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Government Responsiveness: a think-piece for the Making All Voices Count programme
Making All Voices Count, 2014When citizens exercise voice, what is it that makes their voices count, or not count? If citizens’ voices count, governments are being responsive. In the past fifteen years many development and social change programmes have sought to make or strengthen the connections between citizens exerting voice and governments responding to their voices.DocumentOn speaking, mediation, representation and listening: a think-piece for the Making All Voices Count programme
Making All Voices Count, 2014Making All Voices Count is a global initiative that supports innovation, scaling, and research to deepen existing innovations and help harness new technologies to enable citizen engagement and government responsiveness.DocumentFostering new ideas for social inclusion and accountable responsive governance: a think-piece for the Making All Voices Count programme
Making All Voices Count, 2014The Making All Voices Count programme aims to foster and support new ideas to improve governance and achieve greater social justice. Key to Making All Voices Count’s approach to this challenge is to support innovation through a focus on brokering knowledge and new relationships, building evidence for practice, and learning.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, sevenDocumentConsolidating the African governance architecture
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014Collaboration and co-ordination among African Union (AU) and Regional Economic Community (REC) organs and institutions with the mandate to strengthen governance, human rights and democracy have been ad hoc and unpredictable. The results have been inefficiency, ineffectiveness, and duplication of efforts and resources.DocumentThe 2013 elections in Kenya and Zimbabwe: lessons for Africa and beyond
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014The 2013 elections in Kenya and Zimbabwe took place in the context of both optimism and fear. Held under new constitutional dispensationsDocumentPan-Africanism, the African Peer Review Mechanism and the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance: what does the future hold?
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014Since Africa’s independence 50 years ago, its democratisation momentum has been marked by both progress and reversals. With Africa’s independence in the late 1950s/early 1960s and up to the late 1980s/early 1990s, the democracy project was not at the top of the national, regional or continental agendas of nation-building, or regionalDocumentBrazil’s rise: seeking influence on gobal governance
Brookings Institution, 2014Brazil stands at a crossroads in its road to major power status. It can either continue its ascent, or can remain a middle power, albeit a critical one, within the existing international status quo. A major power is characterized by more than size, population, and economic achievement. It is distinguished by its intentions regarding its role in the international system.Pages