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Searching with a thematic focus on Governance, Participation in Kenya

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    Do more empowered citizens make more accountable states? Power and legitimacy in legal empowerment initiatives in Kenya and South Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    Many marginalised groups face difficulties in accessing essential services, such as housing, health care and water – even though their rights to these services are enshrined in international and often in national laws.
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    Citizen-generated data and sustainable development: evidence from case studies in Kenya and Uganda

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    In both Kenya and Uganda, the development data and information landscape has changed significantly over recent years. Officials, civil society and the private sector are stepping up efforts to harness existing and new data sources to support decision-making and accountability for sustainable development.
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    Pathways to accountability from the margins: reflections on participatory video practice

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    Two of the central challenges in building accountability for marginalised people are how to reach and meaningfully involve the most excluded, and how to establish the kinds of relationships that mean they can achieve, influence and expect government responsiveness.
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    Norway’s municipal international cooperation - results achieved and lessons learnt

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2015
    Municipal International Cooperation (1997-2014) was a programme involving municipalities in Norway and the Global South. It was managed by the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This report sums up results and identifies lessons to be learnt for a possible future scheme.
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    Kenya: democracy and political participation

    2014
    This discussion paper provides a comprehensive review of the state of democracy and popular participation in Kenya. It presents a narrative of a nation’s ambition to journey into a new era of democratisation aided by a new constitution, which almost four years on, is yet to be fully implemented.
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    Exploring alternative approaches for managing electoral injustice in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    African dictators have resisted the transition before succumbing to both internal and external pressures; however, the electoral process has often turned to warfare in many of the states, as it has sometimes been difficult to remove incumbents through the ballot box.
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    Do think tanks benefit from APRM work? Kenya's experience

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    When Kenya volunteered to be among the first to take part in the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), hopes and expectations were high. But for at least one local academic research institute, committed to play an important role, the process was beset by problems and challenges not of its own making.
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    State–civil society relations: the potential contribution of the African Peer Review Mechanism

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is Africa’s home-grown governance promotion and monitoring tool. It has made one of its priorities the involvement of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the assessment of national initiatives.
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    Statelessness and the benefits of citizenship: a comparative study

    Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2009
    Sixty years after the international community embedded the right to nationality in the human rights architecture, approximately twelve million people around the world remain stateless. What are the hurdles to overcoming statelessness and how has citizenship made a qualitative difference in the lives of formerly excluded groups?
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    Community-based worker systems: guidelines for practitioners

    The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2007
    Many communities in Africa are largely dependent on services provided by local people rather than by external agencies, including government. Such services include traditional birth attendants, traditional healers, farmer to farmer extension, home-based carers, paralegals and water pump attendants. [adapted from author]

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