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DataGov | Tracking and analyzing governance around the world
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Democracy, Economic Governance, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Public Administration, Web Resource, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe DataGov database provides country and regional scores from publicly available sources. The Database provides a user-friendly interface for accessing most of the publicly available indicators related to governance. The interactive tool permits users to easily produce cross-national comparative and time series graphs and tables for immediate printing or for export to standard office software....
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,...
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. ...
Measurement, Research and Inclusion in Public Policy of Subjective Wellbeing: Latin America.
Book, Academic/Think TankEarly in 2012, the Initiative called together a group of renowned Latin American researchers in the field of subjective wellbeing at the facilities of the Scientific and Technological Consultative Forum in Mexico City with the objective of forming a Commission to address the issues of measurement, research and inclusion in public policy in Latin America of the subjective wellbeing approach and...
Diseño de un Mapa Municipal de Riegos de Corrupcion
Corruption, Framework, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, Civil SocietyThis tool aims to identify potential risks of corruption in the areas of local government performance. It aims to show what might happen with regards to corruption in local governments, if some of the most common risks are not avoided. The tool has four parts: Literature review; Development of a preliminary version of the map, containing concepts and assumptions about the risks of...
LatinoBarómetro - Questionnaires, Codebooks & Methodology
Civil Society, Democracy, Framework, Latin America and the Carribean, Civil SocietyLatinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants. Latinobarómetro Corporation is a non-profit NGO based in Santiago, Chile, and is solely responsible for the production and publication of the data. Latinobarómetro Corporation researches the development of democracy and economies...
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...
Questionnaire on Fiscal Institutions
Corruption, Questionnaire , Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis questionnaire is designed to gather basic information on fiscal institutions and practices as a basis for review of a country's fiscal management system in relation to the revised Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency (fiscal transparency code). The questionnaire is available in seven languages. Completion of this questionnaire is an important first step in the preparation of a...