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Book: Redefining "Urban"
Book, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis publication presents a new OECD methodology for defining “urban,” one that enables cross-country comparison of the socioeconomic and environmental performance of metropolitan areas. It applies this methodology to twenty-seven OECD countries, and it includes case studies of urbanization dynamics in China, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
Building Better Policies: The Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring and Evaluation
Book, Inter-Governmental Organization, Donor[...] This book is useful to anyone who cares about the quality of public policies and who wants to learn and understand how public policies and programs can be shaped with the objective of improving people’s welfare. You might be interested in setting development goals and specific targets for development outcomes for a specific country, province, city, or sectoral entity, and in the techniques...
The Work of Domestic Election Observer Groups Around the World
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Book, Civil Society, Electoral Systems, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyAuthors/Editors: Paul O’Grady, Rafael Lopez-Pintor, & Mark Stevens Civil society is a vitally important outlet for democratic activity and civil society groups are central partners in the promotion and defence of democratic development – from Latin America to Asia and from Europe to Africa. The aim of this publication is to highlight the work done by domestic election observers around the...
Governing the metropolis: principles and cases
Book, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think Tank, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis book is based on a study that analysed recent advances in research and practice on the management of metropolitan areas in Latin America. It discusses options to improve democratic governance of the territories under the jurisdiction of diverse sub-national governments and identifies different ways to tackle the fiscal problems they face. It brings out the...
Gender Disparities in Africa’s Labor Market
Africa, Book, Governance and Gender, Governance and MDG, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyThe book, “Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market,” analyzes household survey data from 18 African countries to establish gender dynamics that impact work-related indicators such as employment, unemployment, sector of activity, and pay gap. Gender equality is one of the Millennium Development Goals and a key target laid out by many African governments in their...
Accountability and Transparency: A Guide for State Ownership
Book, Civil Society, Corruption, Parliament, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationUsing this Guide, published by OECD, will facilitate the practical implementation of the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in the areas of transparency and accountability. It provides viable policy options and a step-by-step road map on how to address typical difficulties, risks and hurdles that may be encountered. It also provides concrete...
From Policies to Result: Developing national capacities for country monitoring and evaluation systems
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Book, Latin America and the Carribean, Inter-Governmental Organization, UNDP Produced, Other UN AgencyThis publication aims to contribute to the international debate on moving from policies to results through country-led monitoring and evaluation systems, by providing new analysis on strengthening country monitoring and evaluation capacities. With the aim of sharing good practices and lessons learned on this strategic issue, UNICEF, in partnership with UNDP, WFP, UNIFEM, ILO...
Social Accountability in Africa
Africa, Book, Civil Society, Conflict, Governance and Gender, Governance and MDG, Local Governance and Decentralization, Media, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyThe publication is intended to serve as a knowledge resource to support policy-makers, public policy practitioners, law-makers, public institutions, public managers, the research and academic community, civil society, donor organisations, international and multilateral development agencies and all those actively involved and concerned with the subject of the ‘governance-accountability...
Demanding Good Governance: Lessons from Social Accountability Initiatives in Africa
Africa, Book, Civil Society, Democracy, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Political Parties, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietySocial accountability refers to the wide range of citizen actions to hold the state to account, as well as actions on the part of government, media, and other actors that promote or facilitate these efforts. Social accountability strategies and tools help empower ordinary citizens to exercise their inherent rights to hold governments accountable for the use of public funds and how they exercise...