Consolidating democratic governance in the SADC region

Name of Organization: 
Electoral Institute of South Africa (EISA)
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
Geographical Scope: 
Regions:
Country:
Purpose: 
The goals of the Programme are:
 
  1. to advance democratic consolidation in Southern Africa in support of NEPAD with an independent, objective and scientifically sound analysis by regional experts focusing on the state of democratic development and inform direction on the way forward.
  2. to strengthen the mechanism for qualitative and quantitative data collection for the purpose of formulationg criteria for evaluating democratic consolidation within SADC.
Area of Governance : 
Civil Society
Democracy
Economic Governance
Local Governance and Decentralization
Website of initiative: 
http://www.eisa.org.za
Cost (specify currency): 
1 000 000 EUR
Funding sources: 
SIDA
Source of Data: 
Using a combination of own and existing data
Type of Data Collection: 
Administrative Data
Aggregation of multiple indicators using various d...
Focus groups
In depth interviews
Panel of experts
Performance assessment / Desk studies
Secondary sources
Measurement Methods / Tools Generated or Used : 
  1. Representation and accountability
  2. Citizens participatio
  3. Local governance
  4. Economic governance
List of Indicators: 
This programme will provide an objective and independent analysis of the state of democracy in each of the SADC countries across 10 distinct, but cross-cutting, governance indicators. These include:
  1. economic governance
  2. corruption
  3. parliament
  4. national budgeting
  5. political parties
  6. judiciary elections
  7. local government
  8. civil society
  9. conflict management - with a focus specifically on parliament.
 
By applying indicators that measure the legitimisation and institutionalisation of democratic practises over time, and combining these measurements with the articulation and application of democratic values by political leadership, the Institute will construct a basic foundation for examining democratic good governance and the human rights culture.
Main Users: 
Civil society
Donor agencies
International agencies
Media
Policy makers
Researchers