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The Oslo Governance Forum - Democratic Governance Assessments for Social Accountability (Oslo 2011)
24 April 2012 | conference, conference materials, governance assessment, oslo2011, social accountabilityThe Oslo Governance Forum (OGF) was organised by the UNDP’s Democratic Governance Group in collaboration with United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), ActionAid, ACT Alliance, World Bank Institute...
Conference: Measures of Subjective Well-being for Public Policy
28 March 2012 | conference, indicators, inter-disciplinary dialogue, measurement, public policy, united kingdom, well-beingThe conference (13-15 July) in Leeds, UK, aims to bring together philosophers and non-philosophers - from psychologists and sociologists to economists and public policy practitioners - to discuss the...
The 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Brazil, 7-10 November 2012
29 February 2012 | anti-corruption, conference, corruption, event opportunity, integrityNext year’s conference will support and connect people who want to change the rules of the gamePeople are devising new ways to push for greater transparency and accountability, and are standing up...
Call-For-Papers: EGPA Conference 2012
28 February 2012 | conference, ethics, event, integrity, methodology, opportunity, public admin10th workshop of the Study Group of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) on ETHICS AND INTEGRITY OF GOVERNANCE September 5-8 University of Bergen, Norway The Study Group on Ethics...
Call for Papers (deadline 1 May): Ethics and Integrity of Governance: 9th Workshop of the EGPA in Bucharest (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 18 April 2011)
18 April 2011 | call for papers, conference, event, integrity, methodology, public adminThe next annual session of the EGPA ethics and integrity study group will take place at the EGPA conference in Bucharest, Romania, from 7 to 9 September 2011. For the Bucharest conference in...
Oslo seminar: How can human rights be measured?
27 June 2010 | conference, human rights, index, indicators, norwegian centre for human rights, ohchr, seminar, unicefThe idea that it would be possible to literally measure human rights fulfillment through some Index similar to the Human Development Index (HDI) has stimulated quite a bit of debate worldwide....
Conference 20-21 May: Evaluation revisited (Context, 18 May 2010)
18 May 2010 | conference, conference materials, evaluation, trainingThe conference focuses on how evaluative practice can be improved, given the need to view much of development as a process of societal transformation and, therefore, complex. Current evaluation...
Materials from Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference. (ACP-EU gov', 12 April 2010)
12 April 2010 | aid effectiveness, conference, donors, event, twitterOver the past six years, the PLAID (Project-Level Aid) initiative has been hard at work creating the world's largest repository of information on foreign assistance. Together with their new...
Oslo University debate: How country-based can democracy assessments be?
19 March 2010 | conference, debate, democracy, democracy assessment, seminar, workshopOn 15 and 16 January 2010, Oslo University opened the floor for lively debates between academicians, practitioners and students on various aspects of democracy with the conference called “...
Democracy Audits and Governmental Indicators discussed at Berkeley
19 March 2010 | conference, democracy audits, governmental indicators, legitimacy, political theory, toolOn October 30-31, 2009, the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre joined other experts from around the world to assess the current state of democracy audits and to develop an agenda for constructing better...