Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/2363-6270-2022-1-12
Balingene Kahombo
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/2363-6270-2021-1-46
Fabrice Kengne Fotso
L’échec des tentatives de mettre sur pieds une réglementation mondiale contraignante applicable aux forêts a eu pour conséquence de susciter des initiatives plus circonscrites, aux contours plus réalistes et en théorie moins sujettes à des pesanteurs. En Afrique centrale, l’idée a très vite reçu l’adhésion des décideurs et des actions concrètes ont été envisagées et réalisées, dans le but de parvenir à une gestion durable des forêts qui soit le résultat de démarches et d’actions concertées. Ces dynamiques ont conduit, à n’en point douter, à l’émergence d’une régulation à vocation sous-régionale, s’appliquant principalement aux forêts constituant l’entité écologique dit du Bassin du Congo. Seulement, si l’ossature d’une telle régulation est déjà clairement identifiable, il demeure important de se demander si celle-ci est dotée des attributs et atouts nécessaires pour parvenir à une gestion durable des forêts qui soit le fruit d’une concertation véritable et non feinte. La présente étude s’évertue à démontrer qu’il émerge indubitablement en Afrique centrale une régulation sous-régionale des forêts, quoiqu’il soit important de souligner, dans l’ensemble, son manque de fermeté.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/2363-6270-2023-1-70
F. Kariuki, E. Nwauche
On 27th August 2020, the Kenyan Judiciary together with its partners formally launched the AJS Framework Policy and the AJS Baseline Policy (AJS Policy Frameworks) which coincided with the ten-year anniversary of the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution of Kenya. The launch of the policy was awaited with huge expectations, as it was hoped that it would provide an appropriate framework for the operationalisation of “Autonomous Alternative Justice System” (AAJS) which is one of the institutions approved by the AJS Policy Frameworks to anchor Kenya’s emergent alternative justice system. This paper evaluates some of the options adopted by the AJS Policy Frameworks in the conception and implementation of the AAJS. Comparative lessons from the jurisprudence of ‘customary arbitration’ in Nigerian and Ghana, which are similar to the AAJS, are utilised to argue for more care and caution in the operationalisation of the AAJS Institutions in Kenya.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/2363-6270-2022-1-30
Kwaku Agyeman-Budu
The African Union (AU), which succeeded the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 2002, is based on a strong legal and institutional framework that reinforces constitutionalism at national, regional and continental levels. This framework is a response to the failure of the OAU to tame autocratic tendencies within its member states. It cements the organisation’s commitment to infuse the ideals, values and norms of constitutionalism into the conduct of domestic affairs and politics. The relevance of the framework stems from its ability, when adhered to by all member states, to prevent constitutional crises, many of which have a negative impact on national, regional and continental peace and security and often hinder the prospect of constitutional democracy. Using examples of AU interventions to stymie constitutional crises in the form of unconstitutional changes of government in the Central African Republic, Burundi and Southern Sudan, this paper highlights the dialectical relationship between constitutionalism, peace and security, which can ensure that AU interventions reinforce, rather than undermine, constitutional ideals. While noting the AU’s inability or unwillingness to apply this framework in all the constitutional crises it has been called upon to address, the article concludes that member states and the AU itself need to commit to the ideals of constitutionalism, otherwise the transformative constitutional framework will remain a mere paper tiger.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/2363-6270-2021-1-3
Stève Thiery Bilounga
En vue de faire financièrement face à la pandémie du coronavirus qui menace sérieusement le bonheur de sa population déterminée à atteindre le statut de pays émergent à l’horizon 2035, l’Etat camerounais déjà en proie à deux crises sur le plan économique et sécuritaire, va procéder à une modification de la loi de finances de l’exercice budgétaire 2020 par le truchement de l’ordonnance présidentielle du 03 juin 2020. Porteuse de plusieurs aménagements et innovations sur le plan budgétaire, comptable, fiscal et douanier, ce collectif budgétaire est la manifestation tangible de l’incidence de la lutte contre la crise sanitaire liée au Covid-19 sur les finances publiques de l’Etat du Cameroun.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/2363-6270-2020-2-215
E. Diehl
The Tunisian Constitution of 2014 requires local authorities to adopt mechanisms of participatory democracy. This paper presents how citizen participation in development planning has been implemented by the Tunisian administration in the frame of two Tunisian-German cooperation projects funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The first project example consists of a multi-stakeholder dialogue for integrated water resource management in Kairouan, central Tunisia, whereas the second example is about citizen participation in planning small-scale investments in local infrastructure in different parts of the country. External facilitation, inclusiveness, transparency, expectation management and commitment from all levels of the administration are described as success factors for implementing participatory processes. Similar cooperation projects supporting citizen participation should be aware of on-going power struggles at different levels, as well as the challenges of local legal implementation. Both examples illustrate areas of tension between the remnants of the authoritarian past in Tunisia, and innovative democratic approaches. Furthermore, the examples allow to observe how ambiguities regarding the distribution of decision-making power between national, regional and local level become manifest in the on-going process of decentralisation in Tunisia.
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