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Liberian CSOs Drive Human Rights Evidence from PRS I to PRS II
30 April 2012
Human rights have been made a cross-cutting theme underpinning Liberia’s second Poverty Reduction Strategy (currently under formulation). What does this mean in practice? How will a Human Rights...
UNDP Launches Index of Forestry Protection in Indonesia
17 May 2013 | country index, forest governance, un-reddJAKARTA – May 6 - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Indonesia on Monday launched the first comprehensive forest governance index for Indonesia. The index analyses...
Post-2015 l MY World’ Survey – first results – half a million citizens tell the United Nations their priorities
17 May 2013 | crowd-sourced, global, post-2015, public opinion‘MY World’ Survey – first results – half a million citizens tell the United Nations their priorities: “A good education”, “better health care” and “an honest and responsive government” are the...
UN-REDD+ l Valuable breakthrough in Indonesia’s efforts towards improved REDD+ governance
16 May 2013 | asia pacific, data collection, forest governance, ogc, pga, un-reddAfter two years of extensive consultation and involvement from civil society actors, academia and the Government of Indonesia, the Participatory Governance Assessment for REDD+ (PGA) was launched in...
Working paper series on the quality of governance in China debuts - Governance Project
16 May 2013 | asia pacific, authoritarian, governance concept, governance quality, paper, public admin, rural developmentAs part of its ongoing effort to better conceptualize and measure governance, the Governance Project housed at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law held two workshops in...
Post-2015 l Crowdsourcing the next global development agenda
16 May 2013 | crowd-sourced, ict, mobile phones, post-2015, poverty reduction, targetsThe United Nations is using digital media and mobile phone technology to enable people from across the world to take part in setting the next generation of anti-poverty goals. For the first time in...