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Fostering Social Accountability - From Principle to Practice (Guidance Note 2010)
Guide / Manual / Indicators, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Sarah Lister et al. Social accountability is at the heart of UNDP's understanding of democratic governance, and human development more broadly. Bothe the UNDP Strategic Plan (2008 - 2013) and the Global Strategy to Strengthen Civil Society and Civic Engagement (2009) prioritize fostering inclusive participation and building responsive state institutions as means to strengthen...
Fostering Social Accountability - From Principle to Practice (Guidance Note 2010)
Guide / Manual / Indicators, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Sarah Lister et al. Social accountability is at the heart of UNDP's understanding of democratic governance, and human development more broadly. Bothe the UNDP Strategic Plan (2008 - 2013) and the Global Strategy to Strengthen Civil Society and Civic Engagement (2009) prioritize fostering inclusive participation and building responsive state institutions as means to strengthen...
Price of Peace: Financing for Gender Equality in Post-Conflict Reconstruction | UNDP
Report, UNDP ProducedUNDP-commissioned case studies in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Southern Sudan and Timor-Leste examine whether and how resources were allocated and used in post-conflict reconstruction initiatives to promote gender equality and address women’s needs. They also examine how funding of post-conflict reconstruction related to their own budgets with respect to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The Metrics of Human Rights: Complementarities of the Human Development and Capabilities Approach
Human Rights, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyCapabilities and human rights are closely related and share common commitments to freedom and justice as central political objectives. Much of the literature on this relationship has focused on defining the overlaps and differences between them as theoretical concepts. This paper explores a different aspect of the relationship, namely the overlaps and differences in their respective measurement...
The Metrics of Human Rights: Complementarities of the Human Development and Capabilities Approach
Report, Academic/Think TankCapabilities and human rights are closely related and share common commitments to freedom and justice as central political objectives. Much of the literature on this relationship has focused on defining the overlaps and differences between them as theoretical concepts. This paper explores a different aspect of the relationship, namely the overlaps and differences in their respective measurement...
The Development and Use of Governance Indicators in Africa: a Comparative Study
Africa, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Inter-Governmental Organization, UNDP Produced, Civil SocietyAuthors/Editors: Paul Graham, Stefan Gilbert and Karin Alexander, Idasa Good governance is one of the bedrocks of successful development. The ability to assess governance is therefore important both in terms of how that evidence can be used to influence policy and how policy can, in turn, influence governance outcomes. Assessments are also useful to establish benchmarks, objectives and...
Good Government Means Different Things in Different Countries
Article / Working Paper, Academic/Think TankWork on good governance implies a one-best-way model of effective government. This has isomorphic influences on development, whereby governments are influenced to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to get things done. This article challenges whether such an approach exists, proposing that models actually do not hold even for the so-called effective governments. Governments look different...
Problems Measuring Community Health Status at a Local Level: Papua New Guinea's Health Information System | The Communication Initiative Network
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankThis article highlights problems in evaluating community interventions or local service performance if reliable village-level data is absent. Published in Rural and Remote Health 10: 1539, it draws on an evaluation of a nationwide donor project community development initiative implemented over 7 years (1998-2004) in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The initiative sought to increase community support for...
Pakistan Floods 2010 – Rapid Gender Needs Assessment of Flood-Affected Communities
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, UN WomenPakistan Floods 2010 – Rapid Gender Needs Assessment of Flood-Affected Communities Following the floods in the Summer of 2010 that have affected the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Pakistan, UNIFEM is working to ensure that gender concerns are fully integrated into relief and recovery operations. In particular, UNIFEM focuses on supporting assessments of the conditions and needs of...
Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence – An Analytical Inventory of Peacekeeping Practice
Africa, Conflict, Guide / Manual / Indicators, UN WomenAddressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence – An Analytical Inventory of Peacekeeping Practice Author/Editor(s): UNIFEM, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict Despite increased attention to the women, peace and security agenda since the UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1325 in October 2000, major analytical and...