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  Quantitative Human Rights Indicators: a survey of major initiatives

  Åbo Akademi University, 2005

  This paper provides an overview and assessment of some major attempts and approaches to develop quantitative human rights and related indicators that have been recently used for human rights monitoring.
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  Local governance self assessment: guidelines for facilitators

  Intercooperation Bangladesh, 2009

  Local government promises to be more responsive to people's demands, more effective in service delivery and more accountable when citizens participate in local governance. This can be achieved through public meetings, grievance procedures, civil society group activities, opinion surveys, elections, and media involvement.
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  What do corruption indices measure?

  University of Houston, 2007

  This paper presents empirical evidence that the most widely used indices to measure corruption might be biased in systematic ways.
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  Accountability arrangements to combat corruption: a note on research methodology for combating corruption

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2007

  This document provides information about the research agenda and methods used to investigate corruption in the infrastructure sector. It presents a combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to analyse corruption in the infrastructure sector.
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  A guide to rapid assessment and policy-making for the control of corruption in Latin American judicial systems

  The Due Process of Law Foundation, 2007

  This guide provides a tool for the rapid assessment of judicial corruption and the development of reform proposals, with special reference to Latin America.It begins by introducing concepts associated with corruption in general and proposes a definition that can be used for the study of judicial corruption in particular.
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  Engaging with Parliaments: advice to civil society

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008

  This paper provides concrete suggestions that will assist well-informed civil society leaders who wish to influence their own parliaments to achieve legislative and social change.
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  Lessons in effective citizen activism: the anti-third term campaign in Zambia

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005

  In 2001, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba tried to change the country’s constitution to allow him to run for a third term. However, a civil society-led campaign forced the President to abandon the plan.
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  Lessons from citizen activism in Uganda

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008

  This paper highlights the role played by citizens who launched a campaign to prevent Uganda’s celebrated natural forest, the Mabira Central Forest Reserve, from being donated to a private sugar-growing and processing company. The paper presents tactics from this campaign as a lesson for approaching broader issues of governance.
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  Measuring ‘success’ in five African Anti-Corruption Commissions

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2005

  This paper suggests that the widespread lack of ‘success’ of anti-corruption commissions (ACCs) is intimately connected to how they are funded by donors and governments and what donors and governments expect of them. The findings here are based on the insights gained from country visits to Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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  Assessing civil society participation as supported in-country by Cordaid, Hivos, Novib and Plan Netherlands, 1999-2004: Country Study of Guinea

  2005

  This report focuses on an evaluation of civil society participation in Guinea. It describes the processes of this evaluation and presents the theoretical framework of the power cube – its conception as well as its application in the field.

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