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Quantitative Human Rights Indicators: a survey of major initiatives
Åbo Akademi University, 2005This 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.DocumentLocal governance self assessment: guidelines for facilitators
Intercooperation Bangladesh, 2009Local 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.DocumentWhat do corruption indices measure?
University of Houston, 2007This paper presents empirical evidence that the most widely used indices to measure corruption might be biased in systematic ways.DocumentAccountability arrangements to combat corruption: a note on research methodology for combating corruption
Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2007This 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.DocumentA guide to rapid assessment and policy-making for the control of corruption in Latin American judicial systems
The Due Process of Law Foundation, 2007This 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.DocumentEngaging with Parliaments: advice to civil society
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008This 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.DocumentLessons in effective citizen activism: the anti-third term campaign in Zambia
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005In 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.DocumentLessons from citizen activism in Uganda
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008This 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.DocumentMeasuring ‘success’ in five African Anti-Corruption Commissions
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2005This 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.DocumentAssessing civil society participation as supported in-country by Cordaid, Hivos, Novib and Plan Netherlands, 1999-2004: Country Study of Guinea
2005This 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.Pages
