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Anti-corruption policy making in practice: What can be learned for implementing Article 5 of UNCAC? Synthesis report of six country case studies: Georgia, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Zambia
(U4 Report 2007:2, Research report, 2007-01-01)Fighting corruption is a challenge in any context, because corruption has many faces and can occur in different forms across all sectors and institutions of a country. The UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) recognises ... -
Building taxpayer culture in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia: Achievements, challenges and policy recommendations
(CMI Report R 2012:1, Research report, 2012-07-05)The study examines measures that aim to encourage taxpayer compliance through taxpayer education and constructive engagement between the government and citizens over taxation issues in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. ... -
Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: Insights from Zambia
(CMI Brief no. 2020:1, Report, 2020-02-01)What does it take for a female politician to win a party nomination? We still know little about women’s entry into politics in countries without formal gender quotas. Using data from Zambia, we argue that both in ... -
Capital flight, tax policy and lobbyists in Africa
(Lifting the veil of secrecy: Perspectives on international taxation and capital flight from Africa, Chapter, 2017-11-01)This article examines how the use of tax havens affects tax moral and lobbying, and how tax havens form elites’ and other actors’ incentives to block or promote tax reforms in African countries. A particlar focus is on the ... -
Collective donor responses: Examining donor responses to corruption cases in Afghanistan, Tanzania and Zambia
(U4 Report 2013:1, Research report, 2013-11-04)In 2006, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Ministers of Development expressed a desire to move towards more effective collective responses to corruption. A policy and follow up reports were developed, and ... -
Combating illicit financial flows and related corruption in Africa: Towards a more integrated and effective approach
(U4 Issue 2011:12, Research report, 2011-10-01)The relationship between anti-money laundering and anti-corruption strategies is a key issue for developing countries. Corruption and money laundering cannot be effectively addressed solely by the specialised agencies ... -
Comparing legal activism in Zimbabwe and Zambia
(CMI Working Paper WP 2020:5, Working paper, 2020-11-01)Battles over democracy are manifested in contestations over legal frameworks and within judicial institutions. Lawfare refers to the strategic use of law and legal institutions by actors in civil and political society to ... -
Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa
(CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 8, Report, 2017-11-01)Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. Why does counter-mobilization arise ... -
Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa
(Political Studies, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-01)Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. To explore differences between states ... -
Do Interest Groups Matter in Economic Policy-Making? Reflections from a Zambian case study
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1994)The current debate within development research strongly emphasise the role of interest groups in developing and sustaining democratic and liberal economic reforms. With this debate as its point of departure, the paper ... -
El papel de la sociedad civil en el proceso de examen de la UNCAC: ¿avanzar más allá del cumplimiento?
(U4 Issue 2013:10, Research report, 2013-12-01)El papel crucial que la sociedad civil desempeña en la lucha contra la corrupción es ampliamente reconocido. La Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra la Corrupción (UNCAC) reafirma esta convicción en su preámbulo y en ... -
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
(CMI Insight 2016:4, Report, 2016-05-01)Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. There is a continuum ranging from criminalization to non-criminalization in the legal ... -
Enforcement of water rights
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 9, Report, 2016-05-01)In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved the ability of poor and marginalized people to secure access to water? Of the ... -
Extractive sectors and illicit financial flows: What role for revenue governance initiatives?
(U4 Issue 2011:13, Research report, 2011-11-18)Countries highly dependent on natural resources are among the most severely affected by the problem of illicit financial flows. Despite a lack of definite studies proving the correlation between higher dependency on natural ... -
From Policy Guidelines to Problem Solving. A Critical Assessment of the National Conservation Strategies of Botswana and Zambia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1993)This study focuses on the National Conservation Strategies of Botswana and Zambia. The strategies contain detailed elaborations about environmental problems, goals, means and implementation. The implementation of the NCSs ... -
Good governance for medicines initiatives: Exploring lessons learned
(U4 Issue 2013:3, Research report, 2013-05-13)Corruption in the pharmaceutical system results in wasted resources, limited access to health services and reduced health gains. In this U4 Issue paper, we examine select global initiatives in the area of good governance ... -
How to Assess the Political Role of the Zambian Courts?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)The paper addresses the methodological problems concerning how to assess the political role of courts in Zambia - and in new democracies more generally, and suggests a framework within which this can be done. Particular ... -
Is mutual accountability feasible? A conceptual discussion with policy implications
(U4 Issue 2012:11, Research report, 2012-12-14)Mutual accountability is one of five principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. Yet comparatively little has been written about this principle and how it is operationalised. It remains ill-defined and poorly ... -
Local government revenue mobilisation in Anglophone Africa
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:6, Working paper, 2012-10-03)This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilization in Anglophone Africa with an emphasis on urban settings. Specific revenue instruments and their effects on economic efficiency, income ... -
Making hay while the sun shines: Experiences with the Zambian Task Force on corruption
(U4 Practice Insight 2011:4, Report, 2011-06-28)In 2002 the Government of Zambia established an intragovernmental task force to investigate allegations of corruption against former President Frederick Chiluba and his inner circle. The task force was mandated to prosecute ...