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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...
Blurring the Boundaries - Citizen Action Across States and Societies
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Academic/Think Tank, DonorBlurring the Boundaries - Citizen Action Across States and Societies provides a summary of nearly a decade of research on citizen engagement done by the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (the Citizenship DRC). The brief note Blurring the Boundaries - Citizen Action Across States and Societies has been produced by the Development Research Centre on...
Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries
Civil Society, Global Index, Human Rights, Academic/Think Tank60 years ago the Universal Declaration of Human Rights laid the foundations for the right to the highest attainable standard of health. This right is central to the creation of equitable health systems. This paper seeks to identify some of the right-to-health features of health systems, such as a comprehensive national health plan, and proposes 72 indicators that...
What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Human Rights, Justice, Academic/Think TankThis journal article from the European Journal of Development Research discusses the ‘construct validity’ of qualitative measurement techniques that policymakers and researchers use, as they focus more on the question of the impact of governance in economic development. A number of measures of the quality of governance have been created. Among these are the...
Indicators: Levels, Types, Existing and New (ppt)
Civil Society, Local Governance and Decentralization, Presentation, Academic/Think TankPrepared by Ken Mease, this powerpoint presentation held at the Workshop on Governance Assessment Methods and Applications of Governance Data in Policy-Making (Cairo June 2009), looks at indicators more closely, and discusses definitions of indicators, macro and micro levels for constructing indicators, different advantages of de jure and de facto indicators, triangulation, indexes versus scales...