The DEPP Learning Agenda

1.1 What are the factors that contribute to and/or constrain the access of marginalized communities (including but not limited to women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, LGBTQI+, persons with disabilities, ethnic/religious/linguistic minorities) to meaningfully participate in civic and political life? 

1.2 What are effective prevention and mitigation interventions to address electoral violence in a way that accounts for its relationship to other types of violence, including state-sponsored violence, gender-based violence, and violence against other marginalized groups? 

1.3 Under what conditions are interventions effective at building resilience to information manipulation for different stakeholders? 

2.1 What strategies have helped and/or hindered democratically inclined parties to overcome anti-democratic incumbents? 

2.2 What are the signs that anti-corruption campaigns are being used as a political strategy to target opponents rather than a sincere interest in addressing corruption? 

2.3 In representative democracies, under what conditions is cross-party coalition formation most and least effective in enhancing issue based political competition and accountability between citizens and their representatives? 

3.1 Under which conditions are civil society and media actors more resilient to autocratic tactics to close civic space and quash dissent?  

3.2 Under what conditions is collective action of civil society actors most effective in holding government actors and institutions accountable? 

3.3 How can civil society be supported to meaningfully affect narratives or national discourse around political reforms in closed and closing spaces? 

4.1 What factors encourage parliaments to improve government transparency and accountability, and how can those factors be leveraged in strategies to foster good governance, address corruption, and counter external interference? 

4.2 Under what conditions are interventions effective to safeguard the institutional integrity of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) from politically-motivated attacks?  

4.3 Under what conditions has increased coordination and collaboration between national and sub-national governments/institutions been effective for democratic resilience in times of crisis? 

5.1 What are effective programming approaches that can be used to activate multi-stakeholder coalitions for addressing transnational corruption? 

5.2 What are effective approaches to building democratic resilience to foreign malign/illiberal influence into DRG programs? 

5.3 Under what conditions do local political and civic actors effectively leverage transnational human rights mechanisms to address rights violations?