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Democracy & Development


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Democracy & Development is CDD's quarterly journal which provides detailed analysis on African political affairs. January's edition will be the last in the current format. after which D&D will be moving to a new A5 bi-annual format. Download a back issue in Adobe Acrobat Format: Democracy & Development, Vol. 2, No.4, Sep - Dec 2000
	See the 'Democracy & Development' section of the website, for information on the latest 'Rains' and 'Harmattan' editions of D&D.

CDD News

	CDD News is a regular update of CDD's work in Nigeria and the region

Books

	Report of the Strategic Thinking Leadership Training for Youths in the Niger Delta Edited by Amina Salihu and Mike Utsaha CDD’s strategic thinking leadership training was born out of our commitment to the building of a critical successor generation of young men and women that can influence policy, mediate and prevent conflict, protect community and individual human rights, through a participatory and process-led initiative to youth development in Nigeria. This report is a result of the series of workshops that CDD conducted in the three cities within the Niger Delta based on a needs assessment carried out in 1999 that identified the Niger Delta as representing a good case study of youth agitation. The publication is a narrative report on a series of three strategic thinking leadership-training workshops for youth in the Niger Delta from 2001 to 2003., held in Calabar, in Eket in Akwa Ibom, and in Benin City. The report is illustrated with pictures of participants and beyond the narrative report also contains a list of participants and a detailed participants’ evaluation of the workshops. NOVIB, SIDA and the MacArthur Foundation supported the program and the publication of this report. © Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD), 2004
	Expanding Women’s Political Space in Northeastern Nigeria Edited by Amina Salihu This publication is a report of activities carried out under the CDD Expanding Women’s Political Space initiative in Northeastern Nigeria, supported by OSIWA, from January 2002 to December 2003. The report focuses on the strategy dialogue and leadership training in Northeastern Nigeria, as well as on observations from the Nigerian elections for National Assembly (April 12, 2003), State House of Assembly (May 3, 2003) and local government (March 27, 2004), and finally on the future challenges for our work. Part of the gains of the strategy dialogue was the formation of a women’s caucus to intercede for and lobby political party and state structures for greater inclusion of women in the decision-making process. The report is illustrated with pictures throughout and includes a full list of participants that took part in the strategy dialogue and leadership training. © Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD), 2004
	Alternative Poverty Reduction Strategy for Nigeria Nigeria is one of the countries that were asked to produce a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) in order to receive concessional lending from the World Bank and the IMF. Nigeria produced an interim PRSP but then decided not to produce a final report. Instead the country developed a policy document called NEEDS which stands for ‘New Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy’. This is Nigeria’s own homegrown poverty reduction strategy. When the PRSP issue first appeared, CDD began a poverty reduction project. The idea was to get the views of the very poor as well as other Nigerians on what poverty actually means to them. This was based on the rationale that if such a strategy is to be effective, it is relevant to understand what ordinary Nigerians think about poverty and how it can be checked. The project involved research and a series of dialogues across all of Nigeria’s geopolitical zones, meetings with the academia, the media and representatives of government. This 130-page book is based on all the findings from the project activities, containing issues which must be taken into account in order to produce a useful and viable poverty reduction strategy for Nigeria. The book, with contributions from among others Dr Okechukwu Ibeanu and Dr Samuel Egwu, should be useful to anyone interested in the reduction of poverty in Nigeria. As stated by the British Department for International Development, anyone who wants to take poverty eradication in Africa seriously has to focus on the plight of an estimated 80 million people living in poverty in Nigeria.
	The Legislative & Governance Monitor This pilot survey provides a bird’s eye view of citizens’ perception of the executive and legislative branches of government in the last four years. The research was undertaken between November 2002 and February 2003, when a selection of legislators and ordinary citizens were interviewed. The work is essentially a perception index of how Nigerians relate to the present democratic ‘experiment’ in the country, in terms of how different or distinct it has been from the recent authoritarian past. A section of the membership of the The National Assembly was approached and subsequently afforded the opportunity to appraise the work that it had done in almost four years of lawmaking. Beyond these, the selection of interviewees was based on identifying some key role players, relevant for the focus of the survey on democracy and political governance, namely elected legislators and party representatives, representatives from the government and public sector, private sector organisations, civil society actors including organised labour, and traders, artisans, farmers and students. Nine states (Yobe, Kaduna, Benue, Lagos, Abuja, Anambra, Ekiti, Rivers, and Kogi) were selected to represent the country’s six geo-political zones. Necessary steps were taken to ensure that a broad spectrum of views was reflected as interviewees were selected across rural, urban, and peri-urban areas. The publication represents a key text in terms of understanding the aspirations towards, and judgement of, democracy by the Nigerian people. © Centre for Democracy & Development, Lagos Price: £5
	Summary report of the West African consultation on the Responsibility to Protect (RTP) Prepared by Dr Adedeji Ebo for CDD, this publication is a summary report of the West African civil society consultation on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’, the report of the ‘International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS)’ published by the Canadian institution IDRC in 2001. The concept of RTP as outlined in the report has its background in the post-Cold War principle of the right to ‘humanitarian intervention’ in situations of conflict. In this regard, the ICISS commission’s report on RTP takes it’s starting point from the principle that it is the sovereign state’s responsibility to protect the dignity and basic rights of its own citizens, but that failing this the responsibility to protect shifts to the international community. In February 2003 decided to bring together some of the representatives of relevant institutions working on issues of conflict, humanitarian intervention, transitional justice and human rights in West Africa. The aim was to help contextualising and shaping how to best carry forward the ideas contained in the ICISS commission’s report on RTP in West Africa. This illustrated 20-page summary report highlights the key issues raised during the exhaustive discussions, focusing on three key areas of deliberations: The conceptual basis of the Responsibility to Protect (RTP); the regional dimensions of RTP; and the operational mechanisms for advancing the principles of RTP practically within the West African sub-region.
