Regional Initiatives

These pages aim to provide resources and guidance with regards to assessing governance within specific regions, such as in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe or Latin America.
 
Often countries within the same region face similar governance challenges and opportunities. Governance assessments that take regional dimensions into account may sometimes provide more insight and better evaluations, depending on the measuring needs.

Much can be learned from comparing a country's performance with that of others. Regional averages as well as neighbouring countries may often provide useful yardsticks. More politically relevant information, as well as a sense of regional competitiveness, may be gained from regional measuring initiatives than compared with global initiatives.
 
Within the respective regions and their sub-regions governance assessments can be tailored to evaluate government plans, inform on progress or offer evidence-based recommendations.
 
These pages have been developed to assist users to do exactly this.
 
For each region listed users can find:

• Measurement tools and assessment frameworks
• Knowledge products and publications produced by a wide variety of organisations and stakeholders
• Examples of regional initiatives for measuring
• Organizations that work with assessing governance within the respective region