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Statistical Report for the Governance Assessments and Measurements Project for Barbados and the Eastern Carribean
Democracy, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, ReportThe UWI/UNDP DGA Assessment project emerged out of a longstanding problematique within the Eastern Caribbean, that is, the limitation and often lack of comprehensive statistical indicators of key facets of democratic governance. Such indicators are needed to guide dialogue within civil society with a view towards redesigning democratic systems to be more...
Lessons Learned: Global Programme on Governance Assessment
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, ReportOn the heels of the Oslo Governance Forum, UNDP convened projects supported by the Global Programme on Governance Assessments from around the world. This one-day workshop collected and compared the lessons learned from experiences in 16 countries. This report draws on those experiences, as well as the seven reviews and evaluations of UNDP’s governance assessments projects...
Project Review Report: How Democratic is Democracy in Chile?
Democracy, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, ReportThis report offers an overview of the UNDP-sponsored project that aims at producing a democracy audit in Chile and that is formally entitled “Governance Assessment: How Democratic is Democracy in Chile?” The report is based on a review of a comprehensive set of documents related to the project, though not the democracy audit itself. It also draws on interviews, carried in Santiago, Chile in...
Paraguay: Governance Assessments - Project Assessment
Civil Society, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Andrew Nickson This report is published by the UNDP Democratic Governance Group through the Oslo Governance Centre, with funding from the UNDP Democratic Governance Thematic Trust Fund. This publication presents the findings of the review of the DGTTF-funded project System for Monitoring and Evaluation of Democratic Governance in Paraguay. The project was implemented over 15...
Cuan Democratica es la Democracia en Chile: Informe de Actividades y Base de Datos
Democracy, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, UNDP Produced, Other UN Agency, Civil SocietyUNDEF/IDEA Evaluación de la Calidad de la Democracia en Chile . ¿Qué tan democrática es la democracia chilena? Activities report of the International IDEA and UNDP-supported Chile Democracy Project at the end of March 2010 and basic set of indicators (in Spanish)
The Role of Think Tanks and Research Institutes for More National Ownership and Alignment of Evidence to Policy
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Noha El-Mikawy This OGC discussion paper, written is the outcome report of the conference organized by UNDP OGC with support from IDRC Canada entitled: Evidence on Governance into Policy: The Role of Research Institutes and Think Tanks, January 18 and 19 2009. The conference was organized as a side-event of the Information and Decision Support Center IDSC International...
Governance Evidence in Peru: Production and Use in the Education Sector
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Jorge Aragon and Martin Vegas This OGC discussion paper presents a case study that aims to draw some lessons about the main challenges for evidence-based policy and governance in Peru. The paper was presented at the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre & Canadian IDRC Event: Evidence on Governance into Policy, The Role of Research Institutes and Think Tanks, Jan 18-19...
Evidence-Informed Policy in Post-Conflict Contexts: Nepal, Peru and Serbia
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Conflict, Europe and CIS, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Nicola Jones and Arnaldo Pellini This OGC discussion paper summarises case studies from Nepal, Peru and Serbia, three diverse post-conflict contexts on the production and use of governance evidence at both the general and sectoral levels. It served as a background document to the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre & Canadian IDRC Event: Evidence on Governance into...
Pro-Poor Governance and the Policy Process: A Framework
GAP, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, UNDP ProducedThis framework serves as a tool for assessing the extent to which policy making processes are pro-poor and to help in diagnosing the necessary corrective actions for enhancing poverty sensitivity of policy processes. The framework is applied to experiences of participatory budgeting in Latin America. This paper provides a conceptual framework for assessing the pro-poor characteristics of policy...
Mapping of Corruption and Governance Measurement Tools in Latin American Countries
Corruption, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, UNDP ProducedThis mapping provides guidance to uses and limitations of nearly 100 different international, national and local tools for measuring corruption in 17 countries in Latin America. The scope of this mapping, commissioned to Transparency International (TI) by the UNDP, is to identify and present the international, national and local tools that measure corruption and good governance in Latin America....