Final report of the ad hoc Working Group on Participatory Development and Good Governance: Part 2, Lessons from experience in selected areas of support for participatory development and good governance

The Ad Hoc Working Group set up following the adoption of the DAC (Development Co-operation Directorate of OECD) Orientations on Participatory Development and Good Governance at the December 1993 DAC High Level Meeting (HLM) has completed its three-year mandate. Part I of this report contains the final report while part II (i.e. the present part), Lessons from Experience in Selected Areas of Support for Participatory Development and Good Governance, contains summaries of the discussions on the main themes taken up over the last three years in formal meetings and in a series of informal seminars organised jointly by Members and the OECD Development Centre. It looks at the role of donors in the democratisation process; civil society and democratisation; human rights in development cooperation; legal systems; and democratic decentralisation. Additionally, a separate publication Evaluation of Programs Promoting Participatory Development and Good Governance resulting from surveys of evaluation results and lessons learned in a number of relevant PD/GG sectors.