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Climate Finance Shadow Report 2020
"International climate finance is vital to global cooperation on climate change…The prospect of climate-induced extreme weather risks compounding crises and poverty. Climate change could undo decades of progress in development and dramatically increase global inequalities. There is an urgent need for climate finance to help countries cope and adapt" (Carty, Kowalzig, and Zagema, 2020).
OECD: Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions
"It is the first empirical comparative study that analyses how representative deliberative processes (such as Citizens’ Assemblies and Juries) are being used for public decision making around the world.” … the OECD has identified twelve distinct models of deliberative processes, evaluated what a ‘successful’ process entails, developed good practice principles, explored routes to institutionalizing citizen deliberation" (OECD, 2020).
Evidence Based Policy Research Project 2020
“This research project was commissioned ‘to coax more evidence-based policy decisions by all tiers of Government by reviewing and rating 20 high profile government decisions against the Wiltshire business case criteria’” (Macdonald and Lesh, 2020).
2020 Index report
“The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) assesses governance performance in 54 African countries over” 10 years through a “dataset measuring African governance, assessing African countries on a whole spectrum of governance dimensions, from security to justice, to rights and economic opportunity, to health and environment” (Mo Ibrahim Foundation, 2020).
Seeking a New Relationship with Communities: How Local Elected Officials Want to Bridge Divides, Distrust, and Doubts
"The four key findings shared in this report show that many leaders are seeking a relationship with their community members, they worry about barriers to deeper community connection and about a diminished civic spirit, they are experimenting with new approaches to… deepen engagement, etc" (Miller and Taylor, 2020).
With the People: An Introduction to an Idea
"This Cousins Research Group Report… offers a strategy for bridging some of the divide separating the people of the United States from their government and from the country’s major institutions. It envisions a form of collaboration that would have institutions working with citizens, not just for them (David Matthews, 2020).
Kettering Review Fall 2020
"For much of the 20th century, politics was the province of elected leaders and expertise, aiming to fix problems without the public’s messy input. But what if the relationship between elected officials and constituents were recast as one of partners or coproducers?" (Felts et. al., 2020).
Democracy and Civic Life: What Is the Long Game for Philanthropy?
To explore where philanthropy might make more of a difference, the Kettering Foundation and the Knight Foundation invited leading thinkers on the future of our democracy to write about the challenges and opportunities for American democracy and what role philanthropy can play in addressing those challenges.
Connections 2020: The Work of Democratic Citizenship
This report by the Kettering Foundation includes a set of experiments and findings related to democracy, democratic citizenship, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond
This briefing paper looks at the financing for development (FfD) work at the United Nations in 2020, an exceptional year due to the outbreak of the global coronavirus crisis in the spring.
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