How to assess democratic governance
This section addresses the need to better understand various methods and approaches to assess and measure democratic governance and its links to pro-poor planning, budgeting, and delivery of the MDGs. It aims to help in analysing the viability of various approaches in terms of the implications for participation, consultation, accountability, transparency, representation, deliberation, and decision-making for democratising the institutions, rules, and overall governance.
Latest Documents
- 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...
- National Human Development Reports and their use of democratic governance indicators
- J. Nahem (ed) / United Nations Development Programme, 2004
- There exists a multiplicity of governance indicators that are almost exclusively used as country-ranking instruments intended for business investment, donor allocation, civil society advocacy and academic purposes. The majority are of...
- 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...
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