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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...
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...
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...
Mapping a Political Context - A Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations
Civil Society, Framework, Academic/Think TankEditors/Authors: Robert Nash, Alan Hudson & Cecilia Luttrell This toolkit describes a range of tools that CSOs might use to understand and map political context, in order to engage more effectively in policy processes. The guide introduces a series of tools that have been designed to map various dimensions of political context. The tools have been selected because they cover a wide variety...
WGA - Governance Perceptions Questionnaire - 2005
Civil Society, Local Governance and Decentralization, Questionnaire , Academic/Think TankCreators/Authors: Goran Hyden, Julius Court and Kenneth Mease The World Governance Assessment uses a standard closed ended questionnaire to capture subjective perceptions on governance at the national level. The questionnaire contains 42 questions, divided into seven parts, covering rules throughout the governance realm, ones that are thought to affect the legitimacy of the polity at large and...
WGA - Governance Perceptions Questionnaire - 2001
Civil Society, Local Governance and Decentralization, Questionnaire , Academic/Think TankEditors/Authors: Goran Hyden, Julius Court and Kenneth Mease The World Governance Assessment uses a standard closed ended questionnaire to capture subjective perceptions on governance at the national level. The questionnaire contains 41 questions, divided into seven parts, covering rules throughout the governance realm, ones that are thought to affect the legitimacy of the polity at large...
Human Rights & Governance Assessments: Standards, Principles and Indicators(ppt)
Asia and the Pacific, Human Rights, Presentation, Academic/Think TankPresentation delivered at a workshop on the Oslo Governance Forum on Democratic Governance Assessments for Social Accountability, in Oslo 2011.
ScienceDirect.com - Cities - Designing good urban governance indicators: The importance of citizen participation and its evaluation in Greater Vancouver
Article / Working Paper, Academic/Think TankThose developing good urban governance indicators face at least four major challenges: concept definition, measure choice, sample choice and indicator evaluation. While data collection and manipulation are often of primary concern, normative considerations are at least equally important insofar as they establish which indicators best represent ‘good’ urban governance and the standards by which...
The Metrics of Human Rights: Complementarities of the Human Development and Capabilities Approach
Human Rights, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyCapabilities and human rights are closely related and share common commitments to freedom and justice as central political objectives. Much of the literature on this relationship has focused on defining the overlaps and differences between them as theoretical concepts. This paper explores a different aspect of the relationship, namely the overlaps and differences in their respective measurement...
Measuring the Progressive Realization of Economic and Social Human Rights in Brazil: A Disaggregated Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Indexi
Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Academic/Think TankThis paper summarizes findings and conclusions from our application of the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index developed by Fukuda-Parr, Lawson-Remer and Randolph (2009) to the states of Brazil. The key features of this methodology in assessing economic and human rights fulfillment is the focus on state obligations rather than only on human outcomes, and reference to both level of...