Using indicators for policy making

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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...
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) as an aid criterion: ( J. Müller-Goldenstedt / International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity , 2009); This paper analyses the use of the World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) rankings by bilateral and multilateral donors in their aid allocation and other related decisio...
Problem of measuring the quality of democracy in Latin America.: ( D. Altman;A. Perez-Linan / Rollins College , 2002); This article explores the problem of conceptualising and measuring the quality of democracy in Latin America. The study constructs summary measures of the quality of democracy in several ways, and sho...
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...
Assessing the impact of right to information programmes: ( A. Puddephatt;E. McCall;A. Wilde / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2006); This guide focuses on the monitoring and evaluation side of the right to information programmes, paying particular attention to the use of appropriate indicators, including gender and pro-poor indicat...
Review of governance indicators in Malawi: ( C. Scott;A Wilde / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2006); This background paper aims to inform discussions on the establishment of a system to monitor the implementation of the governance goals and strategies as articulated in Malawi’s national develop...
How to use indicators for assessing human rights standards in development programmes?: ( UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2006); This document is a practical guide on indicators for human rights based approaches to development programmes, for UNDP country offices....
How to use governance indicators?: ( UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2007); The increasing demand for reliable measures of governance has resulted in a tremendous growth in indicator sources, which are used to measure the performance of governments, the quality of public inst...
A reference manual on developing gender-sensitive indicators: ( T. Beck / Commonwealth Secretariat , 1999); This reference manual is designed to assist the user in the selection, use and dissemination of gender-sensitive indicators at the national level. It aims to strike a balance between discussion of the...
Measuring worker-rights' gap: ( W. R. Bohning / DigitalCommons@ILR , 2003); This paper conceptualizes and measures numerically the gap between the real and the ideal world of basic workers’ rights with the help of the ratification, reporting, supervisory and complaints ...