Democratic Governance and Sectoral Work: Toward Programmatic Integration

摘要

Over the past several months, the Africa Bureau has been developing an analyticmethodology for conducting macro-political assessments of its democratic governance initiatives. Emerging evidence of the importance of sectoral issues in this effort led to this study, which seeks to identify the linkages between democratic governance reform and sectoral activities. The overall finding is that clear connections exist between sector priorities and strategies and democratic governance efforts, and that the Africa Bureau's sectoral divisions are interested in pursuing them further. More specific findings are as follows. (1) The current sectoral strategies of the Africa Bureau's Sustainable Development Division (AFR/SD) are increasingly demand-oriented, and represent a departure from the supply driven approaches of the past, (2) Connections between democratic governance and sectoral programming occur at two levels.