Modelling Success in Governance and Institution-Building, GHANA and NIGERIA

The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) and the Center for Democracy and Development (Nigeria)  teamed up to implement this project, which aims among other things:

• supplementing existing information on governance and institutional building in West Africa,
• enhancing the prospects for developing appropriate interventions and adopting effective solutions to weaknesses in institutions of governance,
•  bridging the knowledge gap on governance institutions of relative success in West Africa,
• establishing a mechanism for sharing information on divergent institutional strengths and weaknesses and building the capacity and
•  expanding the knowledge of personnel of governance institutions and researchers through participatory research.

Located within a broader goal of identifying concrete strategies to advance institutional performance in Africa, the study seeks to highlight good practices, lesson of value and successes in the functioning of these institutions with emphasis on making the linkage between good practice and models of success in democratic governance. The Nigerian leg of the project is billed to study the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in order to facilitate a comparison in terms of good practices and reasons for successes and failures with the Ghana Electoral Commission.