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Check My School l A Case Study on Citizens’ Monitoring of the Education Sector in the Philippines
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis is report presents a case study of work being done in the Philippines -- an approach that combines on-the-ground community monitoring with ICT tools. Check My School (CMS) is a community monitoring project that aims to promote transparency and social accountability in the Philippine education sector by tracking the provision of services in public schools. The project uses a blended approach...
Poland: Developing Good Governance Indicators for Programmes Funded by the European Union
Europe and CIS, Framework, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis report proposes a practical, country-based framework for developing good governance indicators for programmes funded by the European Union.
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....
The little data book on Africa 2012/13
Global Index, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe little data book on Africa 2012/13 is a pocket edition of Africa Development Indicators (ADI) 2012/13. It contains some 115 key indicators on economics, human development, governance, and partnership and is intended as a quick reference for users of the Africa development indicators 2012/13 book and ADI online. The country tables present the latest available data for World Bank member...
Data | The little data book on gender in Africa 2012/13
Global Index, Governance and Gender, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe little data book on gender in Africa 2012/13 is a pocket edition of Africa Development Indicators (ADI) 2012/13. It contains some 60 key indicators on economics, human development, and empowerment and is intended as a quick reference for users of the Africa development indicators 2012/13 book and ADI online. The country tables present the latest available data for World Bank member...
Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Inter-Governmental OrganizationRapidly rising attention to the quality of governance in developing countries is driving explosive growth in the use of governance “indicators” by international investors, donors of official development assistance, development analysts and academics. This study helps both users and producers of governance indicators to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the best and most widely used...
Measuring Governance
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe use of governance indicators, as applied to developing countries, has grown spectacularly in recent years. Following the maxim that you cannot manage what you cannot measure, international investors and official development aid agencies, together with academics and the media, have turned widely to using quantitative governance indicators for both analytical and decision-making purposes –...
Impact Evaluation Toolkit
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe Impact Evaluation Toolkit is a hands-on guide on how-to design and implement impact evaluations. While many parts of the toolkit can apply to impact evaluation in general, the focus of the toolkit is to help evaluate the impact Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects in the health sector on maternal and child health. The toolkit is structured as follows: For each stage of the impact...
SADC Gender Barometer 2011
Global Index, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe third Southern Africa Gender Protocol of 2011 Barometer which moves into high gear with the introduction of the SADC Gender and Development Index (SGDI) that complements the Citizen Score Card (CSC) that has been running for three years. With empirical data on 23 indicators in six sectors, the SGDI puts SADC countries at 64% of where they need to be by 2015: the target date for meeting the...
Guide to Statistics in European Commission Development Co-operation
Civil Society, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis publication is a key tool for developing, assessing and evaluating aid programs. This comprehensive guide is organized in four parts, the first of which - part A - is devoted to how to use it. It refers to practical examples of statistical projects, policies and strategies that are developed throughout the rest of the guide, making it a user-friendly guide for development practitioners. ...