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Women’s Political Representation as Key to Implementing Domestic Violence Laws: An Analysis of Ghana and Mexico

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Since the 1990s, over one hundred countries have passed domestic violence legislation in response to calls from the international community to that effect. Mexico and Ghana are two such countries. Having passed these laws, however, Mexico and Ghana have taken quite divergent paths during implementation. Mexico’s protective services for survivors...

Autor:

Cecile Lachenal,

Cecilia Toledo,

Akosua K. Darkwah y

Mansah Prah

Año:

2017

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What Matters When it Comes to Adopting Local Content? A Comparative Analysis of Success Factors in Africa and Latin America

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Local content is a development strategy aimed at increasing the benefits from the oil and gas sector and translating them to other sectors of the economy. While this strategy has been widely adopted in Africa and Latin America, little is known about why local content strategies have been successful –...

Autor:

Marcela Morales,

Juan José Herrera,

Elijah Dickens Mushemeza y

John Okiira

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2017

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Land Tenure and the Sustainability of Pastoral Productive Systems: A Comparative Analysis of the Andean Altiplano and the East African Savannah

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Pastoralism is the main production system practised in rangelands and drylands, providing livelihoods to an estimated 500 million people globally. Alternative land production systems are not feasible in these areas due to harsh weather and climatic conditions. Nowadays pastoral communities face challenges to accessing land and mounting pressure on their...

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Lilian Kirimi, Timothy Njeru, Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave y Sandra Rodríguez

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2017

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Collective land tenure regimes and vulnerability reduction in pastoralist societies of the andean altiplano

Perú

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Based on research into the evolution of land tenure regimes and their implications for the sustainability of pastoral production systems, this document provides public policy recommendations to help sustainable development of pastoralist societies. Evidence shows that collective land regimes create the conditions for the development of sustainable production systems while...

Autor:

Gerardo Damonte y

Sandra Rodríguez

Año:

2016

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Providing stronger protection for victims of domestic violence in Ghana

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Ghana passed the domestic violence act as far back as 2007 but the absence of a legal instrument backing the law has left the provision and coordination of support services, such as shelters for domestic violence survivors, in the hands of mostly non-state actors. Until recently Ghana had only one...

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2016

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Community-based crime prevention in El Salvador: social capital, collective efficacy, social-environmental factor and insecurity in communities

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Community-based Crime Prevention has begun to be perceived as a good initiative to meet the increasingly high levels of crime and violence in Latin America and in El Salvador. Our study indicates that for communities to cope with crime, violence and lack of security, the inhabitants of these communities, not...

Autor:

Ricardo Córdova y

Alan Melara

Año:

2016

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Prevención comunitaria del delito en El Salvador: capital social, eficacia colectiva, factores socio-ambientales e inseguridad en las comunidades

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La Prevención Comunitaria del Delito se ha comenzado a percibir como una buena iniciativa para afrontar los cada vez más altos niveles de crimen y violencia en América Latina, y en El Salvador. Nuestro estudio indica que para que las comunidades puedan hacerle frente al delito, la violencia e inseguridad,...

Autor:

Ricardo Córdova y

Alan Melara

Año:

2016

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Cuidado con los baches: los mecanismos de rendición de cuentas horizontal en Argentina

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La democracia es la principal regla de juego en América Latina. Sin embargo, aún persisten algunas amenazas a su calidad institucional. Este documento explora una de las principales debilidades institucionales: la rendición de cuentas horizontal entre el poder legislativo y ejecutivo. La rendición de cuentas horizontal es el control del...

Autor:

Natalia Aquilinox,

Julia Pomares,

Agustina Suaya,

María Page y

Sofía Estévez

Año:

2016

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Informality and Inclusive Growth in Latin America: The Case of Colombia

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The purpose of this research is to understand the impact of informality on inclusive growth in Latin America, and particularly in Colombia. The relationship between informality and inclusive growth is represented by two different hypotheses. According to the traditional view, informality constrains inclusive growth by restricting growth of the formal...

Autor:

Leonardo Villar; Cristina Fernandez

Año:

2016

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Explaining theEffectiveness ofCommunity-Based CrimePrevention Practices

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The crisis in the criminal justice system, especially in African nations, has been the subject of academic and policy debates with the consensus being that state apparatuses alone are incapable of improving the crime situation. As Killingray (1986) explains, the adoption and extension of indirect rule in the British colonies, especially...

Autor:

Ayobami Ojebode; Babatunde Raphael; N. J. Onyechi

Año:

2016

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Beyond Domestic Violence Laws in Latin America: Challenges for Protection Services for Survivors

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The feminist and human rights movements in the Latin America Region have made public the discussion of violence against women as a social and multifaceted problem embedded in the private, public and collective spheres. Violence against women perpetuates gender gaps, highlighting the vulnerable situation of exclusion women face. In response,...

Autor:

Cecile Lachenal

Cecilia Toledo

Tom Bakker

Año:

2016

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Needed: a legal framework for strengthening oversight role of the kenyan parliament

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This policy brief is drawn from a research paper on Horizontal Accountability of the Executive to the Legislature in Africa: A Case of Kenya. The research adopted a mixed methods approach that was QUAL-Quan, in-depth interviews were held with Members of the County Assemblies (MCA) and officers at the National...

Autor:

Paschal B. Mihyo,

Truphena E. Mukuna y

Herman Musahara

Año:

2016

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