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MDG Report 2012 l Assessing Progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals
Africa, Public Administration, Report, UNDP ProducedWith less than three years before the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target date of 2015, development practitioners, including agencies of the United Nations (UN), are already initiating consultations aimed at defining the contours of the post-2015 development agenda. Any meaningful discussion of Africa’s priorities after 2015 must, however, be grounded in Africa’s experiences and lessons...
Exploiting the Poor: Bureaucratic Corruption and Poverty in Africa
Article / Working Paper, Civil SocietyCorruption is a major source of slow development in Africa – the poorest region of the world. While extant research has focused on the causes and consequences of corruption at the macro-level, less effort has been devoted to understanding the micro-foundation of corruption, as well as the mechanisms through which poverty may be related to corruption and bribery. In this paper, we develop a simple...
Conflict Assessment Indicators
Conflict, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Civil SocietyThis publication provides an overview of the 12 indicators, their sub-indicators and what questions to ask when assessing a conflict. The indicators are used for the Fund for Peace’s conflict assessment. The indicators and questions covers the following areas: Demographic Pressures Refugees and IDPs Group Grievance Human Flight and Brain Drain Uneven Economic...
Guide to Gender Sensitive Indicators
DonorThe aim of this Guide is to promote conceptual and methodological understanding of indicators, with special emphasis on gender-sensitive indicators and offer suggestions and guidance for use of gender-sensitive indicators, with a particular focus on projects with an end-user focus. Annex 1 Definitions of key terms Annex 2 Criteria for the selection of indicators Annex 3 Examples of Region/...
TrustLaw Poll: Best and Worst Countries to be a Woman
Global Index, Academic/Think TankA TrustLaw global poll of experts ranks the world’s major economies in terms of how good they are for women
Gender Indicators for monitoring the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action on women in the ESCAP region
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Other UN AgencyThis publication represents one of UNESCAP’s efforts at developing a set of indicators with which to assess the degree of implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. The set of indicators is also developed on the basis of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as well as the Jakarta Declaration and Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women in Asian and the Pacific. The ever-growing need...
Report: Child Deprivation Indicators
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Civil SocietyDeprivation indicators specific to children have previously been developed and piloted in national income and living standards surveys in Ireland (Cantillon et al, 2004; Nolan and Farrell, 1990). Kerrins and colleagues (in press) further developed these indicators by critically assessing the conceptualisation of child poverty underlying Irish poverty measurement, developing possible dimensions of...
Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty
Governance and Gender, UN WomenProgress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty Author/Editor(s): Martha Chen, Joann Vanek, Francie Lund, James Heintz, with Renana Jhabvala and Christine Bonner This report marks the fifth anniversary of the UN Millennium Declaration and the tenth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action. It argues that unless governments and policymakers pay more attention to employment, and...
Users' Guide to Civil Society Assessments
Civil Society, GAP, Users' GuideThis Users’ Guide provides extensive guidance for users of civil society assessments, illustrated with specific examples. It includes a source guide of currently available civil society assessment methods, including, for each of them, a snapshot of its methodology, some details of its content, the implications for its use and an outline of its strengths and weaknesses. The Guide also...
People, power, and pipelines: Lessons from Peru in the governance of gas production revenues
Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Civil SocietyThis report suggests ways in which international financial institutions (IFIs) can improve their role in the extractives sector by giving greater support to SNGs in managing extractive industry risks and revenues and by drawing lessons from recent experiences in Peru. For IFI-supported initiatives in the extractive indus- tries to be successful in reducing poverty and improving well-...