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Governance assessments for local stakeholders: What the World Governance Assessment offers
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankThis report introduces the basic features of the World Governance Assessment (WGA) and highlights main findings of the second round of WGA that was conducted in 10 countries in the global South during 2006. The report also presents an overview of the methodology and the special Study Management System, a capacity-building component that is also an important part of what WGA offers. The...
Indicators: Levels, Types, Existing and New (ppt)
Civil Society, Local Governance and Decentralization, Presentation, Academic/Think TankPrepared by Ken Mease, this powerpoint presentation held at the Workshop on Governance Assessment Methods and Applications of Governance Data in Policy-Making (Cairo June 2009), looks at indicators more closely, and discusses definitions of indicators, macro and micro levels for constructing indicators, different advantages of de jure and de facto indicators, triangulation, indexes versus scales...
Understanding and Programming for Linkages: Democratic Governance and Development
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, UNDP ProducedThis paper underlines the importance of redefining progress as a process that requires democratic ownership poverty reduction efforts. It understands democratic ownership as engagement of society in meaningful participation in planning, budgeting implementation and monitoring. It provides a critical look at currently used discourse in the development assistance community regarding the necessity...