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Governance assessments as a tool for enhancing social accountability (ppt)
Africa, Local Governance and Decentralization, Presentation, Civil SocietyPresentation delivered by Paul van Hoof, Senior advisor local governance, Idasa, to the workshop on Country-led Governance Assessments in Namibia, 2009.
The World Governance Assessment (WGA) Survey (ppt)
Africa, Local Governance and Decentralization, Presentation, Civil SocietyPresentation delivered by Dr Justine Hunter, Namibia Institute for Democracy [NID], Namibia, to the workshop on Country-led Governance Assessments in Namibia, 2009.
The Role of African Think Tanks in Accountable Politics (talking points)
Africa, Democracy, Local Governance and Decentralization, Presentation, Civil SocietyPresentation delivered by Dr Emmanuel Akwetey, Institute for Democratic Governance [IDEG], Ghana to the workshop on Country-led Governance Assessments in Namibia, 2009.
Connecting outcomes to indicators: the Santa Cruz, California Community Assessment Project
Book, Local Governance and Decentralization, Civil SocietySanta Cruz County, California has one of the oldest community indicator projects, with the first year of its Community Assessment Project (CAP) starting in 1994 and continuing through 2006 and beyond. This paper outlines the history of the CAP, how it reveals the quality of life in the county, and how it educates community members. It also describes the successes of the CAP in acting as a...
Strengthening African Governance: index of African governance result and rankings
Africa, Corruption, Global Index, Human Rights, Justice, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThe 2009 Index of African Governance seeks to measure the degree to which five categories of political goods - Safety and Security; Rule of Law, Transparency, and Corruption; Participation and Human Rights; Sustainable Economic Opportunity; and Human Development - are provided within Africa’s 53 countries. The Index offers a report card on the accomplishments of each government for...
Baseline Survey on Integrity in the Ugandan Water Supply and Sanitation Sector
Africa, Civil Society, Corruption, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Civil Society, Global IntegrityThis report presents the results of a Baseline Survey on Water Integrity for the Ugandan Water Sector commissioned by Transparency International (TI), on behalf of the Water Integrity Network (WIN) in February 2009. Winsor Consult conducted the study under the supervision of the Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) of the World Bank-Uganda and WIN. Study results present experiences and...
Annual Report: Support to the decentralization and local governance project
Africa, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, UNDP Produced, Civil SocietyThe project to support Decentralization and Local Governance in Angola aims to assure stronger community participation in local governance and strengthen efforts to reduce poverty with the introduction and modernization of participative programming instruments, budgeting and public resource execution at provincial and municipal levels. UNDP in partnership with DFID and Spanish Cooperation...
Assessing local governance (ppt)
Civil Society, Event Material, Local Governance and Decentralization, UNDP Produced, Civil SocietyInclusive process, rigourous methodology and policy uptake are the key issues raised in this power point presentation by Paul van Hoof, senior advisor on local governance with IDASA, at the Cairo workshop on assessing governance in sectors, June 2009. See also the workshop page.
Local Governance Self-Assessment - Guidelines for facilitators
Framework, Local Governance and Decentralization, Civil SocietyThis frameworkt contains two half-day sessions for raising awareness about community level local governance self-assessment. Annexes include general tips for facilitators, a questionnaire to assess local governance at community and higher levels, sample flashcards, and a format for developing a Local Governance Improvement Plan. The main objective of the community level local...
Social Audit of Governance and Delivery of Public Services (Pakistan)
Framework, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Civil SocietyThe social audit of governance and public service delivery has the following key objectives: to monitor the effects of, and inform policy makers about, the devolution of public service delivery and local governance; to assess the views of citizens about public services, measure citizens’ knowledge about local governance,and evaluate their participation; and...