Africa round-up

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Global Integrity, an award-winning international non-profit organization dedicated to tracking governance and corruption trends around the world, is seeking interested journalists, researchers, social scientists, and other experts with a background in governance and corruption issues to prepare the Global Integrity Report: 2010.  

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The newsletter of the Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN). Facilitated by Transparency International, ACRN is a collaborative, member-driven network which seeks to stimulate peer learning and innovative research.
This issue of ACRN News contains an in-depth look at the state of research in Corruption and Humanitarian Aid. It also features the latest offerings in corruption research from a wide range of sources, updates on interesting research projects, jobs, events, funding opportunities, and more.   
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How are governance indicators actually used to strengthen democratic governance at the country level? A research consortium of African think tanks is now set to explore this question. Looking at Ghana, Mozambique and Rwanda, the consortium will explore specific cases of how governance indicators and evidence are used to influence policy. It is expected that answers will provide guidance to national stakeholders and donors alike on how best to strengthen national capacity for assessing governance reforms.

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Shaazka Beyerle ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), a Senior Advisor with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), seeks your input. She is conducting an international research/book project to document and study such civic initiatives, in order to identify general lessons learned and good practices. Corruption may be the sole focus, or it may be linked to poverty, budgets/spending, freedom of information, state service provision, governance, democracy, organized crime, violence, human rights, environmental destruction, or other concerns. The focus is on what people–organized together, exerting their collective power–are doing to fight corruption either at the local or national levels. The project is examining the skills, strategies, objectives, and demands of nonviolent civic campaigns and movements, rather than the phenomenon of corruption itself, or the conditions under which it occurs. This project is made possible through a grant from the United States Institute of Peace and support from ICNC. Please note, this is not a call for proposals, papers or researchers.

For complete project information and links to related work by Ms. Beyerle, click on the below links and see the attached document "Call for Cases":

·          http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/comment/reply/5378
·          http://www.13iacc.org/en/IACC_Workshops/Workshop_3.1

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Cape Town (South Africa), would like to invite you to attend a public seminar entitled, Corruption and Governance in the DRC on Monday 8 March 2010. Download the pdf for more details.

New report shows strengthening governance is key for achieving education goals in seven countries

Berlin, 16 February, 2010 - Transparency International (TI), the global leader in the fight against corruption, will release Africa Education Watch: Good Governance Lessons for Primary Education, a new report on education in seven African countries on 23 February.

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The idea that China is only involved in Africa to seek raw materials - oil in particular - is just one of the many common myths circulating in the West which are shattered in this fascinating and comprehensive guide to China's growing influence in Africa.

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Download the fifth issue of the Climate Chronicle  - the COP15!

The newspaper is published by ISS (Corruption & Governance Programme),
Transnational Institute -Amsterdam and Earthlife Africa- Joburg and will
come out every second day for the duration of the summit in Copenhagen,.

*Please feel free to distribute as widely as possible.*
Articles may be re-used with permission from editors.

Download the forth issue of the Climate Chronicle  - the COP15!

The newspaper is published by ISS (Corruption & Governance Programme),
Transnational Institute -Amsterdam and Earthlife Africa- Joburg and will
come out every second day for the duration of the summit in Copenhagen,.

*Please feel free to distribute as widely as possible.*
Articles may be re-used with permission from editors.

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