Boris Divjak started as Director of our U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre in September. He wants to reach even more practitioners from the development community.

This article provides a conceptual framework and points out the key elements for creating enabling environments for adolescent sexual and reproductive ...

This report is part of a series of four reports resulting from a study commissioned by the Evaluation Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in December ...

A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing ...

In 1997, Ireland Aid (IA) established a Human Rights and Democratisation (HRD) scheme in order to assist projects outside IA's programme countries. Its ...

'Good governance' is no longer the catch word in the international donor community. The focus is now on 'good fit' or 'good enough governance' - on which ...

This report investigates child marriage in Algadaref State, located in Sudan’s eastern region. Child marriage is a human rights violation affecting ...

While it is generally accepted that states may regulate the activities of religious communities in the interests of social order and public harmony, how ...

The traditional native justice system in Darfur has an advantage over the modern state judicial one; it has proved its relevance for effectively managing ...

In his new book, senior researcher Roberto Gargarella argues that many of the problems currently attributed to modern constitutional democracies, are not unfortunate "distortions" of a properly organized institutional design, but rather foreseeable effects of that framework.

The international donor community has been trying to promote democratic systems of governance in developing countries. Is progress being made?

CMI senior researcher Siri Lange: "Who are to represent local communities in land disputes with mining companies? Pastoralists and land rights under the new mining code in Tanzania"

Public services are essential for development. However, their provision varies greatly across communities within developing countries. Although local ...

Norway has provided financial support to the Blue Diamond Society (BDS) since 2007.  The Norwegian Embassy (in the current phase) provides support ...

The Islamist government in Sudan deter women from divorce in court insisting they are preserving the cornerstone of the Islamic nation, the Muslim family. ...

Many communities in Mozambique find themselves in the rural-urban interface, either by being small towns or rural areas in the vicinity of cities. There ...

The review considered whether NDN activities have contributed to improved ethnic relations and to sustainable peace and reconciliation in the Western ...

Fisheries in the South Africa Development Community freshwaters are found to function as an economic buffer and as a safety valve for thousands of people ...

Access to education has been one of the main priorities for Afghan authorities and the international community for the past 14 years, but despite formidable investments in the country’s educational sector, many Afghan children leave school without being able to read or write. What has gone wrong?

the workshop will examine why Lebanon becomes trapped in externally driven cycles of regional and international political conflict and what the international community can do to break the cycle of violence.