Assessing areas of governance
- Working paper identifying and promoting best practice in national low carbon growth plans
- 2009
- This working paper summarises output from Project Catalyst, an initiative of the ClimateWorks Foundation, aimed at providing analytical support for the UNFCCC negotiations on a post-Kyoto international climate agreement. It seeks to s...
- Gendering basic service delivery
- L. Corner; S. Repucci / United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- The delivery of gender-sensitive basic services for women is a prerequisite for development. However, the the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved unless and until women are able to contribute to and benefit from developm...
- How can we measure public administration performance? A guide
- M. Laberge (ed); J. Nahem (ed); K. Brown / United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- The proliferation of different public administration (PA) assessment tools has resulted in some confusion about which tools to use, how they should be applied and their weaknesses and strengths. This guide is intended for UNDP Country...
- A comparative anaysis of fragility indices
- J. F. Mata; S. Ziaja / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2011
- Although the understanding of the security threats posed by fragile states is still highly hypothetical and merits further investigation, fragile states are often considered an ideal breeding ground for national and international terr...
- Considering country corruption self-assessment
- S. Repucci (ed) / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
- The UN Convention against Corruption offers countries a unique framework to strengthen their ability to prevent and combat corruption. The self-assessment checklist is one of the few available methods where reports are generated throu...
- Governance assessments: essential tools for enhancing democratic governance
- United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- UNDP’s support for country-led democratic governance assessments is a key element of the organisation’s broader agenda on democratic governance to: foster inclusive participation, strengthen accountable and responsive gove...
- Public procurement in Bangladesh: an analysis
- S. Mahmood (ed) / Academic Journals, 2010
- Public procurement has been a neglected area of academic research yet it is a major function of government. Policy makers, professionals and academics are aware of the importance of public procurement in facilitating government operat...
- How can practitioners operate in corrupt and weak governance environments?
- V. Bhargava / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2011
- Good governance involves capable, accountable, transparent, and responsive states. Unfortunately, in many developing countries, weaknesses in these attributes are a grim reality, which, in turn, gives rise to pervasive corruption. Fur...
- Monitoring government policy in Latin America
- C. Dixon; L. Valverdes; M. Carolina da Silva / International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2011
- Throughout Latin America a diverse range of interest groups form a vibrant and innovative civil society. These groups are the driving force behind progress towards greater transparency, decentralization of decision-making and consolid...
- Analysing the impact of the new social media in the Arab world
- J. Ghannam / Center for International Media Action, 2011
- The Arab world has experienced an awakening of free expression that has now entered the body politic of Tunisia and Egypt and has helped break down the strangle hold of state sponsored media and information monopolies in those countri...
- Working paper identifying and promoting best practice in national low carbon growth plans
- 2009
- This working paper summarises output from Project Catalyst, an initiative of the ClimateWorks Foundation, aimed at providing analytical support for the UNFCCC negotiations on a post-Kyoto international climate agreement. It seeks to s...
- Gendering basic service delivery
- L. Corner; S. Repucci / United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- The delivery of gender-sensitive basic services for women is a prerequisite for development. However, the the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved unless and until women are able to contribute to and benefit from developm...
- How can we measure public administration performance? A guide
- M. Laberge (ed); J. Nahem (ed); K. Brown / United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- The proliferation of different public administration (PA) assessment tools has resulted in some confusion about which tools to use, how they should be applied and their weaknesses and strengths. This guide is intended for UNDP Country...
- A comparative anaysis of fragility indices
- J. F. Mata; S. Ziaja / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2011
- Although the understanding of the security threats posed by fragile states is still highly hypothetical and merits further investigation, fragile states are often considered an ideal breeding ground for national and international terr...
- Considering country corruption self-assessment
- S. Repucci (ed) / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
- The UN Convention against Corruption offers countries a unique framework to strengthen their ability to prevent and combat corruption. The self-assessment checklist is one of the few available methods where reports are generated throu...
- Governance assessments: essential tools for enhancing democratic governance
- United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- UNDP’s support for country-led democratic governance assessments is a key element of the organisation’s broader agenda on democratic governance to: foster inclusive participation, strengthen accountable and responsive gove...
- Public procurement in Bangladesh: an analysis
- S. Mahmood (ed) / Academic Journals, 2010
- Public procurement has been a neglected area of academic research yet it is a major function of government. Policy makers, professionals and academics are aware of the importance of public procurement in facilitating government operat...
- How can practitioners operate in corrupt and weak governance environments?
- V. Bhargava / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2011
- Good governance involves capable, accountable, transparent, and responsive states. Unfortunately, in many developing countries, weaknesses in these attributes are a grim reality, which, in turn, gives rise to pervasive corruption. Fur...
- Monitoring government policy in Latin America
- C. Dixon; L. Valverdes; M. Carolina da Silva / International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2011
- Throughout Latin America a diverse range of interest groups form a vibrant and innovative civil society. These groups are the driving force behind progress towards greater transparency, decentralization of decision-making and consolid...
- Analysing the impact of the new social media in the Arab world
- J. Ghannam / Center for International Media Action, 2011
- The Arab world has experienced an awakening of free expression that has now entered the body politic of Tunisia and Egypt and has helped break down the strangle hold of state sponsored media and information monopolies in those countri...
- Open Budget Initiative (OBI)
- The Open Budget Initiative (Initiative) is a global research and advocacy program which seeks to promote public access to budget information and the adoption of accountable budget systems. IBP launched the Initiative with the Open Budget Survey—an analysis and survey that evaluates whether governments give the public access to budget information and opportunities to participate i...
