Local governance comprises a set of institutions, mechanisms and processes through which citizens and their groups can articulate their interests and needs and mediate their differences. The participation of citizens in governance is one of the underlying components of democracy. Engaging citizens in the act of governance engenders transparency, improves accountability and public resource management and brings about good policy outcomes, development and the social well-being of citizens.
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During a crisis such as a public emergency, the effectiveness of parliaments should be assessed by considering their ability to activate in a timely manner the necessary disaster management legislative framework, and to provide oversight to ensure that such legislation is applied by the executive in a necessary, non-discriminatory and proportional way.
On the 18th and 19th of March 2023, International IDEA's Tunis Office, organized a Moot Court Competition on the limitation clause of rights and freedoms in the Tunisian constitution and the principle of proportionality.
Since 2014, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance has been working with Tunisian institutions and civil society to promote the implementation of proportionality in the country.
أحدثت المادة الجامعة في الدستور التونسي (الفصل ٤٩ في دستور ٢٠١٤/ الفصل ٥٥ في دستور ٢٠٢٢)، إختلافاً فارقاً في منظومة حماية الحقوق والحريات في تونس عبر تعديل تدخل السلطة التي تجنح غالباً إلى الحد من الحريات، وذلك من خلال اشتراط تدخل تشريعي لوضع الضوابط المقيدة لهذه الحقوق والحريات.
نشـأت فكـرة المرصـد فـي إطـار مشـروع المؤسسـة الدوليـة للديمقراطيـة والإنتخابـات المتعلـق بالمـادة الجامعـة مـن الدسـتور التونسـي والـذي تعمـل عليـه المؤسسـة منذ سـنة ٢٠١٩.
نشأت فكرة المرصد في إطار مشروع المؤسسة الدولية للديمقراطية والانتخابات المتعلق بالمادة الجامعة من الدستور التونسي والذي تعمل عليه المؤسسة منذ سنة ٢٠١٩. ويستند الاهتمام بهذه المادة إلى عدة اعتبارات من أبرزها أنها تكاد تكون المادة الجامعة الوحيدة في الدساتير العربية التي تضع الشروط والمعايير المتعلقة بالقيود على الحقوق والحريات والضوابط المرتبطة بها في دولة ديمقراطية، وذلك بالاعتماد على مبدأ التناسب بين القيود التي تسلطها السلطة العمومية بشكل عام على هذه الحقوق وبين موجباتها.
نشأت فكرة المرصد في إطار مشروع المؤسسة الدولية للديمقراطية والانتخابات المتعلق بالمادة الجامعة من الدستور التونسي والذي تعمل عليه المؤسسة منذ سنة ٢٠١٩. ويستند الاهتمام بهذه المادة إلى عدة اعتبارات من أبرزها أنها تكاد تكون المادة الجامعة الوحيدة في الدساتير العربية التي تضع الشروط والمعايير المتعلقة بالقيود على الحقوق والحريات والضوابط المرتبطة بها في دولة ديمقراطية، وذلك بالاعتماد على مبدأ التناسب بين القيود التي تسلطها السلطة العمومية بشكل عام على هذه الحقوق وبين موجباتها.
In this episode of Peer-to-Peer, we speak to Miguel de Brito and Domingos de Rosaria about cyclones Idai and Kenneth and their impact on Mozambique’s 2019 Presidential, Legislative and Provincial elections. This was the first time in recorded history that two strong tropical cyclones hit Mozambique during the same season.
Here are five events and trends from the last year that capture the most important developments in democracy and human rights across the continent.
The Mozambique Office of International IDEA facilitated on 14 and 15 October 2022 in the district of Matutuíne, Province of Maputo a two-day training and reflection session for the Parliamentary Committee on Public Service and Local Government on the new decentralisation architecture in Mozambique.
The recent postponement of the local polls in Karachi, Pakistan due to the extreme weather (Khan 2022) is an example of how natural hazards can affect an electoral process. To date, the floods have submerged a third of the country, destroying critical infrastructure and killed more than 1,000 people.
The 2019 elections in Mozambique were preceded by two cyclones that directly and significantly affected the electoral process in the central and northern regions. In addition to the cyclones, terrorist attacks which began in 2017 had a negative impact on voter registration and voting processes.
This case study provides several findings and lessons learned.
On July 25, exactly one year after Tunisia’s maverick President Kais Saied sacked the prime minister, dissolved the parliament, suspended the much-celebrated 2014 constitution and started to rule by decree, Tunisians voted to approve a draft constitution proposed by him that critics warn will
Members of Parliament from the Committees on Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights and Legality and on Public Administration and Local Government of the Mozambican Parliament jointly met over three days this past weekend to consider the Draft Law on Municipal Government, submitted to the Parliament by Government in 2021.
International IDEA has made women's participation one of its main axes in improving the inclusiveness of electoral processes in the Arab region.
International IDEA works to reduce the gap between women's rights as affirmed in the legal texts in the different Arab countries and the low rates of women in decision-making positions.
After a quarter of a century of democratic experience that followed another 25 years of a revolutionary process that put women’s emancipation at the centre of the revolutionary discourse, women in Mozambique still face social, economic and political exclusions that impact their participation and representation in politics in general and in electoral processes in particular, while constituting 51 per cent[1] of the population and 53 o
On the evening of 15 February 2022, reports emerged that key police and military officials in Djibouti were put under house arrest, reportedly amid fears of a coup d’état. This was the latest in the string of successful and attempted coups in Africa—from Mali to M
On 6 August 2021 International IDEA, in partnership with the Law Faculty of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Corporación Humanas and Comunidad Mujer, held a virtual seminar on gender and rules of procedure in constituent processes.