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Poland: Developing Good Governance Indicators for Programmes Funded by the European Union
Europe and CIS, Framework, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis report proposes a practical, country-based framework for developing good governance indicators for programmes funded by the European Union.
Citizen-Centric Governance Indicators: Measuring and Monitoring Governance by Listening to the People
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Academic/Think TankThis paper discusses governance indicators purporting to measure various aspects of governance quality. It argues that if governance assessments have to be useful for policy purposes, they must conceptualize governance and provide uniform and consistent criteria for measuring governance across countries and over time. The first section discusses the conceptual issues in measuring governance...
Measuring Governance
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe use of governance indicators, as applied to developing countries, has grown spectacularly in recent years. Following the maxim that you cannot manage what you cannot measure, international investors and official development aid agencies, together with academics and the media, have turned widely to using quantitative governance indicators for both analytical and decision-making purposes –...
Review report on Beyond GDP indicators
Civil Society, Report, Academic/Think TankThe central assumption of the BRAINPOoL project is that indicators, if effectively embedded in the policy making process, are an effective transmission mechanism to connect research and policy. The creation of ‘Beyond GDP’ indicators can be seen as key to re-orienting policy, in turning an otherwise unfocused desire for change into concrete plans. In this project ‘Beyond GDP indicators’ are...
Human Rights Indicators - Indicators to promote and monitor the implementation of human rights
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Human Rights, Other UN AgencyThe Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has published Human Rights Indicators: A Guide to Measurement and Implementation. The publication aims to assist in developing quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure progress in the implementation of international human rights norms and principles. The Guide describes the conceptual and methodological framework for human...
Examining the State: a Foucauldian perspective on international ‘governance indicators’
Article / Working Paper, Civil SocietyThis paper offers a critical perspective on the growing phenomenon of governance indicators in international politics. I employ a governmentality approach to shed light on the political meanings and outcomes of the increasing tendency of various international actors to rate and rank the governance capacities and performances of states. In particular, I argue that, beyond being an analytic tool...
Publish What You Fund I Aid Transparency Index 2012
Civil Society, Corruption, Global Index, Global IntegrityAid is becoming more transparent, but progress is slow and uneven. This report finds that aid can be made much more transparent without great difficulty, when political commitment is translated into effective implementation. Transparent aid means information being shared openly in a timely, comprehensive, comparable and accessible way. The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)...
Measuring well-being I different approaches, their implications and an illustration | Development Progress
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Academic/Think TankThis Project Note examines three methods of measuring progress that allow us to compare the performance of different countries. It argues that the methods we employ to measure progress matter, illustrating the diverse results that are generated in a comparison of performance in East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The note summarises how the findings inform the measurement component of ODI’s...
2012-IIAG-summary-report.
Africa, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Civil SocietyThis is the sixth year in which we have measured governance outcomes in Africa, looking at both country and regional performances across four major categories – Safety & Rule of Law, Participation & Human Rights, Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human Development – and 88 component indicators. Once again, the data point to some important findings that can assist leaders and citizens...
World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE)
Web Resource, Civil SocietyThe World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) highlights the powerful influence of circumstances, such as wealth, gender, ethnicity and location, over which people have little control but which play an important role in shaping their opportunities for education and wider life chances. It draws attention to unacceptable levels of education inequality across countries and between groups within...