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The IRG wishes you a very Happy New Year 2014!
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Latest Publications
• Cross-sectional analysis of the capitalization of the Comité Français pour la Solidarité Internationale’s (CFSI) "Civil Society and Participation" (CSP) program (available in French only); and its associated video interviews of the actors involved in the CSP programs
• International Meeting Process for Debate and Proposals on Governance: Yaoundé Meeting proceedings (French and English versions)
• International Network for Reflection and Proposals on a Plural Approach to Constitutions (INC): Coproducing the Social Contract without Rethinking the Governance System: the Process of Amending the Icelandic Constitution 2009-2013 (English and Icelandic versions)
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New on the website!
• New page dedicated to the IRG’s capitalization of the CFSI’s “Civil Society and Participation” program (2006-2009 and 2010-2013).
See dedicated page »
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Program news
Coproduction of Public Action
• The IRG has completed its work of systematization of experiences within the framework of the study on "the adaptation of Colombian cities to climate change", in partnership with Fedesarrollo and Ciudad Humana Foundation and with the support of AFD. From nearly a hundred interviews, 33 experience accounts feedbacks were compiled. The cross-sectional analysis highlights the importance of collaboration between state and non-state actors at the local level and underlines a dozen major challenges that must be addressed. The study’s results will be published in early 2014.
Read the cross-sectional’s executive summary (available in Spanish only)
• The IRG authored the cross-sectional analysis of the CFSI’s “Civil Society and Participation” program (2010-2013). This analysis follows the implementation of a continuous process of capitalization throughout the conduct of the 18 projects supported by the program. The findings relate to the conditions of the participation of civil society in the dialogue with the government, for legitimate and effective public policies. They highlight several effects that these participation processes have on the participation of actors, institutions and public policies. Moreover, other crosscutting lessons challenge the very practice of multi-stakeholder dialogue and call for an approach based on social change over time.
Read the full text of the cross-sectional analysis (available in French only)
Read the cross-sectional analysis’ executive summary (available in French only)
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Program News
Legitimacy and the Rootedness of Power
• The IRG is part of an international research team involving universities, think tanks, businesses, civil society and indigenous peoples, French, American, Canadian, led by the University of Ottawa and supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The 5-year project aims to compare the practices of coexistence of different legal traditions in the Americas, Africa, and the South Pacific island states so as to identify the conditions of constructive interactions to develop more legitimate and effective public policies. Three areas of study are preferred: land and resources, family and justice.
• To capitalize on the work done by the IRG and its partners since 2007 on the sources of legitimacy of power in the International Meeting Process for Debate and Proposals on Governance, the IRG is coordinating a collective book on the legitimacy of political power and its practices that will be published in 2014 in the Karthala Editions. This book draws on a variety of different authors (experts, academics, representatives of civil society and international organizations) from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Arab World. Inspired by the methodology for analyzing the sources of legitimacy of power in various societies developed through the International Meeting Process, this book aims (i) to provide a "guide" for the understanding and analysis of processes of legitimation of power, and (ii) to highlight the issues such processes underpin in terms of public policy at the time of globalization.
• The first case studies study of the International Network for Reflection and Proposals on a Plural Approach to Constitutions (INC) is now online on the website and discusses the process of constitutional reform in Iceland.
This study, along with the six more to come (on Chile, Andean America, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Ghana, and the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights. See ”To be published” section below), is a descriptive analysis of concrete diversity management regulation practices. They will help feed a cross–sectional reflection planned for the end of 2014 which will focus on the plural management of diversity in public policy.
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Transversal NewsThe IRG conducted a study on "the scope, effectiveness and relevance of sanctions in international development cooperation" for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Interviews with key actors (government officials, NGOs) were complemented by case studies in certain countries so as to assess the impact of these sanctions on local situations and on the French international development apparatus itself. The final report was turned in at the occasion of a restitution meeting which was attended by, among others, representatives of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the French Development Agency (AFD), and the International Organization of la Francophonie.
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Training Courses News
Public Administration: Conakry, Guinea (6-13 November 2013)
The IRG trained 400 officials in Guinea as part of a cooperation project of the French Ministry of foreign Affairs, led by Sciences Po Bordeaux, with the aim to "rejuvenate and feminize" the Guinean public administration.
Legitimacy: Ottawa, Canada (1 December 2013)
The IRG held a course entitled "State and the rule of laws" in the context of a multi-year research project organized by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in collaboration with nine partner organizations (universities, civil society, indigenous organizations), and which is piloted by the University of Ottawa. The course aimed to introduce researchers to the understanding and analysis of legal pluralism in society and its challenges in terms of making legitimacy and effective public policies, and the increasing thereof more efficient.
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To be published
Colloquium Proceedings
• International Meeting Process for Debate and Proposals on Governance: North African Perspectives
• International Meeting Process for Debate and Proposals on Governance: Addis Ababa Meeting. Diversity Management through Public Action: the case of Constitutions and Human Rights
These publications will be accessible on the Colloquium Proceedings section of the publication section of the IRG’s website.
Case studies from the International Network for Reflection and Proposals on a Plural Approach to Constitutions
• Approche plurielle et articulation intégrale des regulations dans la zone andine : Colombie, Équateur, Bolivie (English title: Plural approach and integral articulation of the regulatory framework in the Andean zone: Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia)
• L’Irak : un système politique en crise (English title: Irak: a political system in crisis)
• Processus constitutionnel et pluralisme en Égypte : au Coeur d’une transition (English title: Constitutional process and pluralism in Egypt: at the heart of a transition)
• La Commission africaine des Droits de l’Homme et des Peuples (English title: The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights)
• El pluralismo normativo en Chile (English title: Normative pluralism in Chile)
These publications will be accessible on Diversity and Legitimate Democratic Governance page of the IRG’s website.
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