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  Provincial governance structures in Afghanistan: from confusion to vision?

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006

  This briefing paper addresses key issues in provincial governance, makes recommendations for making provincial structures more effective and argues for consideration of the overall subnational governance framework in which these structures will operate.The paper argues that the following questions need to be considered:what are the roles, resources, and responsibilities of different ins
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  An overview of the Ghana Police Service

  SSRonline, 2006

  This is a broad-based study that seeks to understand the structural and developmental processes that have taken place in the Ghana Police Service (GPS) since colonial times.The paper discusses various aspects of the GPS including:history, origins and developmentstructural developments and growthlegislative and constitutional instrumentsvarious reports and inquiries on the Se
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  Combating torture: a manual for action

  Amnesty International, 2006

  This manual describes the ideas, the techniques, the achievements, the standards of governmental behaviour and the means of implementing those standards that have emerged from the efforts of anti-torture activists around the world over the past 25 years and more. The manual covers: Chapter 1: the development and principal achievements of the fight against torture since the Second
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  Because they have the guns . . . I'm left with nothing: the price of continuing impunity in Côte d’Ivoire

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  This report describes human rights abuses against civilians by state security forces, militia forces and by the New Forces during the period of November 2005 to March 2006, and serves to illustrate the human cost of the failure to address impunity and lawlessness in Côte d’Ivoire.The report points out that impunity has taken firm root on Ivorian soil.
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  Backgrounder: parliamentary committees on defence and security

  Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2006

  This backgrounder reviews the composition, function and purpose of various Parliamentary Committees on Defence and Security in a variety of countries. This brief highlights the these committees as and example of security sector governance and reform by outlining their mandate, powers, requirements for efficiency, organization, division of labour, as well as relevant examples.
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  Destroy and profit: wars, disasters and corporations

  Focus on the Global South, 2006

  This publication addresses some of the key issues and challenges that accompany post war and post disaster reconstruction programmes.
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  Service delivery environments: the case of Nepal

  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2004

  This DFID study examines the challenge of maintaining services for poor people in conflict-affected areas of Nepal. The report describes the different approaches development agencies have taken to supporting service delivery and draws attention to key issues that should be considered for future support.
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  The Human Security Framework and National Human Development Reports: a review of experiences and current debates

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006

  This paper identifies some interesting and useful applications of the Human Security Framework.
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  Desentralisation in conflict and post-conflict situations

  Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2005

  This paper reviews the literature on decentralization in multiethnic states with the objective of exploring key issues in the literature, identifying research gaps and suggesting policy recommendations for Norwegian development policy. Overall, the review demonstrates that many of the promises of decentralization have not been met or documented, or the results have been mixed.
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  The people shall govern: a research report on public participation in policy processes

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006

  This research paper critically investigates some of South Africa’s post-apartheid policy-making processes, in order to assess the extent to which ordinary citizens have been empowered to understand policies and articulate their opinions, needs and aspirations in relation to these policies.

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