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'In this Canadian election, vote for the world'
Expressing disappointment in the quality of the foreign policy debate in the federal election campaign so far, some Canadians have encouraged voters to "vote for the world."  Afghanistan, climate change, global poverty and Canada's reaction to the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war are all cited as reasons why citizens should demand that foreign affairs be at the top of the government's policy agenda. [MORE]

Canada Votes 2008: What effect on Governance?
With Canada's federal election taking place next Tuesday, this week the GV News Blog looks at how the vote may effect Canadian efforts to promote better governance and democracy at home and abroad. Our first post links to a review of political parties' foreign policy objectives since 2004. [MORE]

Democratic Development: Celebrating Gains, Confronting Challenges
In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Amelita Armit and Robert Miller of Ottawa's Parliamentary Centre discuss the importance of international democratic development and its upcoming e-dialogue collaboration with Governance Village [MORE]

From the GV Library
Advancing Canada's Role in International Support for Democratic Development: the SCFAID Report
With this report containing 28 recommendations, the 'SCFAID Report' sets out a comprehensive and forward-looking agenda to advance Canada’s role in the promotion of democratic development internationally. We believe that Canada should become among the world leaders in a growing field of international policy that is as necessary to the future of global order as it is challenging in implementation. [MORE]

Advancing Democracy Abroad: A Proposal to Create the Democracy Canada Institute
Our daily newspapers tell the tale: hardly a day goes by without a story about failed states, like Afghanistan or Haiti, trying to build the minimal structures of a functioning society, or already strong civil societies like Taiwan or Hong Kong striving to make the jump to a sustainable democracy. State-building, civil society-building and democracy-building are three of the most important topics in the world today, and this paper is dedicated to the question of whether Canada can make a contribution to international democratic capacity building. [MORE]

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Profiles in Governance
IAN SMILIE: DIAMONDS AND DEVELOPMENT
"People said: ‘Diamonds were sexy; it was easy.’ Well, diamonds weren’t sexy and it wasn’t easy. To get a global certification system for all rough diamonds was a total pipe dream. But we did." [MORE]

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DR. NELSON SEWANKAMBO: AFRICAN HEALTH PIONEER
“There are many organizations working in development that prescribe. ‘You need a well. You need a protected stream. You need a hospital.’ And then they build the hospital. Salama SHIELD engages affected people – they decide what they need.” [MORE]

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PAUL POLAK: POVERTY REDUCTION REVOLUTIONARY
"Poverty reduction is just a byproduct of what I like to do. I like to ask questions and satisfy my curiosity. It’s not a dreary, dry, depressing topic – it’s a hell of a lot of fun." [MORE]

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Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Assistance
This report describes research on the problem of corruption in humanitarian assistance. Seven major international humanitarian NGOs volunteered to be part of the project and allowed researchers access to their headquarters, staff and documentation along with similar access to field programs in crisis-affected countries. [MORE]

Corruption Warning Signs: Is Your Project at Risk?
What factors conspire to cause a development project to fail? Poor project design and management of course. Also lack of client ownership. And capacity constraints. And corruption. Corruption warning signs: is your project at risk? is a toolkit recently developed by the Latin America and Caribbean unit of the World Bank that lists these pitfalls phase by phase throughout the project's life. [MORE]

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The Governance Tool Kit
In partnership with CIDA, this tool offers information and measurement tools for key governance issues. [MORE]

Measuring Governance: A Handbook
A comprehensive tool for assessing trends in governance and democracy. [MORE]

World Governance Indicators
A web tool with the ability to generate charts, tables and world maps of governance indicators across 212 countries. [MORE]

E-Dialogues
In GV's first e-Dialogue, we ask international affairs expert David Carment about his handbook that measures governance. He tells us that if we used it, we'd have a more effective and apolitical foreign aid policy.  [MORE]