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    Regional organizations and incentives to improve governance: The APRM experience, with particular reference to Ghana

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is seen as the main tool for improving governance in Africa.
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    Corruption, anti-corruption efforts and aid: do donors have the right approach?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    Corruption is the abuse of public office or entrusted power for private gain. This paper looks at the linkages between good governance, new aid modalities and poverty reduction. It provides a review of the literature relating to corruption, anti-corruption efforts and aid with a focus on:
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    The state of local governance and public services in decentralized Indonesia

    SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2008
    Decentralization has been implemented in Indonesia since 2001. Many efforts to improve it have been supported by international and bilateral donor agencies. The Governance and Decentralization Survey (GDS) is one of the initiatives that aim to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the governance and decentralization policy.
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    Power, voice and rights: a turning point for gender equality in Asia and the Pacific

    United Nations Development Programme, 2010
    In every country across Asia and the Pacific, pervasive gender inequality remains a barrier to progress, justice and social stability, and deprives the region of a significant source of human potential. Inequality persists despite robust growth and progress, and cuts even deeper for poorer or otherwise excluded groups.
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    Using international law to assess elections

    Carter Center, 2010
    There is consensus that genuine elections are essential for democracy allowing citizens to hold their governments accountable. This article provides an overview of existing obligations for democratic elections in Public International Law (PIL), and links them to criteria for assessing electoral processes.
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    Review of progress in international and national mutual accountability and transparency on development cooperation

    The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2010
    One key thematic focus area for the UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) in assessment of trends in development cooperation is reinforcing mutual accountability (MA). This review focuses on the mechanisms and processes in which stakeholders hold one another mutually accountable for aid effectiveness.
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    Global program capacity development for democratic governance: Assessments and measurements, 2008-2011

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2010
    Democratic governance is central to human development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which provide an enabling environment for reducing poverty.
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    Women's political participation and influence in Sierra Leone

    Fride, 2009
    Gender relations in Sierra Leone are extremely unequal and Sierra Leonean women face high levels of exclusion, violence and poverty.
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    Democracy in Albania

    Fride, 2010
    Two decades after the transition from communism, democracy in Albania remains fragile. The elections held on 28th June 2009 were presented as a watershed moment for Albania’s European bid, but the politicisation of the vote count led the opposition to contest the results and to boycott the Parliament for six months.
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    Sustainable governance indicators 2009

    Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2009
    This is a code book to measure the need and capacity for reform using sustainable governance indicators in a given country. It breaks down the main indicators into status of democracy, economic and policy-specific performance, executive capacity and executive accountability and assigns them status indexes. Under each of these main indicators, are sub-indicators which are assigned with codes.

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