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Monitoring corruption: Evidence from a field Experiment in Indonesia
Article / Working PaperIn this article Ben Olken compares the efficiency of two much proposed methods to reduce corruption: increasing audits by government officials and increasing grassroots participation. The results strongly advocate for the first but find no effect of the latter. This article is one of the first carefully designed randomised experiments on the economics of corruption. It constructs a well defined...
Bogor 2012: Workshop Report
Asia and the Pacific, Land Governance, Report, UNDP ProducedThis workshop report presents the outcome of the Participatory Governance Assessments Knowledge Exchange Meeting 17-18 April 2012, Bogor - Indonesia. The UN-REDD Programme is currently piloting four PGA pilots (Ecuador, Nigeria, Vietnam and Indonesia) which are in different stages of preparation and implementation. In our dialogue with the PGA practitioners and stakeholders, they have expressed...
Lessons Learned: Global Programme on Governance Assessment
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, ReportOn the heels of the Oslo Governance Forum, UNDP convened projects supported by the Global Programme on Governance Assessments from around the world. This one-day workshop collected and compared the lessons learned from experiences in 16 countries. This report draws on those experiences, as well as the seven reviews and evaluations of UNDP’s governance assessments projects...
Aspects, Variables, and Indicators Frameworks and Justifications - Indonesia
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Guide / Manual / Indicators, UNDP Produced, GovernmentThis publications contains an overview, justification and explanation of indicators and variables used for the Indonesian democracy index.
Choosing an assessment framework (ppt)
GAP, Presentation, Public AdministrationPresentation delivered at the rolling International Training Programme (ITP) 'Towards Local Democracy and Local Development through Local Government', that took place on the 1st. of September 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The ITP is a joint venture between the UNCDF and International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD).
Concept Note and Agenda- Lessons Learned from Assessing Governance: Towards Inclusive Democracies and Development in Asia
Asia and the Pacific, Event Material, Local Governance and Decentralization, UNDP ProducedThe South-South Exchange of Experiences and Experts’ Forum will reflect on the experiences in a number of countries in Asia-Pacific which have undertaken governance assessments. The Forum will explore the relevance of nationally-driven governance assessments to the challenges identified in the region – inequalities in development and governance deficits – and how governance assessments can...
Participatory Governance Assessments on REDD+in Indonesia (ppt)
Asia and the Pacific, Presentation, UNDP ProducedPresentation delivered at a workshop on the Oslo Governance Forum on Democratic Governance Assessments for Social Accountability, in Oslo 2011.
Squaring Governance Assessments with the Accountability Agenda
Book, GAP, UNDP ProducedThis publication is part of the background material for the The Oslo Governance Forum (OGF). The OGF took place on 3-5 October 2011, and was organised by the UNDP’s Democratic Governance Group in collaboration with United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), ActionAid, ACT Alliance, World Bank Institute and PRIA Global Partnership. The Forum focused on participatory governance assessments and...
Indonesia Country Assessment: The Asia-Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Human Rights, Justice, Report, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Ana Patricia Graça and Andrea Davis This report presents the assessment findings of the DGTTFsupported Indonesia project Strengthening Access to Justice and the Rule of Law (A2J Assessment Project). The country study is an assessment and not a project evaluation. It provides an overall analytic review of results, rather than an evaluation of progress. It aims mostly to...
Framework for Result Based Public Sector Management and Country Cases
Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationCountries’ weak public sector management (PSM) systems are often the key factor constraining the delivery and assessment of development initiatives. While the international focus on managing for development results (MfDR) has increased the need for these systems to be robust, many PSM capacity development initiatives have been short-term and unsustainable. Moreover, countries often see such...