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Report | WJP Rule of Law Index
Justice, Report, Civil SocietyThe WJP Rule of Law Index® is an innovative quantitative assessment tool designed by the World Justice Project offering a detailed and comprehensive picture of the extent to which countries adhere to the rule of law in practice. It provides original data regarding a variety of dimensions of the rule of law, enabling the assessment of a nation’s adherence to the rule of law in practice, identify...
Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit
Framework, Justice, Other UN AgencyThe Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit is a standardized and cross-referenced set of tools designed to enable United Nations agencies, government officials engaged in criminal justice reform, as well as other organizations and individuals to conduct comprehensive assessments of criminal justice systems; to identify areas of technical assistance; to assist agencies in the design of...
NDI's Standard-based Questionnaire - Towards the Development of International Standards for the Functioning of Democratic
Justice, Questionnaire , Civil SocietyThe questionnaire allows respondents to compare their legislature to the norms and basic functions of other democratic legislatures, and identify best practices and lessons learned. It provides a comprehensive checklist which can be used as a diagnostic tool to assess legislative procedures, both in formal and 'in practice'. The questionnaire consists of two-part questions. The first...
Framework: Global Best Practices - A Model Annual State of the Parliament Report
Framework, Justice, Parliament, Civil SocietyAuthors/Editors: Keith Henderson The objective of this working white paper is to present a strategic monitoring and reporting framework that can be used by all stakeholders to ensure that parliaments have the capacity, independence and support necessary to fulfill their constitutional responsibilities to both the government and the people they are supposed to represent. This paper is primarily...
Judicial Transparency Checklist
Corruption, Justice, Questionnaire , Civil SocietyAuthors/Editors: Keith Henderson, Violaine Autheman, Sandra Elena, Luis Ramirez-Daza & Carlos Hinojosa The following checklist/ search questions is/are intended to provide multiple constituencies, such as judges, reformers, civil society, researchers and donors, with many of the key indicators needed to assess, report and monitor the level of transparency of judiciaries and judicial...
Diagnostic Checklist: Combating Corruption in Judicial Systems Advocacy Toolkit
Corruption, Framework, Justice, Global IntegrityThis guide aims to help TI chapters and other civil society groups to undertake effective advocacy to combat judicial corruption. In addition to providing basic advice about conducting advocacy, it provides examples from TI chapters of work on judicial corruption, including monitoring the process of selecting Supreme Court judges (Ecuador), monitoring actual cases(Ghana) and diagnosing corruption...
Sharing Justice Information: a Capability Assessment Toolkit
Framework, Justice, Academic/Think Tank, GovernmentThis toolkit is designed for justice professionals to use when considering or planning a justice information-sharing initiative. It provides a process for assessing where capability for informationsharing exists and where it must be developed in order to achieve public safety goals. Assessment results provide a basis for action planning to fill capability gaps both within and across...
Questionnaire: Etude sur la performance et le fonctionnement de la justice militaire: Fiche technique et terms de reference
Africa, Corruption, Justice, Questionnaire , Civil SocietyQuestionnaire developed for evaluation of the military justice system in DR Congo, Africa. Areas covered in the questionnaire includes the following: Legal and Institutional Framework Jurisdiction of Military Tribunals Operation and Performance of Military Tribunals Independence of Military Judges Fair Trail
Questionnaire: Justice Sector and the Rule of Law
Africa, Justice, Questionnaire , Civil SocietyThis open ended questionnaire is designed to feed into reports on government performance in the area of justice and the rule of law. The reports not only document the main institutional issues surrounding independence of the judiciary, government respect for court orders etc; but also evaluate the usefulness of the justice system to ordinary citizens. Areas covered in the questionnaire...
Questionnaire on the Proceeds of Corruption
Corruption, Justice, Public Administration, Questionnaire , Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis publication contains the questionnaire used for the fourth GRECO evaluation round launched in January 2003. GRECO evaluation procedures involve the collection of information through questionnaire(s), on-site country visits enabling evaluation teams to solicit further information during high-level discussions with domestic key players, and drafting of evaluation reports. These reports,...