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    Trends in electoral violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

    United States Institute of Peace, 2010
    In Africa, conflict and tension during elections are common occurrences - many of these new democracies find it difficult to manage political opposition. The management of the tensions can determine whether an election proceeds peacefully versus one that degenerates into violence.
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    Citizens’ Voice and Accountability: Understanding what works and doesn’t work in donor approaches

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    Quality of governance is one of the major factors affecting development prospects of poor countries. Citizen’s Voice and government accountability (CV&A) are important facets of governance within which donors have identified participation, inclusion and transparency as key issues of international development.
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    Governance indicators: where are we, where should we be going?

    World Bank, 2010
    Governance is a centuries old concept. Scholars, policymakers, aid donors and recipients are aware of the importance of good governance for development. There is an interest in finding more refined and policy-relevant governance indicators.
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    Survey of donor approaches to governance assessment

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    Bilateral and multilateral development agencies have engaged intensively in assessing governance over the last decade. This survey of donor approaches to governance assessments was produced in order to explore opportunities for increased harmonization and alignment in this area.
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    The state of reform in the Arab World 2009-2010: The Arab Democracy Index

    The Arab Reform Initiative, 2010
    This report seeks to influence the process of democratic transition by providing an index that allows advocates of democracy in the Arab world to monitor the evolution of this process. It could also serve as an important advocacy learning tool for citizens who wish to hold leaders to account and participate in decision making.  Findings include:
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    Donor approaches to governance assessments: guiding principes for enhanced impact, usage and harmonisation

    Governance and development, OECD-DAC, 2010
    This guide to donor governance assessment is aimed at governance specialists in donor agencies working on assessments and donor agency staff working in other sectors who encounter the realities of governance in their every day work.
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    Aid and domestic accountability

    OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines, 2010
    States’ accountability to citizens is a key issue for good governance and development. This paper discusses how donors in partnership with developing countries should act to strengthen domestic accountability. It explains what domestic accountability is and how aid can shape it by building the capacity of key accountability institutions.
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    Open Budget Index 2008

    International Budget Partnership, 2008
    The Open Budget Survey seeks to provide government officials, legislators, development practitioners, civil society organizations, journalists, and researchers with an independent, comparative measure of government budget transparency in 85 countries around the world.
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    Democratic governance, citizenship, and legal identity

    Sustainable Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank, 2009
    Legal identity is about being a citizen and one’s sense of belonging and ability to exercise their rights and obligations. This working paper presents new empirical findings on the problem of under-registration in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region and discusses the emerging academic concepts and project development.
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    Young democracies in the balance: lessons for the international community

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2008
    In the last few years democracy promotion has gone high up on the agenda of the international community and aid agencies. It has been observed that countries like Thailand, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Russia are going backwards in terms of democracy leading to concerns about the viability of this regime type in the developing world.

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