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Measuring Progress toward Safety and Justice:A Global Guide to the Design of Performance Indicators across the Justice Sector
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Academic/Think TankThis guide is written for programme managers responsible for improving the delivery of safety, security, and access to justice in any part of the world. It should also be useful to a wide variety of government officials and to anyone interested in pursuing a disciplined course of institutional reform in the safety and justice sector. The guide does not prescribe the use of...
Report on Assessment, Transparency and Accountability in the Montenegrin Governance System
Report, DonorThis study describes the purpose, methodology and findings of a pilot assessment of Montenegro's progress in achieving the political dimensions of the Copenhagen Criteria. It focuses on the extent to which the governance system in Montenegro is transparent and accountable, and therefore, focuses on the ability of governance institutions to guarantee democracy, the rule of law, human rights...
Mapping and Capacity Assessment of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Dafur
Africa, Conflict, Report, UNDP ProducedThis publication, prepared by "Partners in Development Services", is part of the background material for the The Oslo Governance Forum (OGF). The OGF took place on 3-5 October 2011, and was organised by the UNDP’s Democratic Governance Group in collaboration with United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), ActionAid, ACT Alliance, World Bank Institute and PRIA Global Partnership. The Forum focused...
Indonesia Country Assessment: The Asia-Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Human Rights, Justice, Report, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Ana Patricia Graça and Andrea Davis This report presents the assessment findings of the DGTTFsupported Indonesia project Strengthening Access to Justice and the Rule of Law (A2J Assessment Project). The country study is an assessment and not a project evaluation. It provides an overall analytic review of results, rather than an evaluation of progress. It aims mostly to...
Economic Rights in the Land of Plenty: Monitoring State Fulfillment of Economic and Social Rights Obligations in the United States
Academic/Think Tank, Civil Society'This paper uses the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment, ESRF, Index proposed by Randolph, Fukuda-Parr, and Lawson-Remer (Fukuda-Parr et al 2009, Randolph et al 2009) to quantitatively assess the extent to which the United States fulfills the economic and social rights obligations enunciated in the UDHR, ICESCR, and consistent with the “second bill of rights”. Three questions structure...
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...
Good Governance for Medicines - A Framework for Good Governance in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Corruption, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Other UN AgencyThe Good Governance for Medicines (GGM) programme focuses on the fundamental need to have laws, regulations, policies and procedures in place to improve management of pharmaceutical systems and create a corrupt-free environment to promote access to good quality medicines. Its primary emphasis is on prevention of future corruption and on improving systems. This leaflet summarizes a policy...
Measuring Transparency in the Public Pharmaceutical Sector - Assessment Instrument
Corruption, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Other UN AgencyAuthors/editors: Dr Guitelle Baghdadi‐Sabeti, Dr Jillian Clare Cohen‐Kohler & Mr Eshetu Wondemagegnehu. The World Bank has identified corruption as the single greatest obstacle to social and economic development, keeping millions of people trapped in poverty. Labelled a "cancer" by the same organization, it is a cross‐sectoral problem affecting the public and private sectors alike. It...
Development divide vs digital divide – cross country study
Report, Academic/Think TankThe paper presents most recent estimates on the field of cross national digital gaps, in terms of application new information and communication technologies. The author proposes a way of measurement of the digital gaps among countries. The methodology is mainly based on the taxonomy principles, using the notion of the n-dimension metrics. Additionally, there are some dynamics of ICTs usage and...
Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility
Conflict, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Users' Guide, Academic/Think Tank, UNDP ProducedState fragility has become a buzzword in international development policy, leading to a dramatic explosion in the production of indices to rank countries according to levels of fragility. Despite this proliferation, no systematic analysis of such indices has yet been produced. The Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility aims to meet this need by providing a rigorous, comprehensible and...