Regional initiatives of assessing governance
- APRM: achievements and challenges
- UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
- African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) reflects a fundamental shift in Pan African thought in its attempt to formalise an early warning mechanism to avert political and economic crises in Africa. It advances the acceptance of the Africa...
- Can ICT foster social and political freedoms in the Middle East?
- F. Shirazi / Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2008
- This paper examines the extent to which ICT expansion is impacting social and political freedoms in ten countries of the Middle Eastern region, defined as non-democratic states. It investigates two prominent and interrelated issues in...
- African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in Ghana
- A. Bing-Pappoe / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
- This paper examines the context within which the Ghana APRM process was conducted, the nature of the assessment, the assessment process, and how the outcome of the assessment process was used. The Ghana APRM assessment was ...
- 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...
- What needs to be done in establishing good governance in Africa?
- P. Chabal / South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
- Informal, neo-patrimonial power structures partly explain why over 30 years of structural adjustment and calls for good governance have failed to inspire lasting change in Africa. What can be done? This paper argues that th...
- Support for democracy is widespread in South Asia
- P.R. de Souza; P. Suhas; Y. Yadav / Democracy Asia, 2008
- This paper discusses results of the first-ever simultaneous survey of attitudes toward democracy in the five countries of South Asia - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka - based on a large and representative sample of a...
- An evaluation of governance structures in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe
- H. Melber (ed); G. Totemeyer; C.J. Makgala; S.J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
- This document is composed of three papers: the contributions on Namibia and Botswana look at the extent to which these countries are able to set standards in terms of well functioning democracies; the paper on Zimbabwe argues that the...
- An institutional analysis of APRM
- A.B. Chikwanha / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2007
- The New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) arose out of the need to attend to the sluggish democratic transitions in Africa as well as the stagnation of African deve...
- Access to justice in Asia Pacific: a review of assessment indicators
- J. C. Teehankee / United Nations Development Programme, 2003
- This paper reviews the indicators used to measure impacts and processes of access to justice and justice-related programs across the Asia-Pacific region and their limitations to assess improvements on access to justice by poor and dis...
- Where is Africa going?
- Afrobarometer, 2006
- This compendium summarises both continental trends and divergent country directions. It is based on three rounds of Afrobarometer public opinion surveys, 1999-2006. The study finds that even though Africans increasingly wo...
- APRM: achievements and challenges
- UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
- African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) reflects a fundamental shift in Pan African thought in its attempt to formalise an early warning mechanism to avert political and economic crises in Africa. It advances the acceptance of the Africa...
- Can ICT foster social and political freedoms in the Middle East?
- F. Shirazi / Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2008
- This paper examines the extent to which ICT expansion is impacting social and political freedoms in ten countries of the Middle Eastern region, defined as non-democratic states. It investigates two prominent and interrelated issues in...
- African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in Ghana
- A. Bing-Pappoe / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
- This paper examines the context within which the Ghana APRM process was conducted, the nature of the assessment, the assessment process, and how the outcome of the assessment process was used. The Ghana APRM assessment was ...
- 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...
- What needs to be done in establishing good governance in Africa?
- P. Chabal / South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
- Informal, neo-patrimonial power structures partly explain why over 30 years of structural adjustment and calls for good governance have failed to inspire lasting change in Africa. What can be done? This paper argues that th...
- Support for democracy is widespread in South Asia
- P.R. de Souza; P. Suhas; Y. Yadav / Democracy Asia, 2008
- This paper discusses results of the first-ever simultaneous survey of attitudes toward democracy in the five countries of South Asia - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka - based on a large and representative sample of a...
- An evaluation of governance structures in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe
- H. Melber (ed); G. Totemeyer; C.J. Makgala; S.J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
- This document is composed of three papers: the contributions on Namibia and Botswana look at the extent to which these countries are able to set standards in terms of well functioning democracies; the paper on Zimbabwe argues that the...
- An institutional analysis of APRM
- A.B. Chikwanha / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2007
- The New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) arose out of the need to attend to the sluggish democratic transitions in Africa as well as the stagnation of African deve...
- Access to justice in Asia Pacific: a review of assessment indicators
- J. C. Teehankee / United Nations Development Programme, 2003
- This paper reviews the indicators used to measure impacts and processes of access to justice and justice-related programs across the Asia-Pacific region and their limitations to assess improvements on access to justice by poor and dis...
- Where is Africa going?
- Afrobarometer, 2006
- This compendium summarises both continental trends and divergent country directions. It is based on three rounds of Afrobarometer public opinion surveys, 1999-2006. The study finds that even though Africans increasingly wo...
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