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Highlights this week

New key issues guide: E-government

Governments around the world have invested heavily in e-government, but can technology really improve the quality of democracy?

 Coping with sudden onset disasters: a livelihoods approach 

This toolkit helps assess the impact of disasters on the livelihoods of people, their capacity for recovery and increased resilience to future events.

Tackling a crisis: demobilisation in the DRC   

Years of instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo have seen many attempts at disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of the army and local militias. This paper explores the methods used.

Age of hope or anxiety? fear of crime in South Africa   

Crime is top of the public and political agenda in South Africa. This policy brief looks not at the actual levels of crime in the country but rather at the related but often-neglected social phenomenon of the fear of crime.

 

Latest from Eldis Community

Group: Development in Practice 

Group: ICT for democracy 

Group: Malawi group

Blog: Ranking liberal democracy

 

Latest jobs and announcements

Job: International Service seeks Communications/Organisational Development Specialist, Brazil

Call for Papers: Gender & Development journal - March 2009 issue on Climate Change

Call for papers: First AMANET Workshop on Advanced Health Research Ethics for investigators, 23 - 27 June 2008, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 

Event: One World Trust (UK) Presents Poverty and Human Rights as a Global Governance Challenge 

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