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The Oslo Principles on Democratic Governance Assessments
GAP, Policy Document, Academic/Think Tank, UNDP Produced, UN Women, Other UN Agency, Civil SocietyIn early October 2011, the Oslo Governance Forum gathered 270 policy makers, experts and practitioners from 75 countries to engage in a rigorous investigation of the principles and pragmatics underpinning democratic governance assessments. The Forum was convened by UNDP’s Democratic Governance Group in partnership with a broad coalition of stakeholders, including UNDEF, ActionAid, Act Alliance,...
Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility
Conflict, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Users' Guide, Academic/Think Tank, UNDP ProducedState fragility has become a buzzword in international development policy, leading to a dramatic explosion in the production of indices to rank countries according to levels of fragility. Despite this proliferation, no systematic analysis of such indices has yet been produced. The Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility aims to meet this need by providing a rigorous, comprehensible and...
The Challenges of Making Governance Assessment Nationally Owned
GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Presentation, Academic/Think TankThis keynote speech by Prof. Goran Hyden, Distinguished Professor at the Unviersity of Florida, at the UNDP and CMI Bergen seminar in 2007 on Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration, deals with conceptual, political, institutional and operational issues of making assessments more nationally owned and attuned to local interests and needs.
Measurement Methodologies for Legal Empowerment of the Poor
Article / Working Paper, GAP, Justice, Academic/Think Tank, UNDP ProducedThis paper draws on existing methodologies and theoretical frameworks and argues that a narrowly defined, subject-centric approach to measurement of legal empowerment is key to the monitoring of progress towards legally empowering the poor. It argues that broad macroeconomic indicators and topdown assessments are fundamentally incapable of examining important aspects. In the summer of 2008...
Rapid Assessment Report on Governance Indicators Sources and Use in the Philippines
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Academic/Think Tank, UNDP ProducedThe report identifies and maps existing governance indicators sources in the country, and assesses the extent to which policy makers make use of them. This report covers the results of the survey involving 50-150 policy/decision makers to assess the extent to which governance indicators are being used and whether there are differences on how sources are applied at various levels of government....
Governance Indicators in the Philippines: A Users' Guide
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Users' Guide, Academic/Think Tank, UNDP ProducedThis guide provides basic information on various institutions engaged in establishing and identifying governance indicators generally used in the Philippines. The guide is also useful for matching the supply of indicators with political demand. This Users’ Guide provides basic information on various institutions engaged in establishing and identifying governance indicators generally...