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2007

  Much of the growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade has come from extractive industries, rather than from private, entrepreneurial activity.
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  A comparative analysis of decentralisation in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

  DEGE Consult, Tanzania, 2004

  This report reviews and assesses the key lessons of the decentralisation reforms in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  Aid does raise economic growth in Africa – indirectly

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Despite receiving large amounts of aid, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a poor economic growth record. This has led some observers to conclude that aid to Africa has been ineffective. But this is not the case. Aid has contributed to growth in Africa, mainly by financing investment, which in turn contributes to growth.
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  Fast-tracking East African integration: assessing the feasibility of a political federation by 2010

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  The long history of collaboration between the three East African states of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, has been turbulent and has left both a positive and negative legacy. This legacy has a bearing on the contemporary dynamics of collaboration in several respects.

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