Global initiatives of assessing governance
- 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 assessment of this kind was undert...
- Uses and abuses of governance indicators
- C. Arndt; C. Oman / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
- Some international organisations, and most prominently the World Bank, play a leading role, both in the supply and use of cross-country governance ratings. This paper explains: the reasons for this role the pro...
- 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. The guide outlines existing human rights indicators, shows how they may be incorporated...
- Indices of national performance: a survey
- R. Bandura; C. Martin del Campo / United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- This paper presents an update of the June 2005 survey of country indices that rank or assess countries according to some measure. The present update includes new indices launched between June 2005 and November 2006. The pic...
- Handbook on democracy assessment
- D. Beetham; S. Bracking; I. Kearton / International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2001
- The International IDEA Handbook on Democracy Assessment is a guide to assessing the quality of democracy and human rights in any country around the world. The Handbook provides a means to measure systematically the full ra...
- Ibrahim Index for governance assessment: limitations
- J. Blaser / United Nations Development Programme, 2008
- Mo Ibrahim Foundation published a new index in September 2007 ranking the performance of the 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The Ibrahim Index grades countries on factors such as security, levels of corruption, and respect for hum...
- Power and drivers of change analyses: a review
- T. Dahl-Østergaard; S. Unsworth; M. Robinson / Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2005
- This review compares and contrasts different donor approaches to conducting Power and Drivers of Change (DOC) analysis, and looks at what is being done with the findings, in order to learn lessons for future work. It draws mainly on s...
- Human rights as an aid condition: An assessment
- K. Desormeau / Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2005
- Donors have long used human rights arguments to justify the giving or withholding of development assistance. Until the late 1990s, however, donor governments relied mainly on subjective judgments. Recently, in contrast, th...
- How to conduct country governance analysis?
- Department for International Development, UK, 2007
- This Note provides operational guidance on how to conduct Country Governance Analysis (CGA). It aims to promote a consistent approach across DFID to ensure the analysis is clearly presented and based on common principles. The exact sc...
- Challenges and dilemnas in providing support to fragile situations
- L. Engberg-Pedersen; L. Andersen; F. Stepputat / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
- This report reviews current debates and central dilemmas in relation to fragile situations. It looks in particular at the challenges and dilemmas that characterise fragility and support to fragile situations.The report takes the persp...
- Uses and abuses of governance indicators
- C. Arndt; C. Oman / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
- Some international organisations, and most prominently the World Bank, play a leading role, both in the supply and use of cross-country governance ratings. This paper explains: the reasons for this role the pro...
- 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. The guide outlines existing human rights indicators, shows how they may be incorporated...
- Indices of national performance: a survey
- R. Bandura; C. Martin del Campo / United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- This paper presents an update of the June 2005 survey of country indices that rank or assess countries according to some measure. The present update includes new indices launched between June 2005 and November 2006. The pic...
- Handbook on democracy assessment
- D. Beetham; S. Bracking; I. Kearton / International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2001
- The International IDEA Handbook on Democracy Assessment is a guide to assessing the quality of democracy and human rights in any country around the world. The Handbook provides a means to measure systematically the full ra...
- Ibrahim Index for governance assessment: limitations
- J. Blaser / United Nations Development Programme, 2008
- Mo Ibrahim Foundation published a new index in September 2007 ranking the performance of the 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The Ibrahim Index grades countries on factors such as security, levels of corruption, and respect for hum...
- Power and drivers of change analyses: a review
- T. Dahl-Østergaard; S. Unsworth; M. Robinson / Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2005
- This review compares and contrasts different donor approaches to conducting Power and Drivers of Change (DOC) analysis, and looks at what is being done with the findings, in order to learn lessons for future work. It draws mainly on s...
- Human rights as an aid condition: An assessment
- K. Desormeau / Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2005
- Donors have long used human rights arguments to justify the giving or withholding of development assistance. Until the late 1990s, however, donor governments relied mainly on subjective judgments. Recently, in contrast, th...
- How to conduct country governance analysis?
- Department for International Development, UK, 2007
- This Note provides operational guidance on how to conduct Country Governance Analysis (CGA). It aims to promote a consistent approach across DFID to ensure the analysis is clearly presented and based on common principles. The exact sc...
- Challenges and dilemnas in providing support to fragile situations
- L. Engberg-Pedersen; L. Andersen; F. Stepputat / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
- This report reviews current debates and central dilemmas in relation to fragile situations. It looks in particular at the challenges and dilemmas that characterise fragility and support to fragile situations.The report takes the persp...
- Democracy measures: an overview of data sets
- G.L. Munck / World Bank, 2003
- This paper provides an overview of measures of democracy, governance and rule of law. The focus is on broad cross- national data sets, that is, those data sets that can offer a sense of the overall variation within the relevant univer...
- 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...
