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Belize l Employee Assistance Policy survey conducted for public servants in Belize
03 April 2013 | latin america, needs assessment, public servants, public service delivery, sampling, surveyThe Ministry of the Public Service and Elections and Boundaries, in an attempt to improve the performance standards and services delivery by public servants in Belize, has embarked on a number of...
“Oops! Did I just ruin this impact evaluation?” Top 5 of mistakes and how the new Impact Evaluation Toolkit can help.
20 February 2013 | impact evaluation, implementation, survey, survey design, toolkitOn October 3rd, I sent out a survey asking people what was the biggest, most embarrassing, dramatic, funny, or other oops mistake they made in an impact evaluation. Within a few hours, a former...
Survey l Trust in US Government Remains Low
04 February 2013 | public opinion, survey, trustA survey of public opinion two weeks ago shows that 73% of Americans say they can trust government only some of the time, or that they can never trust the government. Just 26% say they can trust...
Launch of The Asia Foundation’s 2012 Survey of the Afghan People
02 November 2012 | afghanistan, data, public opinion, release, surveyOn November 14th, in Kabul and Washington, D.C., The Asia Foundation will release findings from Afghanistan in 2012: A Survey of the Afghan People–the broadest, most comprehensive public opinion poll...
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...
Think Tank Releases Prairie Aboriginal Rankings: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy
14 May 2012 | aboriginal, indigenous, local governance, surveyThe focus of indigenous activists and scholars tends to be exclusively on Aboriginals achieving self-government. While regaining jurisdiction over critical areas of governance is very important, the...
Democracy Perception Survey (Bangladesh): Good news for democracy, bad news for political establishment | Opinion
16 April 2012 | asia pacific, bangladesh, commentary, democracy, methodology, perception survey, perceptions, public opinion, surveyApril 3: When asked, what they perceive about democracy in Bangladesh, many participants, in a survey, initially declined to respond. A question, as complex as this one, might have put them in an...
New Report Examines Timor-Leste's Local Governance Strengths, Weaknesses | In Asia
19 March 2012 | asia pacific, local governance, report, survey, timor-lesteAfter 10 years of independence and as a nascent democracy, Timor-Leste still faces the dual challenge of building formal institutions from the ground up while ensuring that traditional, local...
Survey (Philippines): Impact of conflict and violence in the Philippines, 2000-2010 - Survey results (I) | Making development work for all
19 March 2012 | asia pacific, conflict, displacement, fragility, philippines, report, surveyA new report, Violent Conflicts and Displacement in Central Mindanao: Challenges for recovery and development (available at www.worldbank.org/ph), looks at vulnerability in some of the most conflict-...
Blogpost: Are RCTs the Best Way to Evaluate the Impact of Democracy and Governance Aid? » ElectionGuide Digest - Democracy assistance news from the CEPPS partners
12 March 2012 | blogpost, impact evaluation, methodology, rct, surveyImpact evaluation is the buzzword on every development practitioner’s lips these days. The need to establish and quantify results from foreign aid spending is gaining greater urgency in the current...