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Students for Development
Good Governance & Development
AUCC Public Engagement Lecture
September 18, 2008
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What is the AUCC?
Provides services to member universities in three main areas:1.Public policy and advocacy2.Communications, research and
information-sharing3.Scholarships and international
programs
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AUCC Students for Development Award
• Awards of $10,000 to pursue internships of a minimum of 3 months promoting good governance in developing countries.
• Designed to support senior-level university students
• Undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada provided though the Canadian International Development Agency
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Students for Development and Good Governance
•What is governance?–How collective decisions are taken.
•What is good governance?–Attaching certain practices to the concept of governance
–Characteristics of society.
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CIDA and Good Governance
“Without good governance – without the rule of law, predictable administration, legitimate power and responsive regulation – no amount of funding, no amount of charity will set us on the path to prosperity.”
Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, 1997
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Kristin McHale
B.C.L./LL.B. ’09, 3rd year, McGill Faculty of Law
Consortium for Development and Justice and Centre for Human Rights Studies
Caracas, Venezuela
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Consortium for Development and Justice
• Umbrella NGO:– Community dispute resolution– Judicial system reform– Citizen participation.
• Current projects: – Promoting aboriginal rights– Fostering recently-established
NGOs.• My role:
– Translation and research
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Centre for Human Rights Studies
• Centre promoting human rights education.
• Current Project: – Developing a human rights
manual to be distributed to universities across the continent.
• My role: – Editing and compilation of the
manual.
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Venezuela: Country of Contradictions
• Prosperity; Poverty• Socialist Revolution; Threatened
Democracy• -Improved Health Care and Education;
Increased Crime and Insecurity
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Chavez: Hero or Dictator?
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Governance
Consortium for Development and Justice:– Capacitation training sessions for aboriginal
communities– Participants are taught about their legal rights to
local self-government through community councils.
Centre for Human Rights Studies:– Respect for basic human rights is fundamental to
good governance.
Governmental Control of Civil Society: – Serious consequences for governance and
democracy.
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Visit! Volunteer! Learn!
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Samuel Walker
B.C.L./LL.B. ’09, 3rd year, McGill Faculty of Law
Refugee Law Project
Kampala, Uganda
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Refugees in Uganda
Refugees in Uganda260,000Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya
Internally displaced persons
1.8 million
Northern Uganda
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Who are refugees?
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Refugees and Governance
• Addressing problems associated with displacement are vital to good governance in Uganda and East Africa– Displacement disrupts social cohesion and
creates a cycle of violence• A very troubled region• Huge displaced population in Uganda (1.8 million)
– Land issues– Ethnic tensions
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Why refugees need special protection in Uganda
• They are deprived of important rights:
– No land rights– No political rights– No real freedom of
movement– Restricted access to
the economy– No right to eventually
become a citizen
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My internship: Refugee Law Project, Legal Aid Clinic
• Local NGO, affiliated with Makerere University• Founded in 1999• Research, advocacy, education
& training, legal aid.• Legal help
–becoming a refugee– routine legal problems
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Durable solutions1. Repatriation (return)
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Durable solutions2. Local integration
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Durable solutions3. Resettlement
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Visit Uganda!
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Marie-Claire St. Jacques
M.Sc. ’09, Integrated Water Resources Management
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Pretoria, South Africa
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South Africa since 1994:Redressing Past Inequities
• National Water Act 1998–Equity–Sustainability–Economic Efficiency
“Recognizing that while water is a natural resource that belongs to all people, the discriminatory laws and practices of the past have prevented equal access to water, and use of water resources”
Preamble to the National Water Act, 1998
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My Internship
• Stakeholder workshops
• Stakeholder interviews
• Policy Research: Challenges to good water governance and poverty alleviation in the Inkomati
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Stakeholders in the Water Sector
LONG PROCESSLOCAL IMPLEMENTATION IS KEY
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“The water crisis is mainly a crisis of governance”
2nd World Water Forum, 2000
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Christopher Mark McEwan
B.A. ’09, Economics, Political Science, Langue et littératurefrançaise
Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD)
Accra, Ghana
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Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD)
• Established 1998 to “promote good governance, and liberal economic reform through research, advocacy, and consultancy services.”
• Programs Intern– Supporting CDD's Mission– Example: Political Parties
Bill
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International and Regional Context
Location: Accra, Ghana–4th Republic since 1957 commenced
in 1992. • History of coups and counter coups, one
party states, and military rule.• Two party system
–Uncertain economic status
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CDD – Ghana and Governance
•Collaboration•Variety, complexity
Mark McEwan speaks to disadvantaged youth about education and democracy. (Photo: Abdul Wahab Musah)
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Concluding comments
• My internship was undertaken with financial support from the Government of Canada provided though the Canadian International Development Agency.
• Thank you to CIDA, AUCC, and the McGill Internship Office.
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For More Information
Internship Offices Network:
Email: [email protected]: www.mcgill.ca/internships
Phone: (514) 398-2916Leacock Building, Room 307
For more information on AUCC: www.aucc.ca