Governance and Poverty Reduction
Linking democratic governance to poverty reduction has two core objectives:
- To strengthen responsive institutions that deliver to the poor and vulnerable/marginalized groups at all levels (international, national, and sub-national or local).
- To enhance participative processes which strengthen the relationship of civil society to national, sub-national (or local) and international policy making circles in order to ensure representation in and accountability of economic policy.
An enhanced linkage of democratic governance and poverty reduction policies is a guarantee that we face up to the challenges of sustainable human development with special consideration of dynamics of inequality and exclusion, gender inequality, violent conflict and environmental degradation.
In doing so, the centre has four areas of engagement, linking democratic governance to poverty reduction with the aim of developing policy analysis, advocacy and program tools:
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