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Diseño de un Mapa Municipal de Riegos de Corrupcion
Corruption, Framework, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, Civil SocietyThis tool aims to identify potential risks of corruption in the areas of local government performance. It aims to show what might happen with regards to corruption in local governments, if some of the most common risks are not avoided. The tool has four parts: Literature review; Development of a preliminary version of the map, containing concepts and assumptions about the risks of...
State of the Union Ghana Report 2010
Africa, Civil Society, Corruption, Democracy, Justice, Local Governance and Decentralization, Parliament, Report, Civil SocietyProduced by the State of the Union project, this 2010 report is one of ten country studies that assess the performance of Member States against key governance, economic, social, civil and political policy standards, and rights instruments. Although a historical approach has been used, the period under review is 2007-2009. Further details on the methodology can be found in the appendices...
The effectiveness of the state, intergovernmental relations, and the success or failure of the international strategy in Afghanistan
Arab States, Corruption, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Civil SocietyThis policy brief raises awareness about Afghanistan’s territorial structure and the current system of intergovernmental relations that are hindering effective delivery of public services. It highlights corruption as a symptom of this dysfunction manifesting the structural weaknesses in the Afghan state’s organization. It observes that the dysfunction hinders the...
Tools to Support Transparency at the Local Level
Corruption, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Local Governance and Decentralization, Other UN Agency, Global IntegrityA collaborative venture of Transparency International and UN-HABITAT, this Toolkit focuses on transparency and its importance for increasing accountability, for promoting more effective citizen participation and for combating corruption in cities. More fundamentally, however, the Toolkit argues that promoting transparency can not only improve accountability, but can essentially reinvent...
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...
The Impact of Decentralisation on Service Delivery, Corruption, Fiscal Management and Growth in Developing and Emerging Market Economies: A Synthesis of Empirical Evidence
Corruption, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Academic/Think TankThe paper reviews the empirical literature on the impact of decentralisations and provides a summary of the conclusions on its impacts on service delivery, corruption, fiscal management and growth. Decentralised public management continues to invite controversy and debate. Proponents of decentralisation consider it a panacea for reforming public sector in developing countries (Shah,1994, 1998)...
Assessment Toolkit for Promoting Integrity, Transparency and Accountability in Palestinian Local Governance Units
Arab States, Corruption, Framework, Local Governance and DecentralizationIn this sense, the toolkit serves to enhance the performance of the LGUs through identifying their strengths and weaknesses, and thus work on their reform, and improve their quantitative and qualitative competence to provide services to citizens effectively and consistently. This toolkit is designed to identify and measure the degree of integrity in the Local Government Units, in order to enable...
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...
Index of Responsibility,Transparency and Accountability (Macedonia)
Corruption, Europe and CIS, Framework, Local Governance and Decentralization, UNDP ProducedThe overall objective of this Index is to increase accountability, responsibility and transparency of local governments, which will foster better local governance at the local level. In particular, the Index is designed to make measurable assessments of the capacity of a given institution to combat corruption, by identifying those ‘points’ most vulnerable to corruption, the...