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    Governance assessment: overview of governance assessment frameworks and results from the 2006 World Governance Assessment

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    This report presents the summary of discussions at the ODI Learning Workshop-2007 on governance assessments. Discussions focus on the way in which the World Governance Assessment (WGA) could further contribute to country-level processes, including the shaping of a country agenda for improving governance and links between the WGA and other processes. Issues covered include:
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    Conceptualising and measuring democracy: evaluating alternatives indices

    School of International Relations, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, 2002
    This paper offers a comprehensive and integrated framework for the analysis of data sets on democracy.
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    Strengthening African Governance: index of African governance result and rankings

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009
    The 2009 Index of African Governance seeks to measure the degree to which five categories of political goods - Safety and Security; Rule of Law, Transparency, and Corruption; Participation and Human Rights; Sustainable Economic Opportunity; and Human Development - are provided within Africa’s 53 countries.
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    Using representative opinion surveys in the African Peer Review Mechanism Process

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    The opinions of the general public are as important as those of the elite if a country wishes to achieve a comprehensive self-assessment process, such as the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). But gathering and measuring the opinion of ordinary people is not a simple matter. The author of this paper warns against the traps and pitfalls awaiting the unwary.
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    Framework for promoting transparency at the local level

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2004
    This paper is part of an Urban Governance Toolkit Series. It describes the governance approach to promoting transparency at the local level. The governance approach is based on an institutional perspective that sees corruption as primarily a failure of institutions. The paper presents five strategic entry points as a framework for improving transparency. These are:
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    Payment and independence: does a client relationship with government inhibit ‘think-tank’ criticism?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    This paper analyses the relationship between privately and publicly funded policy research institutions ('think-tanks') and government, and the extent to which that relationship may change commensurate with the extent of government funding. It investigates the extent of the real or notional independence of think-tanks, drawing on the Nigerian experience.
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    Common African political governance issues: lessons from six early APRM reports

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    This paper analyses the discussion and recommendations about Africa's pressing political governance issues - including the separation of powers, election management and corruption - from the APRM reports of Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Algeria and Benin.
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    Assessing women’s political party programmes: best practices and recommendations

    National Democratic Institute, 2008
    This handbook presents the specific elements and approaches that are most effective in encouraging women’s participation and leadership in political parties.
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    Making the news: why the African Peer Review Mechanism didn’t

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has not generated a national conversation in South Africa. This paper investigates the reasons for this failure of the APRM.
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    Quantitative and qualitative methods in impact evaluation and measuring results

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2009
    This paper reviews the case for promoting and formalising qualitative and combined methods for impact evaluation as part of a broader strategy amongst donors and country partners for tackling the evaluation gap.

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