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Guidelines on Open Government Data for Citizen Engagement
Civil Society, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, Other UN AgencyOver the last decade an increasing number of citizens around the world have demanded that their fundamental right to engage in policy making and policy implementation be recognized and that their governments become more transparent and accountable. Responding to recognition of the rights of citizens, governments across the world have embraced the concept of ‘Open Government’ including three...
DataGov | Tracking and analyzing governance around the world
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Democracy, Economic Governance, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Public Administration, Web Resource, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe DataGov database provides country and regional scores from publicly available sources. The Database provides a user-friendly interface for accessing most of the publicly available indicators related to governance. The interactive tool permits users to easily produce cross-national comparative and time series graphs and tables for immediate printing or for export to standard office software....
Internal Government Assessments of the Quality of Governance in China
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Academic/Think TankAuthoritarian governments produce internal assessments of the quality of governance that allow them to identify and address brewing problems before they threaten regime stability. This paper provides a theory of how the information necessary to produce such assessments is gathered. The empirical focus of the paper is on China, which is used to illustrate how information-gathering channels in...
STATE OF CIVIL SOCIETY 2013: Creating an enabling environment
Civil Society, Report, Civil SocietyThis report contains insight from over 50 civil society experts from around the world. Amidst the challenges facing civil society, the CIVICUS State of Civil Society 2013 report highlights good practices around the world and challenges on the horizon for citizens and civil society around the world. In the publication the following is assessed: Rising fundamentalism threatening women's and...
Oslo Governance Centre 2012: A Year in Review
Civil Society, Conflict, Democracy, GAP, Governance and Environment, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, ReportThis document looks back at 2012 and highlights the work of UNDP's Oslo Governance Centre, including new areas of work in support of UNDP’s results in Democratic Governance at country, regional and global level.
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...
Working Paper | Mobilisation associative et politique des citoyens maliens : les disparités socioéconomiques et régionales
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Academic/Think TankLe degré d’engagement associatif et/ou politique des citoyens constitue le thermomètre du dynamisme démocratique et civique d’un pays. Cet engagement est notamment indispensable dans les jeunes démocraties encore fragiles et pauvres comme celle du Mali. Il s’agit, dans le cadre de cette étude, d’évaluer, à l’aune de la participation politique et associative, l’engagement citoyen au Mali. Pour...
Citizen-led accountability Recommendations and key research findings for the post-2015 agenda
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Academic/Think TankPeople living in the greatest poverty and marginalisation want institutions at all levels that they can trust and are accountable, responsive and effective. According to the poorest and most marginalised groups in over 100 countries, a global framework must guarantee development that leaves no one behind; which does not demand impossible choices of the poorest and most vulnerable; which...
Citizen-Centric Governance Indicators: Measuring and Monitoring Governance by Listening to the People
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Academic/Think TankThis paper discusses governance indicators purporting to measure various aspects of governance quality. It argues that if governance assessments have to be useful for policy purposes, they must conceptualize governance and provide uniform and consistent criteria for measuring governance across countries and over time. The first section discusses the conceptual issues in measuring governance...
Human Development Reports 2013
Civil Society, Report, UNDP ProducedThe 2013 Human Development Report is part of the series of global Human Development Reports published by UNDP since 1990 as independent, empirically grounded analyses of major development issues, trends and policies. The 2013 Human Development Report – "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World" – examines the profound shift in global dynamics driven by the fast-rising new powers...