Botswana/Namibia/Tanzania: Power and the UNDP democracy agenda

"If there is such thing as the development zeitgeist, it is today embodied by the linked concepts of good governance, democracy and human rights. In the pages that follow, this trinity is referred to as the 'democracy agenda'. More specifically, the Report is concerned with the related programmes of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP), most notably rule of law, media reform, civil-society support, election-support and state capacity-building. In the light of widespread evidence that, for the United Nations (UN), the democracy agenda does not crown 50 years of stunning development achievements, what might this new agenda hold?" This is the introduction to a research report from the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal called 'Wishful thinking, Willful blindness and artful amnesia: Power and the UNDP's promotion of democracy in Botswana, Namibia and Tanzania'.