African Governance Report 2013: elections & the management of diversity executive summary
The slight improvement in governance challenges African countries to intensify their efforts in deepening democratic culture and practices and in up scaling their governance performance. Steps include: enhancing the institutional capacity of democratic structures like parliament and the judiciary and of horizontal accountability bodies like the office of the auditor general, ombudsman, anti-corruption institutions and other public agencies; enacting freedom of information laws that grant to citizens and the media greater access to information; meeting demands for accountability from the political leadership; and providing better public services, social infrastructure and public security. This Report investigates elections in the face of managing diversity in Africa. It recommends major electoral, institutional, political and constitutional reforms to enable elections to facilitate the democratic management of diversity, while significantly improving their quality and credibility.
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