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Report | WJP Rule of Law Index
Justice, Report, Civil SocietyThe WJP Rule of Law Index® is an innovative quantitative assessment tool designed by the World Justice Project offering a detailed and comprehensive picture of the extent to which countries adhere to the rule of law in practice. It provides original data regarding a variety of dimensions of the rule of law, enabling the assessment of a nation’s adherence to the rule of law in practice, identify...
NDI's Standard-based Questionnaire - Towards the Development of International Standards for the Functioning of Democratic
Justice, Questionnaire , Civil SocietyThe questionnaire allows respondents to compare their legislature to the norms and basic functions of other democratic legislatures, and identify best practices and lessons learned. It provides a comprehensive checklist which can be used as a diagnostic tool to assess legislative procedures, both in formal and 'in practice'. The questionnaire consists of two-part questions. The first...
Framework: Global Best Practices - A Model Annual State of the Parliament Report
Framework, Justice, Parliament, Civil SocietyAuthors/Editors: Keith Henderson The objective of this working white paper is to present a strategic monitoring and reporting framework that can be used by all stakeholders to ensure that parliaments have the capacity, independence and support necessary to fulfill their constitutional responsibilities to both the government and the people they are supposed to represent. This paper is primarily...
Judicial Transparency Checklist
Corruption, Justice, Questionnaire , Civil SocietyAuthors/Editors: Keith Henderson, Violaine Autheman, Sandra Elena, Luis Ramirez-Daza & Carlos Hinojosa The following checklist/ search questions is/are intended to provide multiple constituencies, such as judges, reformers, civil society, researchers and donors, with many of the key indicators needed to assess, report and monitor the level of transparency of judiciaries and judicial...
Questionnaire: Etude sur la performance et le fonctionnement de la justice militaire: Fiche technique et terms de reference
Africa, Corruption, Justice, Questionnaire , Civil SocietyQuestionnaire developed for evaluation of the military justice system in DR Congo, Africa. Areas covered in the questionnaire includes the following: Legal and Institutional Framework Jurisdiction of Military Tribunals Operation and Performance of Military Tribunals Independence of Military Judges Fair Trail
Questionnaire: Justice Sector and the Rule of Law
Africa, Justice, Questionnaire , Civil SocietyThis open ended questionnaire is designed to feed into reports on government performance in the area of justice and the rule of law. The reports not only document the main institutional issues surrounding independence of the judiciary, government respect for court orders etc; but also evaluate the usefulness of the justice system to ordinary citizens. Areas covered in the questionnaire...
State of the Union Ghana Report 2010
Africa, Civil Society, Corruption, Democracy, Justice, Local Governance and Decentralization, Parliament, Report, Civil SocietyProduced by the State of the Union project, this 2010 report is one of ten country studies that assess the performance of Member States against key governance, economic, social, civil and political policy standards, and rights instruments. Although a historical approach has been used, the period under review is 2007-2009. Further details on the methodology can be found in the appendices...
Morocco Rule of Law Assessment
Africa, Justice, Report, Civil SocietyRule of law reform in Morocco over the past decade has primarily involved creation of the administrative and commercial courts, creation of an independent judicial training institution that provides initial and continuing legal education for judges, and passage of laws enhancing human rights protections. While some improvements have occurred, including the adoption of a new family law in...
AfriMAP’s Assessment of the Justice Sector and the Rule of Law in Namibia (ppt)
Africa, Justice, Presentation, Civil SocietyPresentation delivered by Dr Oliver C Ruppel, Human Rights and Documentation Centre [HRDC], Namibia, to the workshop on Country-led Governance Assessments in Namibia, 2009.
Getting Away With Murder: CPJ’s 2010 Impunity Index
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Justice, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis is the third year CPJ has published its Impunity Index, which calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of a country’s population. In compiling the index, CPJ examined journalist murders in every nation in the world for the years 2000 through 2009. Cases are considered unsolved when no convictions have been obtained. Only those nations with five or...