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Commentary: Democracy declined worldwide in 2011 with Arab Spring at risk, watchdog says
19 September 2012 | commentary, press coverage, reportWASHINGTON -- Democratic governance declined throughout the world in 2011, showing that gains made in the Middle East and North Africa during the Arab Spring are very fragile and in its chaotic...
2012 Democratic Audit: British democracy in 'terminal decline'
09 July 2012 | audit, commentary, data, nat initiative, press coverage, united kingdomPolitical inequality in the UK is 'widening rapidly' warns 2012 Democratic Audit report. Read on for the key statistics • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian Share 36...
Nigeria: Governors’ Score Card: Akpabio, Amaechi, Fashola are the outstanding governors
08 June 2012 | citizen monitoring, local governance, press coverage, scorecardWith the little expectation from the local government administrations, and a seeming far-away Federal Government, the bulk of expectations from the people fall on the 36 state governors of the...
Philippines: Five CAR provinces among top 10 in Good Governance Index (Cordillera News Portal, 6 april 2011)
06 April 2011 | country assessment, local governance, philippines, press coverageBAGUIO CITY, April 1 - The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) recently released the interim provincial and municipal Good Governance Index (GGI) for the years 2005 and 2008. The GGI is...
Launch: Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) 2010 (Look At Vietnam, 4 April 2011)
04 April 2011 | asia pacific, country assessment, launch, press coverage, public admin, undp-supported, vietnamViet Nam’s first index measuring the performance of governance and public administration which was compiled from interviews with the public was released yesterday, March 31. “The Viet Nam...
India’s social audit of schemes draws world attention (Indian Express, 2 Nov 2010)
02 November 2010 | citizen monitoring, commentary, participatory mechanisms, press coverage, social accountabilityIf Brazil has its Bolsa Familia, and Mexico its Progresa — schemes for alleviating poverty that have caught the fancy of international organisations — something that India has done recently is making...
RT @Integrilicious: Our Integrity Indicators in action; a columnist does her own Global Integrity-style assessment in Trinidad & Tobago (@globalintegrity, 2 Nov 2010)
02 November 2010 | commentary, press coverage, twitterGlobalIntegrity RT @Integrilicious: Our Integrity...
Blogpost: The Best Known Corruption Index May Have Run its Course (The Economist, 28 Oct 2010)
29 October 2010 | commentary, corruption, global index, press coverageCORRUPTION takes many forms; in some countries it is blatant, in others it is barely visible. So the idea that it can quantified on a simple scale is appealing; it gives the impression that an...
Lesotho: Newspaper Launches Cabinet ministers’ performance audit (Public Eye Online, 4 Oct 2010)
04 October 2010 | executive, initiative, press coverage, social accountability…The Cabinet Audits that we are presenting are being made against the backdrop of very little official information to gauge the work of the different ministries. While there is very little one can...
Free Satellite Imagery has Boosted Deforestation Monitoring (Mungabay, 1 Oct 2010)
01 October 2010 | forestry, press coverage, technologySource: Mongabay -- In recent years there has been an explosion in the number of satellite-based monitoring applications. These new applications are vital to constructing historical baselines for...