	Security Sector Governance in Africa: A Handbook Edited by Nicole Ball & Kayode Fayemi This is the first comprehensive and practical guide on governing the security sector, drawing on both good and bad practices, providing realistic entry-points for broadening the security agenda in our states and at the same time suggesting ways of ensuring the professionalisation of the security forces in defence of our states and protection of the citizens. The handbook provides guidance on undertaking a process of security-sector transformation that is consistent with democratic governance and a human security agenda. The Security Sector Handbook describes critical processes and institutional relations that must come into being if the countries of sub-Saharan Africa are to develop democratic governance practices in the security sector. It aims to be a tool for promoting dialogue within the continent – nationally, regionally and across regions in Africa – on issues of security sector governance. It will also be useful among external actors, African governments and civil society groups on ways to enhance good governance in the security sector, consistent with African traditions and experience. The book is primarily intended for security-sector practitioners both in security organisations and among civil authorities charged with managing and monitoring the activities of the security organisations. Secondly, it is intended to assist policy makers, civil society, and those agencies that provide financial and technical support to strengthen security-sector governance and transformation. The handbook will also be a useful tool for external actors to provide meaningful support to these efforts. It is hoped that the handbook will encourage similar efforts at the national level, tailored to meet the specific needs of individual countries. The handbook consists of 164 pages with important text, tables, figures and chapter summaries in coloured boxes throughout the book, making it an excellent textbook for academic use, for self-study, or simply as a reference handbook. © Centre for Democracy & Development, 2004 Price: £12.-
	Deepening the Culture of Constitutionalism: Regional Institutions & Constitutional Development in Africa Edited by 'Kayode Fayemi From the 27th to the 30th of June 2001, the Consultative Meeting on 'The Role of Regional Institutions in Constitutional Development in Africa' was held in Cape Town, South Africa. Organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) with support from the Ford Foundation, the conference had as its main purpose the identification of the place of regionalism in constitutional development. Based on the conference contributions, this book contains the key contributions of participants, all of which had been involved in national and regional constitution-making processes.
	The Best is Yet to Come: Portrait of a Scholar-Activist: Essays in Honour of Professor Julius Ihonvbere. Fayemi, K. & P. Agbese (eds.) 2002.Published by CDD. ISBN: 978-35358-5-4. Available from CDD’s Office in Lagos. Commemorative publication with essays in honour of Julius Ihonvbere, marking his return to Nigeria in 2002. This volume, edited by Kayode Fayemi and Pita Agbese, has contributions from Clement Adibe, Pita Agbese, A.B. Assensoh, Kayode Fayemi, George Klay Kieh, and Ahehu Sani. The publication also contains Ihonvbere’s educational and professional history, including a full publication list. “Striking an effective balance between prolific scholarship in the science of politics and in the praxis that emphasises fearless activism against the politics of tyranny has been the forte of Professor Julius Ihonvbere. For those of us who have followed his scholarship and politics, this small book gracefully pays a deserving tribute to his enviable endowment.” Professor Ebere Onwudiwe, Editor, International Journal of African Studies, Wilberforce, Ohio, USA.
	The Legislative & Governance Index 2001. Published in 2002 by CDD. 178pp. ISBN: 978-35358-7-0. Available from CDD’s International Office, London for £5.00 To be sure, one reason for the persistence of the crisis between the executive and the legislative ranks of government is that information coming from either side tends to be highly politicised, and sometimes verges on misinformation. The inadvertent consequence of such tendency to misinformation is the high degree of cynicism that it breeds about the future of the current democratisation in the country. This pilot annual report records the perception of the performance of the legislature as well as that of the executive in 2001, and it is our expectation that in the initial three years of the project, the instruments that have been developed and tested within a cross-section of stakeholders ranging from parliamentarians to executive officeholders and ordinary citizens will result in the publications of regular, annotated briefing documents such as weekly, monthly and sessional reports on the proceedings of the legislature (especially its committees), which would also be translated into local languages and made available on the internet and on radio programmes.
	Transformative Change Through Sisterhood 1999 – 2001: The Report of the CDD Women’s Leadership Training: A Capacity Building for Empowerment Programme. Published in 2002 by CDD in conjunction with Akina Mama wa Africa. Edited by Amina Salihu. 144pp. ISBN: 978-2415-57-X. Available from CDD’s International Office, London for £3.00 This report is a volume of CDD’s Women’s Leadership training workshops held in conjunction with Akina Mama wa Afrika from 1999-2002. The report covers four sets of trainings, three Nigeria National workshops and one in Liberia. The women’s leadership workshop is a capacity building programme with objective of promoting ‘women’s participation and leadership in government and civil society through training and research’. The trust of this is to help shape women’s skills to engage with policies from a position of strength, using skills and knowledge. The report is set out in a largely verbatim fashion, with some parts presented in reported speech. It contains a separate chapter for each of the workshops complete with participants profiles.
	Mercenaries - An African Security Dilemma Edited by Abdel-Fatau Musah & J. 'K Fayemi, Forward by Lord Avebury Pluto Press, 2000 Recent investigation into activities of Sandline International in Sierra Leone has stimulated interest in the role of private armies in African conflicts. This fascinating book criticises mercenary involvement in post-Cold War African conflicts. The contributors investigate the links between the rise in internal conflicts and the proliferation of mercenary activities in the 1960s; the convoluted network between private armies, business interests and sustained poverty in Africa's poorest countries; and the connection between mercenary activities and arms proliferation. Countries discussed include Sierra Leone, Zaire, Angola, Uganda and Congo. Click here to read a review of this book. This publication can be ordered directly from CDD or from Amazon Books and from Pluto Books
	Over a Barrel - Light Weapons & Human Rights in the Commonwealth Edited by Abdel-Fatau Musah & Niobe Thompson Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, 1999 This CHRI report addresses critical issues regarding the ease of arms flow in the commonwealth and asks whether enough is being done to control the situation- especially in the UK This publication can be ordered from CHRI UK office
Occasional Papers

