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Access to information is widely recognized as a cornerstone of good governance and an important anti-corruption tool. Almost 100 countries, including 10 in Africa, have national laws or decrees that recognize the public’s right to access information...
Aisha Ibrahim is the Director of the Gender Research and Documentation Centre at Fourah Bay College of the University of Sierra Leone. In 2009-2010, she was the Helleiner Visiting Research Fellow at The North-South Institute, an IDRC-funded...
When you hear the word “Democracy”, what is the next word that comes to mind? Maybe “Elections” or “Freedom”. Maybe “Equality” or “Human Rights”. Or maybe “Peace”. Indeed, most countries that we consider strong democracies – Canada, Sweden, New...
Guatemala is facing an increasing number of land invasions and seizures by Indigenous farmers frustrated by the slow pace of land reform promised in the 1996 Peace Accords. For example, in April 2002, hundreds of landless farmers occupied 14 strips...
In the mid-1970s, a young doctoral student named Donald Ray was studying rural settlement schemes in Zambia. "All of a sudden, one of the schemes ground to a halt when the local chief showed up and told them to stop. He controlled the land and...
When Jean Daudelin assembled a research team to examine the impact of agrarian policies on conflict or peace, he imagined that one of the results might be a kind of checklist — or similar diagnostic tool — to help international development agencies...
This book describes and analyzes protracted conflicts in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. In doing so, it emphasizes obstacles to peace rather than root causes of conflict. Case studies are presented from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the...
With governance high on the agenda in Africa, many governments are using information and communications technologies (ICTs) to develop ways in which they deliver services to citizens. E-governance has the potential to enable local governments to...
“Corruption underdevelops a country. […] It cripples the whole machinery of government and society,” says Justice Mary Ang’awa of Kenya’s High Court. “The money stolen during the 1990s was enough to educate all Kenyan primary school-aged children...
"Poor," "destitute": two terms often used to describe African countries. However, in reality,"…they abound in incredible wealth," says Bonnie Campbell, Director of the Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en...
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