Curbing the Escalating Cost of Politics
This policy brief addresses the critical need for comprehensive campaign finance reforms in Uganda to enhance transparency, accountability, and fairness…
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The Politics of Language in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language is a contentious issue in South Africa. These contestations manifest themselves through resistance to the use of languages that…
Eat Widely, Vote Wisely?
Democracy in many developing countries is undermined by widespread vote buying—the provision of cash or goods in exchange for votes.…
Community Health Workers as Rights Defenders: Exploring the Collective Identity of the Mitanins of Chhattisgarh, India
This Working Paper discusses the Mitanin program, a state-run community health worker program in Chhattisgarh state, India. It is based…
The Emerging Field of Political Innovation
Civil society has attended to social problems for decades while intentionally refraining from overt engagement with politics. But a new…
Building Worker Power in Global Supply Chains: Lessons from Apparel, Cocoa, and Seafood
This working paper is about the campaigners and worker organizers in the global South and North who have challenged the…
A seven-point plan for Ukraine to win the war and secure a sustainable peace
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is in its second year. The human toll and destruction in Ukraine have been…
Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Western BalkansOctober 2023KIPRED
Just like the business adage, ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’, it is also true that ‘you can’t change…
Activating Spaces, Scaling Up Voices: Community-based Monitoring and Planning of Health Services in Maharashtra, India
From 2007, the Indian government’s National Health Mission (NHM) supported civil society networks to carry out large-scale participatory monitoring to…
Taming Big Tech: Protecting expression for all
Governments around the world are seeking to regulate how social media companies address problematic content on their platforms, especially hate…