Q&A with Zyck Baggett, Senior Technical Advisor, Governance

By Daniel Bernard

April 11, 2024   |   0 comments

I have spent the past decade of my career supporting governance projects, with a primary focus on improving systems at the central and local levels. I spent most of that time in the field serving as Deputy Chief of Party on projects in Liberia and Mali....
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Democracy Delivers: Exploring the impact of participatory, responsive local governance on trust and legitimacy

By Sarah Jaber and Susan Kemp

January 23, 2024   |   0 comments

With 17 years of global democratic decline, how can international development practitioners support communities and local governance actors to partner in building responsive local governance ecosystems? And how does this impact broader perceptions of trust in and legitimacy of government? ...
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Community policing for lasting trust: Lessons from northeast Syria

By Magdalena Dutkowska

January 22, 2024   |   0 comments

Building trust, particularly in regions healing from conflict, is a gradual process requiring careful nurturing and constant safeguarding against its erosion. Since the rise and fall of ISIS in northeastern Syria, re-establishing the Self Administration of Northeast Syria (SANES) as the region's de facto government and rebuilding trust in its safety & security providers has proven challenging. ...
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People-centered justice as transformation in rule of law practice

By Alycia Ebbinghaus-Owens

December 11, 2023   |   0 comments

USAID’s 2023 Rule of Law Policy “sets forth a new paradigm for its programming to advance the rule of law in partner countries: people-centered justice. ...
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Q&A with the COP: How Tejiendo Paz is promoting lasting peace in Guatemala

By Michael J. Zamba & Ashley Williams

September 21, 2023   |   0 comments

Conflict, political crises, democratic backsliding and violent extremism are among the many complex challenges that are barriers to peace....
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