Governance
- Right to Information in South Asia: challenging the bureaucratic process
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The Right to Information (RTI) movement in South Asia has seen a wide variance of results. India has witnessed huge interest and use of the legislation, whilst Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh have had more critical obstacles to face. This briefing details the challenges and offers recommendations for those countries who have adopted RTI in the region.
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- An overview and guidance on the UNFCCC process
- Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development , 2012
- This overview guide on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) highlights the different types of documents relevant to the process. The paper notes that the UNFCCC comprises...
- Our rights, our information: empowering people to demand rights through knowledge
- Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, 2012
- This book show cases how the right has been used by ordinary people to change systems, redress grievances and realise other rights. It places these experiences in the historical context of the evoluti...
- Economics and governance of nongovernmental organizations in Bangladesh
- 2006
- Bangladesh has made striking progress on a range of social indicators over the last 15 years, an achievement widely credited to the country's pluralist service provision regime. Nongovernmental organi...
- Integrating safety, health and social equity into a green economy
- International Labour Organization , 2012
- There are two major challenges that define the 21st century: 1) averting climate change and the deterioration of natural resources; 2) ensuring sustainable development based on economic growth, social...
- Participatory Budgeting: Citizen Participation for Better Public Policies
- J. Oropeza / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011
- In the last two decades, Latin American countries have implemented participatory budgeting (PB) as a way to incorporate citizen perspective into budget designation, in order to increase public policie...
- Empirical risk analysis of Indian trade's exposure to an EU border carbon adjustment measure
- K. Das / Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, India, 2012
- This document is an empirical analysis of India’s trade vulnerabilities to a possible border carbon adjustment scheme implemented by the European Union (EU). Many EU countries consider such a sc...
- Strategies for Policy Reform, Volume 2: Engaging Entrepreneurs in Democratic Governance
- K. E. Bettcher / Center for International Private Enterprise , 2010
- Strategies for Policy Reform, Volume 2 reveals how local reformers in partnership with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) have transformed policy dialogue in their countries to cre...
- Summary of the SREX report on climate extremes and risk management from an African perspective
- C. Cameron (ed);G. Norrington-Davies (ed);V. te Velde (ed) / Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
- This report is a summary of the 'Special report on managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation' (SREX) from an African perspective. The report was compiled ...
- Making E-Government Projects in Developing Countries More Successful and Sustainable: Some Case Studies from India
- R. Kumar / 2007
- This paper examines the issues in the context of lessons drawn from four ICT based government to citizen (G2C) and citizen to government (C2G) projects in India. The projects examined are Bhoomi, a G2...
- E-Governance as an Anti Corruption Tool: Korean Cases
- M. S. Iqbal / 2008
- This paper aims to see e-governance as an anti corruption tool. Cases from the Republic of Korea - the OPEN system and the GePS - will be analyzed. The article aims to dentify the successful act...


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