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Parliamentary assessments can serve a larger purpose by measuring the progress of a legislative institution in terms of its own internal reform and modernization process, as well as measuring the overall democratic development of the legislative institution.
The political nature of legislatures, the particular types of functions for which they are responsible, and the constant evolution in membership and political composition of legislatures lead to significant challenges in establishing indicators.
Much of the literature and practice in parliament assessments stresses that parliamentary development needs to be placed within a broader historical and social context of democratic development, and be assessed in terms both of the local realities of democratic development and of the need to remain focused on overall democratization.
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Tools for Assessing Governance
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Stated purpose: To assess parliament's role in the budget process to prevent and combat corruption.” The objective is to provide parliamentarians, parliamentary…
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Stated purpose: The main objectives were to: 1) Identify best practice in defining benchmarks across Commonwealth Parliaments; 2) Produce recommendations for the…
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Stated purpose: This toolkit aims to provide a framework for parliamentarians to discuss their own performance in preventing corruption. The context for the questions…
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Stated purpose: This self-assessment toolkit invites parliaments to evaluate their democratic performance against a set of criteria based on the core values set out…
Examples of Country Initiatives
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There has been an ongoing discussion on the actual existence of democracy in Mexico, and already in the 60’s, there was a consensus about Mexico…
MexicoUniversidad Autonoma Metropolitana -
In 2001 Forum Leaders adopted 29 guiding principles of best practices for FIC Legislatures in strengthening parliamentary democracy within the constraints…
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat -
The ECA governance project aims at measuring and monitoring progress in governance on the African continent using three complementary research instruments…
AustriaUnited Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) -
The aim is to improve the efficiency of the work carried out by the legislative power in Mexico with regards to budgetary issues. In the context of the…
MayotteFundar - Centro de Análisis e Investigación
Global Indicators
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Collate data on the representation of women in national parliaments.
Organizations
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The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) is an inter-governmental organization whose programmes aim to provide knowledge…
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UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to…
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The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)is the international organisation of the Parliaments of sovereign States. As the focal point for worldwide parliamentary…
UNDP Key Publications
on assessing governance related to Parliament
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