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What do corruption indices measure?
16 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Corruption, Academic/Think TankThis paper presents empirical evidence that the most widely used indices to measure corruption might be biased in systematic ways...
So What Difference Does it Make? Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement
25 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Democracy, Academic/Think TankOver the last two decades, the idea that citizen engagement and participation can contribute to improved governance and development outcomes...
Data-driven journalism: What is there to learn?
09 December 2010 | Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis collection of resources presents an overview of data-driven journalism: what it is today and what it might become in the future....
What Makes a Good Governance Indicator
30 June 2011 | Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThe brief on good governance indicators from the Policy Practice is a easily digestible and readable source of information for...
USHAHIDI: You Map What You Want(ppt)
26 April 2012 | Civil SocietyPresentation delivered on the The Africa Forum on Civil Society and Governance Assessments, in Dakar 2011.
What Difference does a Policy Brief Make?
11 October 2012 | Article / Working Paper, Academic/Think Tank3ie and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in collaboration with Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), explored the...
Publish What You Fund I Aid Transparency Index 2012
26 October 2012 | Civil Society, Corruption, Global Index, Global IntegrityAid is becoming more transparent, but progress is slow and uneven. This report finds that aid can be made much more transparent without great...
Reap What You Sow: Greed and Corruption in Zimbabwe's Marange Diamond Fields
04 December 2012 | Africa, Corruption, ReportThe third investigation by PAC into illicit activity in Zimbabwe’s diamond sector, this report focusses on ongoing trade irregularities, the lack...
Working Paper I What Is Governance?
31 January 2013 | Article / Working Paper, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankThis paper is part of an effort to better measure governance. The paper points to the poor state of empirical measures of the quality of states,...
Governance assessments for local stakeholders: What the World Governance Assessment offers
04 April 2013 | Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankThis report introduces the basic features of the World Governance Assessment (WGA) and highlights main findings of the second round of WGA that was...