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Disclaimer: The AGR team features news items and other highlights related to ECA's work on Governance. ECA is not responsible for the views expressed in none-UN of the articles and links listed below. For full copies of the featured articles,please contact the respective publishers.

Sierra Leone

Campaign for Good Governance Assesses Good Governance in Sierra Leone
Posted by Ishmael Dumbuya
Jul 19, 2007, 00:55 In their bid to promote good governance in Sierra Leone, the Campaign for Good Governance will undertake an assessment on governance in Sierra Leone by using the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) designed research instrument for monitoring good governance. More..

CGG Begins Salone Governance Assessment
By Rachel Horner
Concord Times (Freetown)
23 July 2007
The Campaign for Good Governance has started research on Sierra Leone Governance and Assessment and administered 100 questionnaires to participants yesterday at an expert panel study. Click here for full story.

UN mission helps train Sierra Leonean election officials
UN News Service
24 July 2007 - The United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) and the National Electoral Commission have finished training nearly 50 district officers, ahead of next month's presidential and parliamentary polls in the once war-torn West African nation. More...

Sierra Leone: UN, partners voice 'utmost concern' at electoral violence
UN News Service
30 July 2007 - The United Nations and its international partners have voiced renewed concern at widely reported cases of intimidation n and violence ahead of elections in Sierra Leone next month, calling on all concerned to avoid incitement and provocation in the small West African country that is still recovering from a disastrous decade-long civil war. More...

Related news stories
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23323&Cr=sierra&Cr1=leone#

Play on - music serves as tool in UN-backed plan for peaceful elections in Sierra Leone - 31 July 2007

UN appeals to parties in Sierra Leone to avoid incitement to violence ahead of polls - 26 July 2007

UN mission helps train Sierra Leonean election officials - 24 July 2007

Sierra Leone: UN-backed court sentences former rebel leaders - 19 July 2007

For this and other stories on Sierra Leone go to:
http://standardtimespress.net/cgi-bin/artman/publish/cat_index_44.shtml

Post-Conflict Sierra Leone to be assessed in the African Governance Project
ECA Press Release No. 11/2007
Addis Ababa, 29 May (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) held training and launch workshops for the African Governance Project, "Measuring and Monitoring Progress towards Good Governance", on 7th May 2007 in Freetown.

Measuring good governance - AGR II consultations in progress
Addis Ababa, 18 April 2007 - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has embarked on a series of national workshops to discuss the methodology and main objectives of the second edition of the African Governance Report (AGR II). More...

Measuring and Monitoring Progress towards Good Governance
Addis Ababa: February 22, 2007. The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) held a workshop in Cape Verde on “Measuring and Monitoring Progress towards Good Governance”. The workshop, held on 22 February 2007 is one of a series of similar events held in 11 other countries, aimed at consulting on the methodology and main objectives of the second edition of the African Governance Report (AGR II). AGR II will be published later in the year. More...

Tunisia

Analysis of Governance Survey in Tunisia Underway
An experts meeting was held in Tunisia on 9 June 2007 in the context of the Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) ongoing survey on “Measuring and Monitoring progress towards good Governance” across 36 African countries for the forthcoming African Governance Report II (AGR). The survey uses instruments developed by ECA to assess the perception on governance by households and experts at the country level.

Cape Verde