Civil society groups are critical stakeholders in the Nigerian electoral process. Civil society groups in Nigeria got their first taste of organized electoral participation in 1998-99. During the 1999 elections, the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), a coalition of civil society groups working to promote democracy and good governance in Nigeria coordinated the activities of many Continue Reading...

Introduction Four years after Beinjing, twenty years after the Convention for Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and fifty one years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, women still remain on the margins of decision making and leadership all over the world. Despite widespread movements towards democracy, all over the world, in some countries Continue Reading...

Political finance is influenced by, and influences, relations between parties, politicians, party membership and the electorate. Money matters for democracy because much of democratic political activity simply could not occur without it. Narrow definitions of political finance tend to focus on ‘campaign and party funding’.1 In fact, many extra-party actors are involved in political competition Continue Reading...