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Questionnaire on MDGs and Human Rights
Europe and CIS, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Questionnaire , UNDP ProducedThis questionnaire is developed to gather local information and assess the progress on human rights in Armenia. Human rights are essential to achieving the MDGs. The questionnaire is grouped into 37 main questions and a number of sub-questions, and covers among other the following: economy & employment, social security, women rights & gender equality, financial conditions, and living...
Citizens' Feedback on Service Delivery - For Acceleration of the Millennium Development Goals (ppt)
Asia and the Pacific, Governance and MDG, Presentation, UNDP ProducedPresentation delivered at a workshop on the Oslo Governance Forum on Democratic Governance Assessments for Social Accountability, in Oslo 2011 In this PowerPoint, the Regional Director of the Asia and Pacific UN Millennium Campaign, Minar Pimple, presents citizens feedback as a tool to measure service delivery.
Impact of Governance Assessment Methodology on Social Inclusion in Education and Health Sectors in the Republic of Macedonia
Europe and CIS, Governance and MDG, Report, UNDP ProducedThe objective of this methodology is to provide the tools for assessing the governance in health and education with regard to social inclusion and poverty reduction. This methodology is developed to serve as a critical accountability mechanism for variety of stakeholders, especially the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia and non-state actors regarding the governance as well as to the...
UNDP Governance Assessment ‘Toolbox’ for MDG-based Planning and Implementation (ppt)
Governance and MDG, Presentation, UNDP ProducedPresentation delivered by Ethan Feltner, international consultant, to the Workshop on Indicators for the Right to Education London, July 2010.
Human Development Report 2010
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, UNDP ProducedThis year’s Report celebrates the contributions of the human development approach, which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our changing world and finding ways to improve people’s well-being. Indeed, human development is an evolving idea—not a fixed, static set of precepts—and as the world changes, analytical tools and concepts evolve. So this Report is...
The Bhutanese experience of MDG needs assessment and costing (ppt)
Asia and the Pacific, Governance and MDG, Presentation, UNDP ProducedPresentation delivered to the 2007 workshop on Measuring and Assessing Democratic Governance in Bangkok.
The ‘missing governance links’ in the MDG analysis (ppt)
Governance and MDG, Presentation, UNDP ProducedPresentation delivered to the 2007 workshop on Measuring and Assessing Democratic Governance in Bangkok.
Seminar Report Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration: Opportunities for Inclusive Participation and National Ownership
Civil Society, GAP, Governance and MDG, Report, UNDP Produced, Civil SocietyThe demand for measuring democracy, human rights and governance is increasing from international development partners. This report is a record of the proceedings of the UNDP and CMI Bergen seminar in 2007 on Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration. The report identifies the following three ways in which the Paris Declaration has changed governance assessments: Through a...
How should MDG Implementation Be Measured: Faster Progress or Meeting Targets?
Article / Working Paper, Governance and MDG, UNDP ProducedThis paper questions the methodology that is widely used to assess progress in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a methodology that asks whether the targets are likely to be met. This approach is inappropriate, since the MDGs were neither designed as nor intended to be planning targets. They were political commitments, made by world leaders, that define priorities in a...
Assessing Oneself: The Case of Mongolia
Asia and the Pacific, Governance and MDG, UNDP ProducedThis conference paper provides an overview of the process of self-assessment that took place in Mongolia. the process began in September 2003, when Mongolia hosted the Fifth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies. the sel-assessment results are available in the publication Democratic Governance Indicators: Assessing the State of Governance in Mongolia. In September 2003,...