Our Resource Guide on Governance issues concentrates on research relating to democratic governance, fragile states, institutional development, justice, good governance, public sector & service delivery and urban governance.
- Towards democratic policing of the 2013 general elections in Kenya
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Kenya's 2007 elections saw the country's worst election-related violence and resulted in sharp criticism of the police. In light of lessons from previous elections, this Policy Brief presents arguments for the adoption of guidelines for policing the March 2013 elections. It offers recommendations for measures that aim to enhance a democratic approach to policing the elections, in consideraton of the present challenge of low levels of public confidence in the police and the demands of the Constitution and other laws for police accountability and civilian oversight. The brief argues that the era of secretive, hostile and unaccountable policing is in the past and that the onus is now on the National Police Service to bring the institution in step with the demands of contemporary democratic policing.
Latest Documents
- How can Kenya move forward after the 2013 elections?
- International Crisis Group, 2013
- Kenyan democracy was severely tested in the lead-up to, during and after the 4 March 2013 elections. On 9 March, following a tense but relatively peaceful election, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declared J...
- Intercultural Health Policies in Latin America
- S. Ruiz Cervantes / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Historically, indigenous peoples’ access to health services in Latin America has been limited due to a variety of social, economic and cultural factors. The misunderstanding of indigenous peoples’ world view and their defi...
- Doing good by doing well? Statoil in Sub-Saharan Africa
- P. W. Skedsmo 2013
- This report, commissioned by Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), examines Statoil’s exploration and production activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular how Statoil understands and acts in order to develop its social license to ope...
- Unbundling Land Administrative Reform: Demand for Second Stage Land Certification in Ethiopia
- S. Bezu / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013
- Ethiopia has implemented one of the largest, fastest and cheapest land registration and certification reforms in Africa. While there have been evidences of positive impacts of this land reform in terms of increased investment, land pr...
- Asian development outlook 2013: Asia’s energy challenge
- Asian Development Bank, 2013
- The Asian Development Outlook 2013 provides a comprehensive economic analysis at both regional- and country-levels. It begins by outlining the economic status of the region before examining the goals, challenges and strategies of stak...
- Study reviewing the comprehensiveness of REDD+ readiness proposals
- L. Goers Williams / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013
- The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Readiness Fund and the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) are supporting capacity building efforts in preparation fro...
- Violence unsettles Tunisia’s democratic transition
- D. Ottaway / Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2013
- Tunisia’s transition to democracy, widely regarded as the most successful to emerge from the five uprisings that shook the Arab world in 2011, is being seriously threatened by violence in the wake of a prominent leftist politicia...
- Living with the Middle East’s old-new security paradigm
- R. Youngs / Fride, 2013
- Attention has gradually turned to the geopolitical implications of the Arab spring. It is broadly recognised that ongoing processes of change in the Middle East and North Africa are not just about domestic level political reform but a...
- Does election monitoring reduce election-related violence?
- Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
- This report addresses the links between election monitoring, voter education and election-related violence. It finds little generalisable evidence to show that election monitoring or voter education consistently lead to a reduction in...
- Putting children at the heart of disaster risk reduction
- 2013
- This issue promotes a child-centered disaster risk reduction (DRR) approach in India in order to reduce disaster risk and climate change impact on their lives and development. The content considers: (i) child centered DRR means puttin...
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