Providing tools to build resilient democracies.
Democracy Works papers are longer analytical and more academic writings and are for those interested in more depth and detail.
Democracy Works Foundation and consortium partner ECDPM look at how civil society organisations can engage with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) when it…
Introduction As COVID-19 induced economic crises continue to deepen, climate change continues to unleash hunger and living costs soar because of spiralling inflation because…
South Africa’s overarching societal good moral values, whether set by democracy, culture, or religion, which govern individuals’ behaviour, intimate spaces, day-to-day interaction with others,…
Ordinary citizens, consumers, and civil society must play more active roles as shareholders of state-owned enterprises than is currently the case, as activist shareholders…
Introduction The persistent attacks on the Constitution by populists, the incompetent and the corrupt have undermined the public legitimacy of the supreme law, unleashing…
Introduction We require societies and democracies that are more sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous. Yet, we seem to be going backwards, both by objective performance…
The manner in which German engineering firm, Siemens, changed its profits-at-all-cost corporate culture, cleaned up its ethics and held employees found guilty of wrongdoing…
South Africa recorded its first case of COVID-19 on 5 March 2020. The Government has implemented a wide range of measures in order to…
The new coronavirus pandemic is not only wreaking destruction on public health and the global economy but is also disrupting democracy and governance worldwide….
Zambia recorded its first case of Covid-19 on 18 March 2020. The Government through the Ministry of Health and with support from cooperating partners…