	The New Partnership for Africa's Development: Challenges and Developments The desire to impose a certain discipline on a largely inchoate debate was the primary reason behind the CDD’s decision to organise a conference on NEPAD, as the NEPAD debate has been going on in the popular media for some time with no clear guidelines and basic agreements. Our aim was to provide a platform for the informed discussion of the central issues of concern in the new Partnership. To this end, the CDD invited participants from various walks of life to make their inputs in the best tradition of free speech and open debate. This monograph is therefore an anthology of the papers presented at the CDD conference in May 2002 and other submissions from seasoned thinkers capturing the diverse perspectives, analyses, recommendations and judgements that NEPAD elicits across the continent and beyond
	Seeking Truth & Justice: Lessons from South Africa In this Occasional paper, Mr Onyegbula undertakes an in-depth examination of some of the major issues and problems of dealing with a past characterised by atrocities, human rights violations and impunity. In doing this, he drew strongly on his extensive study and eyewitness account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and offers comparative insights from other countries. Engaged as we are in a region that has been characterised by executive lawlessness, mindless brutalities and violence, Mr Onyegbula's essay provides a timely reminder of the danger in neglecting the linkage between truth, justice and reconciliation in societies where horrific crimes have been committed against ordinary citizens. As Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone move from a past characterised by serious crimes against humanity, citizens are clamouring for investigations into what actually happened. Significantly, the new government in Nigeria has taken tentative but commendable steps towards investigating the past. At the same time, the new Lome Peace Accord has a provision for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone even as it grants full amnesty to all perpetrators of human rights abuse in the country over the last eight years. The Liberian leadership is yet to respond to these demands except to say there are traditional ways of dealing with the past. Sonny Onyegbula's paper offers useful insights and practical steps with regard to how governments, civil society, and the international community can all work together to ensure the right balance between the search for immediate justice and the need for long-term stability.
	Towards a New Constitutionalism in Africa Professor Julius Ihonvbere's 'Towards the New Constitutionalism in Africa' is a debate over, and a struggle for constitutional reform. At its centre are ordinary people, who, marginalised by their leaders for decades, are now speaking out and demanding that their views, dreams and aspirations be factored into the constitutional document. Professor Ihonvbere calls this the struggle for the New Constitutionalism, `a process for developing, presenting, adopting and utilizing a political compact that defines not only power relations between political communities and constituencies, but also defines the rights, duties, and obligations of citizens in any society.' Professor Ihonvbere's survey of the terrain is magisterial and all-encompassing, drawing our attention to the emergence of new contestants for power in such countries as Ghana, Zambia, Malawi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo among others, the social forces that threw them up. and their pivotal role in the drive to democratise the process of constitution-making.
	Nigeria - Democratising a militarised society "The book provides an insight to the effect of military incursion into politics in Nigeria, and indeed in the West African sub region in particular...It is particularly recommended to students working in the field of politics, economics, sociology, conflict studies and any field dealing directly with human beings."