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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....
Project Facts Viet Nam
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Presentation, Public AdministrationThe Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) is developed in the context of increasing demands for engaging citizens in monitoring and evaluation of policy implementation to feed evidence for subsequent policymaking. PAPI provides objective and evidence-based measures, based on citizens’ experiences and direct interactions, of the standards of provincial...
Afghanistan: Public Financial Management Performance Assessment - an Executive Summary
Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis paper presents an assessment of the performance of Afghanistan's Public Financial Management (PMF) systems. The assessment is based on a performance measurement framework developed by the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) partnership program, which identifies a set of critical objectives of a PFM system and a standard set of high-level PFM indicators to assess...
Financial Management and Governance Issues in Pakistan
Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis report describes financial management and governance arrangements in Pakistan, identifies deficiencies in those arrangements, and presents recommendations to address those deficiencies. For the purposes of this study, financial management and governance arrangements are narrowly defined as being accounting and auditing arrangements and practices. It was prepared for the Asian Development...
Governance and public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia : unofficial payments, utilization and satisfaction, Vol. 1 of 1
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationUsing data from the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, this paper examines the levels of citizens' satisfaction with public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia and identifies some factors that may help explain variation in utilization and levels of satisfaction with service delivery. It finds satisfaction with public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia to be relatively high, and,...
Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI)
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, UNDP Produced, Other UN Agency, Civil SocietyThe Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) is a joint research collaboration between CECODES, the Viet Nam Fatherland Front (VFF), and UNDP Vietnam. PAPI systematically measures and monitors the performance of governance and the public administration system at the provincial level in Viet Nam. By capturing citizens’ experiences of public administration and...
Index of Economic Freedom: Executive Highlights
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Latin America and the Carribean, Public Administration, Civil SocietyThe 2010 Index of Economic Freedom covers 183 countries around the world, ranking 179 of them with an economic freedom score based on 10 measures of economic openness, regulatory efficiency, the rule of law, and competitiveness. The basic principles of economic freedom emphasized in the Index are individual empowerment, equitable treatment, and the promotion of competition. The results...
The Philippines’ governance indicators survey tools (ppt)
Asia and the Pacific, Presentation, Public Administration, UNDP ProducedPresentation delivered to the 2007 workshop on Measuring and Assessing Democratic Governance in Bangkok.
The state of local governance and public services in decentralized Indonesia
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Civil SocietyDecentralization has been implemented in Indonesia since 2001. Many efforts to improve it have been supported by international and bilateral donor agencies. The Governance and Decentralization Survey (GDS) is one of the initiatives that aim to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the governance and decentralization policy. This publication is about a GDS survey which...
Tracking public resources and measuring informal payments in Bangladesh: Lessons from the Bangladesh Social Sector Performance Surveys
Asia and the Pacific, Corruption, Public Administration, Report, Civil SocietyOxford Policy Management has recently undertaken Social Sector Performance Surveys in the Primary and Secondary Education Sectors in Bangladesh. The SSPS assesses whether public resources reach the service providers, and how effectively they deliver key social services. This briefing note focuses on the key findings and identifies the main lessons learned. The surveys covered primary and...