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  • Nicaragua presenta en feria regional experiencia parlamentaria de cooperación Sur-Sur

    Source of the information: 
    Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo

    Panamá, 10 de mayo, 2012/ Saber del Sur es la feria regional de cooperación Sur-Sur, organizada por el Gobierno de Panamá con el apoyo del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas, coordinada por el PNUD, que crea un escenario en donde se proponen soluciones y mecanismos de cooperación que han desarrollado los países de América Latina y el Caribe para avanzar en sus desafíos comunes de desarrollo.

  • Blogpost: Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Governance Challenge

    Source of the information: 
    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    As the world economy emerges from the rubble of the financial crisis, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have consolidated their position as relevant players in global financial markets and beyond. Though 2007 projections that estimated that the value of SWF assets would reach $12 trillion in 2015 grossly overestimated their growth trajectory, SWFs command substantial financial power.

  • Vacancy (Abuja): Data Analyst

    Source of the information: 
    TUGAR

    The Technical Unit on Governance and Anti-Corruption Reforms-TUGAR is aGovernment  research, monitoring and evaluation unit set up to respond to the critical need for a rigorous approach to policy-making grounded on empirical, data collection and analysis, and in-depth country specific diagnostics on corruption and related governance issues.

    The key mandates of TUGAR are as follows:

  • Think Tank Releases Prairie Aboriginal Rankings: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

    Source of the information: 
    FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

    The focus of indigenous activists and scholars tends to be exclusively on Aboriginals achieving self-government.

    While regaining jurisdiction over critical areas of governance is very important, the focus should be on achieving good governance. After all, the point ought to be the advancement of First Nations communities at the individual and group level.

  • Blogpost: Can International Election Monitoring Harm Governance?

    Source of the information: 
    Dart-Throwing Chimp

    According to a convincing new paper (ungated version here) by political scientists Alberto Simpser and

  • Blogpost: Freedom of the Press 2012: Breakthroughs and Pushback in the Middle East

    Source of the information: 
    Freedom House

    The Middle East and North Africa saw dramatic if precarious gains in press freedom in 2011, and for the first time in eight years, global media freedom did not experience an overall decline, according to a Freedom House report released today. However, due to downgrades in some previously free countries, the percentage of the world’s population living in societies with a fully free press has fallen to its lowest level in over a decade.

  • Blogpost: Using international post system to track government efficiency

    Source of the information: 
    Mostly Economics

    An amazing paper by the foursome Alberto Chong, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. They say it is incredibly preliminary but the broad idea is pretty much there.

    They look at this issue of governance in a country. There are two reasons why we  have bad govts:

     

  • Bogpost: Why measuring social institutions is important for assessing progress on gender equality?

    Source of the information: 
    Wikiprogress.org
    Discriminatory social institutions can help explain persistent gender inequalities

    There is now widespread agreement that gender equality matters for development, economic growth and poverty reduction.

  • New paper on governance indicators and National Human Development Reports

    National Human Development Reports are particularly opportune entry points for promoting the use of better quality and more country-based democratic governance indicators.
     

  • Governance Assessments Programme: Midterm Review

    Source of the information: 
    GAP

    A mid-term review of the Global Programme on Governance Assessments 2008-2012 was conducted in 2011. The review is primarily a strategic, forward looking assessment to document lessons and provide recommendations based on experience so far. The review will inform the continuing development of UNDP’s conceptual as well as operational approach to governance assessments, taking account of the changing nature of competitive advantages and demand from UNDP country offices and national counterparts since the programme began.

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