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Oslo Governance Centre 2012: A Year in Review
Civil Society, Conflict, Democracy, GAP, Governance and Environment, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, ReportThis document looks back at 2012 and highlights the work of UNDP's Oslo Governance Centre, including new areas of work in support of UNDP’s results in Democratic Governance at country, regional and global level.
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...
Review Report of UNDP Support to the Project for Capacity Building for Good Governance in Senegal
Africa, GAP, ReportThis review has been undertaken to inform the Mid-term Review of the Global Programme on Governance Assessments run by UNDP’s Oslo Governance Centre (OGC). This exercise therefore is limited to an assessment of the relevance, quality, timeliness and outputs of the OGC’s support with a view to improving the next phase. It is not an evaluation of the Programme National de Bonne Gouvernance (PNBG),...
The Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) 2011
GAP, Report, Civil Society, GovernmentThe Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) provides objective, evidence-based measures of provincial performance in governance, public administration, and public service delivery. It also sheds light on analytical issues that need policy consideration at the national level.Given the increasing demand for objective information; improved transparency and...
Tajikistan: Local Governance and Decentralisation - A project Assessment
Europe and CIS, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Tomislav Novovic This report contains the findings of a review of three projects, funded by the Democratic Governance Thematic Trust Fund (DGTTF), in Tajikistan in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The projects were part of UNDP’s broad efforts to support the development of local governance and provide assistance to regional development in Tajikistan. The review examined the projects’...
Montenegro - Governance Assessments Project Assessment
Europe and CIS, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, UNDP ProducedAuthor: Harry Garnett This report’s findings are the result of an assessment of a DGTTF-funded project, Assessing and Monitoring the State of Governance in the Context of European Integration in Montenegro. The project, which took place in 2008 with a DGTTF grant of $150,000, plus $20,000 from the Country Office, included workshop design, implementation of a qualitative assessment and the...
China - Governance Assessments Project Assessment
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, ReportAuthors/Editors: Harry Garnett The project Support for the Development of a Governance Assessment Framework in China (2008) aimed to build a broad consensus on governance assessment, and establish a governance assessment framework in accordance with the realities of political development in China and based on the latest international research on governance assessments. The objective of this...
FYR Macedonia: Local Governance and Decentralisation
Civil Society, Europe and CIS, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Tomislav Novovic The findings presented in this report are the result of an assessment conducted by an independent consultant on two DGTTF funded projects in FYR of Macedonia in 2005 and 2007. The projects were part of UNDP’s broader efforts to support decentralized governance through assistance to inter-municipal cooperation and to regional development. The methodology...