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Report | Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya and Corruption
Corruption, Economic Governance, Report, Academic/Think TankCorruption in the private sector is widespread and costs the economy greatly while undermining efforts to reduce the poverty rates in the country. In order for small and medium enterprises to grow, they need to put their incomes into business related transactions and not those that aren’t such as corruption. This report highlights persistent corruption pertaining to small and medium...
Development Effectiveness Review 2012 - African Development Bank
ReportThe Development Effectiveness Review (DER) is a series of publications reviewing the African Development Bank’s (AfDB or Bank) contribution to Africa’s development results. Beginning with the first Annual Development Effectiveness Review published in 2011, the DER series has promoted transparency and accountability to our member countries and stakeholders. It also helps us ensure that our...
Report | Madagascar - Mineral Resources Governance Project
Governance and MDG, ReportRatings for the Mineral Resources Governance Project for Madagascar were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was high, the Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also moderately satisfactory. There were two lessons learned: 1) High-level scientific oversight is key to ensuring the success of a complex geology...
Report | OGP: Guidelines for Assessing OGP Action Plans
Democracy, Report, Academic/Think TankThe Centre for Law and Democracy is today releasing a Report – Making the OGP Effective: Guidelines for Assessing OGP Action Plans – which presents nine guidelines for assessing Open Government Partnership (OGP) Participating States’ action plans. The development and implementation of action plans is central to the whole OGP project: they contain the concrete commitments made by Participating...
2012-IIAG-summary-report.
Africa, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Civil SocietyThis is the sixth year in which we have measured governance outcomes in Africa, looking at both country and regional performances across four major categories – Safety & Rule of Law, Participation & Human Rights, Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human Development – and 88 component indicators. Once again, the data point to some important findings that can assist leaders and citizens...
First Arab Watch Report:
Report, Civil SocietyArab governments are legally bound by the constitutions to respect basic economic and social rights, but they usually abandon their commitments in the practice as time goes by, according to the first Arab Watch Report, launched by civil society organizations of ten Middle East and North African countries. The Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) launched this first regional report on economic...
World e-Parliament Report 2012
Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe World e-Parliament Report 2012 documents the efforts of legislatures to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to support their constitutional functions. The Report is based on the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012 conducted by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament between February and May 2012, which is the third in a series of surveys that began in 2007. [...]
Freedom on the Net 2012
Report, Civil Society` This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching laws and practices relevant to the internet, testing the accessibility of select websites, and...
African Peer Review Mechanism Annual Report 2011
Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationIt is our pleasure to welcome readers and APRM Stakeholders to the 2011 Annual Report. 2011 was indeed a memorable year, in which the APRM recorded a number of sterling achievements in its mission to promote governance and socio-economic development in Africa.
Compliance Checklist
Corruption, Framework, Global IntegrityThe various tools, which make up the TI-Canada AAC, are mainly products of Transparency International, some created in concert with other international organisations and business. While there may be some overlap amongst the independently produced tools, each, in a whole or part, is of relevance to cooperation of any size. All serve to assist cooperation to assess, plan, act, monitor, report...