Country initiatives of assessing governance

A wide variety of governance assessments and initiatives are increasingly being pursued by national actors, in addition to different international agencies. There is a demand from countries for technical assistance and knowledge on governance assessments. This section brings together cases of measuring initiatives of democratic governance as a whole or with regard to specific areas of governance for a specific country.

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Since transition to democratic rule in the early 1990s Ghana has experienced fiveregularly scheduled multi-party elections. Ghana’s experience so far makes the country one of the rare cases of stable and reasonably functioning multiparty democracies in Africa. This survey, assesses the progress of Ghanaian democratization.

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Rwanda joint governance assessment report: monitoring progress: ( A. Duncan (ed);G. Williams (ed);T. Sheehy (ed) / Local government of Rwanda , 2008); This report is an assessment of governance in Rwanda and is aimed at establishing a common understanding of governance progress, problems and priorities on the basis of agreed indicators and benchm...
Assessing the quality of life in a county: ( D. Zachary / Applied Survey Research , 2006); Santa Cruz County, California has one of the oldest community indicator projects, with the first year of its Community Assessment Project (CAP) starting in 1994 and continuing through 2006 and beyo...
Making governance assessments nationally owned: ( G. Hyden / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2007); This paper focuses on the challenges for making governance assessments nationally owned, which is a requirement under the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness. The author says that making governance...
Measuring and tracking the performance of local governments in Indonesia: ( World Bank Research , 2008); Indonesia has been transformed from a highly centralised country into one of the most decentralised countries. Since 2001, local governments (LGs) have become the main drivers of public service delive...
Governments and donors coordinating governance assessments: ( G. Williams;A. Duncan;P. Landell-Mills;S. Unsworth;T. Sheehy / The Policy Practice , 2009); A joint governance assessment (JGA) aims to bring government and development partners together to undertake a joint assessment of governance performance based on commonly agreed indicators. The first ...

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County initiatives

Governance indicators produced by national stakeholders may stand a better chance of being used by national stakeholders than indicators produced externally. The data produced by the initiatives in this database may assist national stakeholders to improve on governance and to hold governments to account. More...