Women of Casamance: Building a regional movement for peace
The Casamance region of Senegal is the site of Africa’s longest running conflict. But the women of this region see…
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Civic Freedoms & the Sustainable Development Goals
In this 2018 report to the UN General Assembly (A/73/279), UN Special Rapporteur Clément Nyaletsossi Voule examines the linkages between…
The State of Civic Freedoms in North Africa and the Middle East
This report presents findings from an in-depth study, supported by the United States Agency for International Development, that explored the…
Open Up Guide Testing how to use open data to combat corruption in Mexico
The Open Data Charter has collaborated with the government of Mexico, Transparencia-Mexicana and Cívica Digital, to test how open data…
The Pulse: Australian Perspectives on Trust, The Political System and Citizens Juries
In March 2017, Pollinate Research conducted a quantitative study that takes the ‘pulse’ of Australians on a range of issues…
Systemic Impacts of Mini-publics
A mini-public is a democratic innovation that brings together a small, representative group of citizens to deliberate and advise on…
Participatory budgeting – the Australian way
For the First time in Australia a local council has used a deliberative democracy approach to obtain citizen advice on…