This report highlights the importance of separating organised crime from politics while enhancing legitimate governance and service delivery. Based on a literature review and six country case studies, it offers detailed recommendations in five core areas: protecting the political process; modernising and strengthening law enforcement and the judiciary; supporting ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Financing Disaster Risk Reduction: A 20-year story of international aid
This report analyses financing for Disaster Risk Reduction over the past 20 years. It finds that overall volumes spent on disasters are a fraction of development aid, and within that the amount committed to reduce the risk of disasters is an even smaller proportion. Financing is heavily concentrated in a relatively small number of projects and in relatively few countries, with ...» more
The impact of adult civic education programmes in developing democracies
This paper, based on four USAID-sponsored impact evaluations conducted since the late 1990s, finds that civic education programmes can have meaningful and relatively long-lasting effects in increasing political information and feelings of empowerment, and in mobilising individuals to engage in political participation. But they are much less likely to affect more ‘deep-seated’ ...» more
New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict
This report explores the ways in which new technologies can help international actors, governments, and civil society organisations to more effectively prevent violence and conflict. It examines the contributions that cell phones, social media, crowdsourcing, crisis mapping, blogging, and big data analytics can make to short-term efforts to forestall crises and to long-term ...» more
Localizing Development: Does Participation Work?
Can participation be induced through the type of large-scale government and donor-funded participatory programs that have become a recurrent theme of development policy? This report reviews almost 500 studies on participatory development and decentralisation. Three key lessons emerge from distilling the evidence and thinking about the broader challenges in inducing ...» more