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Community Driven Development Series Introduction
"Policymakers and the international community struggle with how to deliver essential services in the context of violent conflict... Community Driven Development (CDD)… has been utilized as a tool to address these complex issues… This series draws on the experience of ISE’s analysts and CDD practitioners and will tackle challenges and explore emerging trends on the “next generation” of CDD" (Institute for State Effectiveness, 2019).
Data in Government
"The massive proliferation of data has fundamentally changed the systems of modern governance and development… This paper outlines how governments can harness data to advance their agendas and meet changing citizen expectations surround service delivery and technology" (Institute for State Effectiveness, 2019).
Raising their voices: How effective are pro-youth laws and policies?
"There is little research on whether pro-youth mechanisms actually improve youth engagement. This report begins to fill that gap by analyzing the effect on youth engagement of four specific pro-youth legal and political mechanisms: national youth policy strategies, reducing minimum ages for voting and candidacy, youth quotas, political party youth wings" (CEPPS, 2019).
Raising Their Voices: How Effective are Pro-Youth Laws and Policies?
This report analyzes “the effect on youth engagement of four specific pro-youth legal and political mechanisms: national youth policy strategies, reducing minimum ages for voting and candidacy, youth quotas, and political party youth wings” (CEPPS 2019).
Youth Leading Debate: Program and Instruction Manuals
"NDI developed the “Youth Leading Debate” program to provide young people with an opportunity to learn the art of competitive debate and develop practical political leadership skills. This manual aims to serve as a resource for developing youth debate programs and supporting young people..." (National Democratic Institute, 2019).
The Internet's Challenge to Democracy: Framing the Problem and Assessing Reforms
This paper examines how “concern that the most democratic features of the internet are, in fact, endangering democracy itself” wherein “democracies pay a price for internet freedom...in the form of disinformation, hate speech, incitement, and foreign interference in elections” and face economic challenges” (Persily, 2019).
People, Profits and Peace
This report encourages “the private sector to...pursue an agenda which builds on but also goes beyond human rights due diligence” and “calls on policymakers and civil society to work with business in novel ways to complement existing dialogues on business and human rights” (Martin, Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Lisa ten Brinke, 2019).
Is There a Populist Wave in Europe?
“In this commentary, Benjamin Martill and José Feio examine the rise of populist parties in Europe, and question the extent to which the recent success of populist parties is a singular phenomenon, or whether it is a result of parallel evolution” (Martill and Feio, 2019).
Investing in Canadians' Civic Literacy
This report: Clarifies what civic literacy is and does, makes the case for why action on civic literacy is so important explains how difficult it is to measure civic literacy and how levels of civic literacy are not evenly distributed across the population, presents some of the challenges to teaching civic literacy and how unevenly it is taught outside of school and discusses how to proceed, and the need for greater investment from government.
Advancing Universal Representation: A Toolkit
“This report is the first component of a three-part toolkit... informed by CPD, NILC, and Vera’s experiences advancing the universal representation movement. These experiences have been guided by the expertise of advocates, organizers, legal service providers, and policymakers... who have led publicly funded deportation defense efforts” (Berberich et al., 2018).
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