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CIVICUS lThe 2013 State of Civil Society Report is here
03 May 2013 | africa, asia pacific, freedom of expression, governance, internet, latin america, methodology, women's rightsInsight from over 50 civil society experts from around the world. The State of Civil Society 2013 Report is Finally Here! Amidst the challenges facing civil society, the CIVICUS State of Civil...
Blogpost l Participant confidentiality and open access to research data
19 February 2013 | access-to-data, data, methodology, open access, researchWhile protecting human subjects’ confidentiality is a long-standing practice in the social sciences, new types of digital datasets present new challenges. Tensions between privacy and openness were...
Global Integrity Publishes New Data on Municipal Governance in the Philippines
08 February 2013 | anti-corruption assessment, data set, indicators, local governance, methodologyGlobal Integrity is pleased to formally publish a new data set assessing governance and anti-corruption measures at the local level in the Philippines, the Philippines Local Governance Transparency...
New Resource l Measuring Democracy and Democratic Governance in a Post-2015 Development Framework
11 December 2012 | discussion paper, indicators, mdgs, methodology, post-2015"Measuring Democracy and Democratic Governance in a post-2015 Development Framework" is a discussion paper released in August 2012, by UNDP. The discussion paper aims to outline some of the major...
Conference l 2014 UN E-Government Survey: e-Government as an Enabler for Collaborative Governance
05 December 2012 | e-governance, ict, methodologyThe Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) is organizing an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on the...
Governance indicators – Introduction
05 December 2012 | governance indicators, methodologyThe World Bank has been criticizing composite indexes like the HDI for a long time. Nonetheless, in 2002 the organization launched a new series of indicators with the objective of measuring six key...
Blogpost: HDI surprisingly similar to GDP/capita
21 November 2012 | blogpost, gdp, hdi, methodology, online debateHuman Development Index HDI is advanced as being a better indicator than “GDP per capita” in measuring the progress of Nations. HDI is calculated by UNDP from indicators for health, education and...
Bangladesh: citizens doubt performance of politicians
24 October 2012 | bangladesh, citizens feedback, methodology, perceptions, performance audit, political accountability, public opinion, surveyA new survey on the performance of MPs by Transparency International Bangladesh is creating a media storm nationally and elsewhere. The report irked the government with its ground breaking...
Blogpost: Can We Measure Politics and Political Development?
01 October 2012 | commentary, feasiblity, fragility, global index, methodology, predictionMeasuring how countries perform is all the rage. Everyone from the World Bank to Bertelsmann to Africa’s most famous entrepreneur does it, producing indices on things like how competitive economies...
Time Distance Progress Chart of MDG implementation
20 September 2012 | mdgs, methodologies, methodology, statistics, visualisation, web resourceAnalysis of MDG implementation needs a clear distinction between the progress made in the world in the analysed period and still considerable delays in the implementation of the MDGs. Progress has...