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Transparency for Inclusive Governance: An assessment of India
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Report, Civil SocietyAuthor: Pranjal Sharma. The euphoria of India as a regional power has been dented by talk of systemic corruption, poor public services, nagging problems of unemployment, illiteracy and poverty and demographic challenges. Establishing a strong sense of credibility in government and the development of adequate capacity for enforcement must also be addressed to ensure the success of India’s efforts...
Global survey on internet privacy and freedom of expression
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, E-Governance, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyThis publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The report maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint of freedom of expression. It provides an overview of legal protection, self-regulatory guidelines,...
Bogor 2012: Workshop Report
Asia and the Pacific, Land Governance, Report, UNDP ProducedThis workshop report presents the outcome of the Participatory Governance Assessments Knowledge Exchange Meeting 17-18 April 2012, Bogor - Indonesia. The UN-REDD Programme is currently piloting four PGA pilots (Ecuador, Nigeria, Vietnam and Indonesia) which are in different stages of preparation and implementation. In our dialogue with the PGA practitioners and stakeholders, they have expressed...
Lessons Learned: Global Programme on Governance Assessment
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, ReportOn the heels of the Oslo Governance Forum, UNDP convened projects supported by the Global Programme on Governance Assessments from around the world. This one-day workshop collected and compared the lessons learned from experiences in 16 countries. This report draws on those experiences, as well as the seven reviews and evaluations of UNDP’s governance assessments projects...
National Values Survey: Sri Lanka 2011
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Report, Civil SocietySri Lanka is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious society with four major religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Roman Catholicism. As the country emerges from decades of war, new ethno-religious dynamics are emerging which have implications for peace and coexistence between communities. This survey is meant to help uncover some of those dynamics. Within this complex and evolving ethno-...
Integrity Risk of Water Sector in Republic of Tajikistan
Asia and the Pacific, Corruption, Report, UNDP ProducedThis report provides an overview of the risk of corruption in the drinking water and irrigation sectors of the Republic of Tajikistan. Information and data used in the report were obtained as a result of research commissioned within the framework of UNDP project “Sector Integrity Vulnerability Risk Assessment in Water Sector of the Republic of Tajikistan”. Qualitative and quantitative methods...
Democratic Space in Asia-Pacific
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Report, Academic/Think Tank, UNDP ProducedThis 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...
China - Governance Assessments Project Assessment
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, ReportAuthors/Editors: Harry Garnett The project Support for the Development of a Governance Assessment Framework in China (2008) aimed to build a broad consensus on governance assessment, and establish a governance assessment framework in accordance with the realities of political development in China and based on the latest international research on governance assessments. The objective of this...
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...
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...