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Citizens' Feedback on Service Delivery - For Acceleration of the Millennium Development Goals (ppt)
Asia and the Pacific, Governance and MDG, Presentation, UNDP ProducedPresentation delivered at a workshop on the Oslo Governance Forum on Democratic Governance Assessments for Social Accountability, in Oslo 2011 In this PowerPoint, the Regional Director of the Asia and Pacific UN Millennium Campaign, Minar Pimple, presents citizens feedback as a tool to measure service delivery.
Human Development Report 2010
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, UNDP ProducedThis year’s Report celebrates the contributions of the human development approach, which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our changing world and finding ways to improve people’s well-being. Indeed, human development is an evolving idea—not a fixed, static set of precepts—and as the world changes, analytical tools and concepts evolve. So this Report is...
World Development Indicators 2010
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe World Development Indicators (WDI) 2010 is a comprehensive overview of development. It is the statistical benchmark that helps measure the progress of development. The WDI database, launched along with the World Bank’s Open Data initiative to provide free data to all users, includes more than 900 indicators documenting the state of all the world’s economies....
Basic Capabilities Index 2009
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Civil SocietySocial Watch developed theBasic Capabilities Index (BCI) as an instrument to monitor the evolution of basic indicators and make comparisons between and within countries. This is a summary-index that compares and classifies countries according to their progress in social development by evaluating their situation in terms of minimum basic capabilities – structural dimensions that...
The Bhutanese experience of MDG needs assessment and costing (ppt)
Asia and the Pacific, Governance and MDG, Presentation, UNDP ProducedPresentation delivered to the 2007 workshop on Measuring and Assessing Democratic Governance in Bangkok.
Assessing democratic governance in Mongolia (ppt)
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Governance and MDG, PresentationPresentation delivered to the 2007 workshop on Measuring and Assessing Democratic Governance in Bangkok.
Tracking development and governance in the Pacific
Asia and the Pacific, Governance and MDG, Report, GovernmentAchieving effective and accountable governance is essential for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report addresses development and governance in the Pacific region where development partners have injected significant assistance. However, most Pacific governments are not managing the aid well enough. The report shows resources are not sufficiently prioritized in...
Governance assessment: overview of governance assessment frameworks and results from the 2006 World Governance Assessment
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Report, Civil SocietyThis report presents the summary of discussions at the ODI Learning Workshop-2007 on governance assessments. Discussions focus on the way in which the World Governance Assessment (WGA) could further contribute to country-level processes, including the shaping of a country agenda for improving governance and links between the WGA and other processes. Issues covered include: The extent...
Global Education Digest 2010: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Governance and Gender, Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Other UN AgencyThe 2010 edition of the Global Education Digest focuses on gender and education to mark the 15th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women. It explores the changing patterns in gender and schooling throughout the formal education system – from primary to tertiary education levels. The analysis draws on data that are presented in the GED Statistical Tables as well...
Human Development Measurement: A broader approach in India
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankIn this paper, the author attempts to assess economic development more specifically, how can we measure economic development in human aspects? The question had been asked and argued for several years. Human development concept and its index gives answer for these questions. This article aims to depict the concept of human development and its measurement especially in the Indian context....