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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...
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...
Impact Evaluations and Development: NONIE Guidance on Impact Evaluations
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe purpose of NONIE is to promote more and better impact evaluations among its members. Issues relating to evaluations in general are more effectively dealt with in the parent networks, and are thus not the primary focus of NONIE. NONIE will focus on sharing of methods and learning-by-doing to promote the practice of IE (impact evaluation). The current Guidance document was developed for...
Assessing the quality of democracy: a practical guide
Democracy, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Civil SocietyIncreasingly, governmental, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organisations emphasise that democracy is an end in itself, as well as an important means to other ends, such as economic development, poverty reduction and greater protection of internationally recognised human rights. This guide seeks to provide a user-friendly knowledge resource for those seeking to improve...
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2009 - Codebook
Democracy, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, Civil SocietyThis is a code book to measure the need and capacity for reform using sustainable governance indicators in a given country. It breaks down the main indicators into status of democracy, economic and policy-specific performance, executive capacity and executive accountability and assigns them status indexes. Under each of these main indicators, are sub-indicators which are...
Donor approaches to Governance Assessments 2009: Sourcebook
Civil Society, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis sourcebook is intended to help agency staff, partner country stakeholders and practitioners in their work on governance assessments, in which donor aid agencies are actively involved. It is divided into two parts. The first part explains why donors assess governance, what they assess and how they assess while the second provides an overview of the tools and methodologies that aid agencies...
International guidelines on decentralisation and the strengthening of local authorities
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Local Governance and Decentralization, Other UN AgencyThese UN-Habitat guidelines are in line with making the international dialogue on decentralization as open-ended and inclusive as possible. They are aimed at forging consensus among member states on decentralization policies in the development process. A number of developed and developing countries are involved in streamlining functions, redefining decision-making...
The System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration
Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyThe System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration (SIEI) under the auspices of the Eurasian Development Bank consists of nine general and two consolidated indices that are aimed at assessing integration in the post-Soviet region, and cover various aspects of the regional integration process. The SIEI is built around several sets of indicators, including the integration of trade and labour...
Guideline for the Collection of Data on Trafficking in Human Beings Including Comparable Indicators
Corruption, Europe and CIS, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Human Rights, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis publication contains the findings of the project Development of Guidelines for the Collection of Data on Trafficking in Human Beings, Including Comparable Indicators implemented by the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Austria in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration in Vienna. The project was carried out with generous financial support from the European...