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Oslo Governance Centre 2012: A Year in Review
Civil Society, Conflict, Democracy, GAP, Governance and Environment, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, ReportThis document looks back at 2012 and highlights the work of UNDP's Oslo Governance Centre, including new areas of work in support of UNDP’s results in Democratic Governance at country, regional and global level.
Middle East and North Africa Report
Arab States, Conflict, Electoral Systems, Human Rights, Justice, Report, Academic/Think TankThe Syrian regime is losing ground to armed rebels, while the exiled opposition is in chaos Information coming from Syria points to the accelerating erosion of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. While the possible repercussions of the massacre perpetrated in Houla on May 25th remain unclear, the regime hasmore and more reason to be nervous. The “poison operation” conducted against top security figures on...
What’s the Goal? What’s the Purpose? Observations on Human Rights Impact Assessment
Human Rights, Report, Civil SocietyThis publication is part of the background material for the The Oslo Governance Forum (OGF). The OGF took place on 3-5 October 2011, and was organised by the UNDP’s Democratic Governance Group in collaboration with United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), ActionAid, ACT Alliance, World Bank Institute and PRIA Global Partnership. The Forum focused on participatory governance assessments and...
Indonesia Country Assessment: The Asia-Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Human Rights, Justice, Report, UNDP ProducedAuthors/Editors: Ana Patricia Graça and Andrea Davis This report presents the assessment findings of the DGTTFsupported Indonesia project Strengthening Access to Justice and the Rule of Law (A2J Assessment Project). The country study is an assessment and not a project evaluation. It provides an overall analytic review of results, rather than an evaluation of progress. It aims mostly to...
Measuring the Progressive Realization of Economic and Social Human Rights in Brazil: A Disaggregated Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Indexi
Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Academic/Think TankThis paper summarizes findings and conclusions from our application of the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index developed by Fukuda-Parr, Lawson-Remer and Randolph (2009) to the states of Brazil. The key features of this methodology in assessing economic and human rights fulfillment is the focus on state obligations rather than only on human outcomes, and reference to both level of...
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...
State of the Union: South Africa Report
Africa, Civil Society, Democracy, Human Rights, 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. The State of the Union project tracks and...
National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) Training for AIDS Budget Unit Research Partners - Namibia
Africa, Human Rights, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Report, Civil SocietyThis training workshop was organized in order to equip the research partners on the main research tool which they will use to carry out research on “HIV/AIDS financing and spending: A local government perspective”. This was a follow up to the methodology workshop organized by Idasa-GAP which was held in Tanzania in 2009. This report summarizes the methodology and...
Human Rights Watch World Report 2010
Human Rights, Report, Civil SocietyThe 612-page report, the organization's 20th annual review of human rights practices around the globe, summarizes major human rights trends in more than 90 nations and territories worldwide, reflecting the extensive investigative work carried out in 2009 by Human Rights Watch staff. The volume's introductory essay by Executive Director...
The State of the World’s Children Special Edition: Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyIn commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 20 November 2009, UNICEF is dedicating a special edition of its flagship publication The State of the World’s Children to child rights. The report broadly assesses the Convention’s impact on children’s well-being and human development during the past two decades,...