Consolidating democratic governance in the SADC region

Geographical Scope: 
Regional Initiative for the Southern African Development Community (SADC region).
Geographical Scope: 
Type of Initiatives:
Regional
Regions:
  • Africa
Country:
  • Angola
  • Botswana
  • Congo (Democratic Republic of)
  • Lesotho
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Seychelles
  • South Africa
  • Swaziland
  • Tanzania
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
Area of Governance : 
Civil Society
Democracy
Economic Governance
Local Governance and Decentralization
Website of initiative: 
http://www.eisa.org.za
Contact Address
Contact person: 

Mr. Denis Kadima - Electoral Institute of South Africa

Street: 

41 Stanley Avenue

Postal code: 

2006

City: 
Auckland Park
Country: 
Canada
Phone: 
+27 11 4825495
Email: 
denis@eisa.org.za
Cost (specify currency): 
1 000 000 EUR
Funding sources: 
SIDA
Status of Initiatives
Status: 
On-ging
From : 
01/01/2004
Until: 
12/31/2007
Purpose: 

The goals of the Programme are: - to advance democratic consolidation in Southern Africa in support of NEPAD with an independent, objective and scientifically sound analysis by regional experts focusing on the state of democratic development and inform direction on the way forward; - to strengthen the mechanism for qualitative and quantitative data collection for the purpose of formulationg criteria for evaluating democratic consolidation within SADC.

Source of Data: 
Using a combination of own and existing data
Type of Data Collection: 
Administrative Data
Aggregation of multiple indicators using various d...
Focus groups
In depth interviews
Panel of experts
Performance assessment / Desk studies
Secondary sources
Frequency of Data Collection / Analysis
Name: 
continuous
From: 
01/01/2004
Until: 
12/31/2007
Measurement Methods / Tools Generated or Used : 

1. Representation and Accountability; 2. Citizens participation; 3. Local governance; 4. Economic governance.

List of Indicators: 

This programme will provide an objective and independent analysis of the state of democracy in each of the SADC countries across 10 distinct, but cross-cutting, governance indicators. These include: economic governance corruption parliament national budgeting political parties the judiciary elections local government civil society conflict management - but with a focus specifically on parliament. By applying indicators that measure the legitimisation and institutionalisation of democratic practises over time, and combining these measurements with the articulation and application of democratic values by political leadership, the Institute will construct a basic foundation for examining democratic good governance and the human rights culture.

Main Users: 
Civil society
Donor agencies
International agencies
Media
Policy makers
Researchers
How to

Areas of Governance

Country Initiatives

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