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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.
Measurement, Research and Inclusion in Public Policy of Subjective Wellbeing: Latin America.
Book, Academic/Think TankEarly in 2012, the Initiative called together a group of renowned Latin American researchers in the field of subjective wellbeing at the facilities of the Scientific and Technological Consultative Forum in Mexico City with the objective of forming a Commission to address the issues of measurement, research and inclusion in public policy in Latin America of the subjective wellbeing approach and...
Impact 2.0: New mechanisms for linking research and policy
Book, Academic/Think TankThis book features case studies and reports on the use of “web 2.0″ and social networking applications and services to increase the impact of research on policy in Latin America. During 2010 and 2011 Fundación Comunica, with funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada) and assistance from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), supported a series of...
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...
Dumping on women : gender and privatisation of waste management
Africa, Book, Governance and Gender, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis book is based on research conducted in the South African municipalities of Thabazimbi, Sol Plaatje and Johannesburg. The aim of the research was to find out how privatization of waste management services affected men and women differently and if privatization makes it harder for municipalities to promote equity between women and men. The Introduction explains the research and some of the key...
A Democratic Audit of the European Union (One Europe or Several?)
Book, Academic/Think TankPublisher's Product Description This path-breaking book adapts to the case of the European Union a method of democracy assessment first used by Stuart Weir and David Beetham in their Democratic Audit of the United Kingdom. The result is to throw down a double challenge to generalizations about a democratic deficit in the European Union. On the one hand, the book shows how standards of...
Squaring Governance Assessments with the Accountability Agenda
Book, GAP, UNDP ProducedThis publication is part of the background material for the The Oslo Governance Forum (OGF). The OGF took place on 3-5 October 2011, and was organised by the UNDP’s Democratic Governance Group in collaboration with United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), ActionAid, ACT Alliance, World Bank Institute and PRIA Global Partnership. The Forum focused on participatory governance assessments and...
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...
African Solutions: Best Practices from the African Peer Review Mechanism
Book, Civil SocietyA new book released by the South African Institute of International Affairs and published by Jacana Media examines the governance success stories of a number of African states. Entitled “African Solutions: Best Practices from the African Peer Review Mechanism”, the book is the outcome of research into the policies, programmes and experiences identified as “best practices” from the first 12...
Making the State Responsive: Experience with Democratic Governance Assessments
Book, GAP, UNDP Produced, Civil SocietyThe purpose of this book is to take stock of what has happened to governance and governance assessments over the past two decades. There have been significant changes in both theory and practice. At the theoretical level, the most notable shift has been toward treating governance as regime management. This has meant a greater emphasis on the ‘rules of the game’ and on the political...