Governance assessments

This dossier serves as the Governance Assessment Library of publications for the UNDP’s Governance Assessment Portal.

This dossier offers publications that are available online, free of charge, and produced by experts, institutions and organisations that work in the field of governance assessments. With a growing number of publications, it is a rich resource for detailed, practical and up to date information about how to address issues related to assessments, drawing upon evidence about what works, and identifying innovations in approaches, policy and practice. It covers a range of approaches to governance assessment in order to enhance understanding of the various methodologies that have been developed in recent years and the varying insights they generate.

The dossier has five major sections sub-divided into multiple themes and topics

 

How to assess democratic governance  

How to define and select indicators for measurement, collect data and use indicators for evidence-based policy making? This section provides access to current thinking on these issues with relevant and up to date resources and publications for researchers, practitioners, and policy formers, organised in a “how to” format. More... 

 

Assessing areas of governance

The collection in this section provides the reader with a wealth of critical and diverse ideas as to if and how to assess governance in a broad variety of areas. It highlights practical information in terms of country, regional and global initiatives in each of the areas of governance to help share lessons for advancing strategy and practice. More...

 

Country Initiatives of assessing governance

There is a demand from countries for technical assistance and knowledge on governance assessments. This section brings together initiatives by different countries in measuring governance. It aims to present different strategies and approaches adopted to learn lessons and to help develop a shared framework and agenda for action. More...

 

Regional Initiatives of assessing governance

This section presents the regional initiatives of assessing governance that provides comparative data and helps in identifying potential trajectories of countries within specific regions. More...

 

 

Global initiatives of assessing governance

There is wide variety of governance assessment being pursued by different international agencies including aid donors, civil society organisations, and research institutes, bi-lateral and multi-lateral institutions. This section brings together global initiatives of governance assessments that are being carried out by a multitude of international organisations. More...