The Democratic Governance and Rights Unit (DGRU) has completed a number of important research projects:
a review of the NCOP (commissioned by Parliament)
a study of the judiciary in Zimbabwe
a discussion document on judicial independence in Southern and East Asia
Some of the DGRU's current projects are:
Appointments' Process for Constitutional Court Judges; advocating for a process that will deliver the best possible candidates.
Judicial Ethics - helping to find a consensus about the standards for judicial behaviour on and off the bench.
African Network of Constitutional Lawyers - the DGRU is the Secretariat for the Network.
Member of the Electricity Governance Initiative - conducting research on the governance, especially the transparency, of electricity policy in South Africa.
Research on the 'right of education', as a sub-contractor to the Institute for Democratisation in Southern Africa's 'right to know, right to education' project.
Research on the 'right' to mobility, in support of the New Mobility Initiative in Cape Town.