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    Improving governance and public financial management through budget support: the experience of the African Development Bank

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2010
    Budget support is seen as the instrument of choice for many donors and partners to help avoid aid proliferation and fragmentation, and the resultant transaction costs; increase the availability of resources for financing recurrent costs; foster greater national ownership in the development process; and in the use of official development assistance, strengthen public financial management (PFM) s
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    An upside down view of governance

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    Prescriptive donor aid practices have long caused consternation amongst development researchers and practitioners. The aid effectiveness agenda sought to instead empower recipient development governments by insisting that donors work through existing country systems and thus encourage ownership. However does the Paris Declaration et al go far enough?
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    Report on security sector reform in Latin America and the Caribbean

    La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), 2007
    The goal of this report is to contribute to an understanding of the political and institutional processes taking place in Latin America related to the security sector since the region's wide-scale return to democracy.
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    ICTs for Democracy: information and communication technologies for the enhancement of democracy – with a focus on empowerment

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2009
    Access to and the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) have been shown to have the potential to help bring about economic development, poverty reduction, and democratisation. This report examines the potential of ICTs for advancing democracy and empowerment.
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    Politics, institutions and participation in water governance

    Water Research Group, University of Bradford, 2006
    This paper presents discussion from the third seminar, held June 2005, focused on challenging the consensus of approaches around politics, institutions and participation in water governance. It presents this in relation to three dimensions of consensus in which issues of politics, institutions and participation were central, and critically affect water security:
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    The criminal justice system in Zambia. enhancing the delivery of security in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2009
    This paper reviews the Zambian criminal justice system and draws attention to the need for reforms in that will enhance human security. It notes that Zambia has made great progress since the re-establishment of a multiparty democracy since 2002 - but there are still serious gaps in its criminal justice law reforms.
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    Determinants of institutional quality in sub-Saharan African countries

    School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 2008
    There is a consensus that poor institutional quality is one of the main factors for economic stagnation of sub-Saharan African countries.
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    From land grab to win-win. Seizing the opportunities of international investments in agriculture.

    Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2009
    Foreign acquisitions of farm land in developing countries have become the focus of concern. Many observers consider them a new form of colonialism that threatens food security of the poor. However, investments could be good news if the objectives of land purchasers are reconciled with the investment needs of developing countries.
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    Lessons in effective citizen activism: the anti-third term campaign in Zambia

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005
    In 2001, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba tried to change the country’s constitution to allow him to run for a third term. However, a civil society-led campaign forced the President to abandon the plan.
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    Measuring ‘success’ in five African Anti-Corruption Commissions

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2005
    This paper suggests that the widespread lack of ‘success’ of anti-corruption commissions (ACCs) is intimately connected to how they are funded by donors and governments and what donors and governments expect of them. The findings here are based on the insights gained from country visits to Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

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