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Database l United Nations Millennium Indicators - official data, definitions, methodologies and sources to measure progress towards the MDGs
Governance and MDG, Web Resource, Other UN AgencyThis site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The data and analyses are the product of the work of the Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG Indicators, coordinated by the United Nations Statistics Division. You will also find the official progress reports and documents...
A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development - Post-2015
Governance and MDG, Report, Other UN AgencyThe High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda today released “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,” a report which sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development. The report calls upon the world to rally around a new Global...
Industries Extractives | Africa Progress Report 2013 (en français)
Economic Governance, Governance and Environment, Report, Academic/Think TankExiste aussi en Haute résolution (4 Mo) et en anglais (Haute et basse résolution). . POur les résumé et les communiqué de presse (anglais, français, allemand et portugais) : http://africaprogresspanel.org/fr/publications1/apr2013francais/documents-telecharger/
Resource Governance Index 2013
Global Index, Land Governance, Civil SocietyThe Resource Governance Index (RGI) measures the quality of governance in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries. From highly ranked countries like Norway, the United Kingdom and Brazil to low ranking countries like Qatar, Turkmenistan and Myanmar,the Index identifies critical achievements and challenges in natural resource governance. The RGI scores and ranks the countries,...
Guide | Les indicateurs de gouvernance des organismes publics en réponse aux enjeux du développement durable
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, GovernmentCe guide vise à fournir une démarche de diagnostic de la stratégie de développement durable et de sa bonne gouvernance au sein des établissements publics et entreprises publiques. Ce diagnostic s'effectue dans un premier temps sur la base de l'identification d'un ensemble d'indicateurs de bonne gouvernance des Organisations en réponse aux enjeux du développement durable et dans un second temps...
Human Development Reports 2013
Civil Society, Report, UNDP ProducedThe 2013 Human Development Report is part of the series of global Human Development Reports published by UNDP since 1990 as independent, empirically grounded analyses of major development issues, trends and policies. The 2013 Human Development Report – "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World" – examines the profound shift in global dynamics driven by the fast-rising new powers...
Guide to Statistics in European Commission Development Co-operation
Civil Society, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis publication is a key tool for developing, assessing and evaluating aid programs. This comprehensive guide is organized in four parts, the first of which - part A - is devoted to how to use it. It refers to practical examples of statistical projects, policies and strategies that are developed throughout the rest of the guide, making it a user-friendly guide for development practitioners. ...
Empirical Survey on the Causes of the Corruption
Article / Working Paper, Academic/Think TankCet article propose d’actualiser la synthèse de la littérature empirique sur la corruption. En effet, la littérature sur l’économie de la corruption s’est fortement développée ces dernières années tant du point de vue théorique qu’empirique. Dans cet article, nous nous focalisons sur les causes de la corruption. This article suggests updating the synthesis of the empirical literature on the...
Media Development Indicators: a framework for assessing media development
Framework, Media, Other UN AgencyThis paper defines indicators of media development in line with the priority areas of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC): promotion of freedom of expression and media pluralism; development of community media; and human resource development (capacity building of media professionals and institutional capacity building). The paper suggests five major...
Getting it Right: Human Rights Impact Assessment Guide
Framework, Human Rights, Civil SocietyThis framework (online source) provides a step-by-step process for those wishing to take stock of and assess the positive and negative human rights impacts of an investment project in their community. A human rights impact assessment (HRIA) is a process to measure the gap between the human rights commitments of the state (human rights in principle) and the actual enjoyment of these rights...