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Author(s): Del Sarto, Raffaella A.; Schumacher, Tobias; Lannon, Erwan; Driss, Ahmed

Publisher: (2006) EuroMeSCo:Lisbon [Portugal]

Pages: 1-69

This report aims to critically assess the EU’s objective of introducing a benchmarking process in the realm of human rights and democratic development within its Mediterranean policy. It first discusses some conceptual and analytical difficulties related to ‘benchmarking’ human rights and democratic governance and goes on to discuss how this takes place within the Euro-Mediterranean context. The report analyses the ‘first round’ of ENP Action Plans concluded with the Mediterranean partner states and their value for benchmarking. Considering the conceptual and practical flaws of these Action Plans, the report proposes a phased process for the conceptualisation of democratisation. For each of these phases, the report identifies a number of criteria that characterise the phase. Subsequently, it is proposed how these criteria could be translated into indicators and a matrix is proposed with indicators for monitoring for each phase, which should facilitate the benchmarking process. The report concludes with a number of recommendations.

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English	PDF document	Benchmarking democratic development in the Euro-Mediterranean area: Conceptualising ends, means and strategies