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Project Facts Viet Nam
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Presentation, Public AdministrationThe Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) is developed in the context of increasing demands for engaging citizens in monitoring and evaluation of policy implementation to feed evidence for subsequent policymaking. PAPI provides objective and evidence-based measures, based on citizens’ experiences and direct interactions, of the standards of provincial...
Project Facts Malawi
Africa, Civil Society, GAP, PresentationSince the end of Hasting Banda’s regime in 1994 Malawi has taken important strides towards deepening and consolidating democracy. This includes the introduction of a multi-party system and competitive elections. Political space has gradually opened up and civil society organizations are growing in numbers and potency. The electoral processes in the country are gaining more credibility and...
Project Facts Kazakhstan: Responsive governance for MDG acceleration
Europe and CIS, GAP, Presentation, Public AdministrationOver the period of the last 20 years Kazakhstan has significantly improved its human development record: Between 1990 and 2010, expected years of schooling increased by almost 3 years, the GNI per capita increased by 33 per cent, and although life expectancy at birth shows a slight decrease on the overall period, it has increased by 1.8 years since 2000 and continues on this increasing trend....
China Project Fast Facts
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, PresentationChina's recent development policies have witnessed a shift from a growth-oriented model to one that incorporates and places increasingly more emphasis on equality, inclusion, and balance as key factors. This shift has created new needs for the government and other social sectors to improve their understanding of, and capacity to exercise good governance. This document gives a quick presentation...
Case Briefs: Citizen Assessmen to Budget Transparency
Presentation, Civil SocietyCivil society organisations (CSOs) developed a new benchmarking exercise to assess and compare levels of budget transparency across countries in order to address a specific transparency problem: budget information may be available, but it is not useful. Since 2001, CSOs and academic institutions have implemented the Latin American Budget Transparency Index (Índice Latinomericano de Transparencia...
Draft of PGA’s Framework, Structure and Flow of Indicator Measurement on REDD+ Implementation in Indonesia (ppt)
Land Governance, Presentation, UNDP ProducedPresentation delivered at the working meeting 'Expert Meeting on PGA Indicator Set' held in Bogor, Indonesia, 14-15th of February 2012.
Selecting Indicators (ppt)
GAP, PresentationPresentation delivered at the rolling International Training Programme (ITP) 'Towards Local Democracy and Local Development through Local Government', that took place on the 1st. of September 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The ITP is a joint venture between the UNCDF and International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD).
Choosing an assessment framework (ppt)
GAP, Presentation, Public AdministrationPresentation delivered at the rolling International Training Programme (ITP) 'Towards Local Democracy and Local Development through Local Government', that took place on the 1st. of September 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The ITP is a joint venture between the UNCDF and International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD).
Stakeholder analysis for project design (ppt)
GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, PresentationPresentation delivered at the rolling International Training Programme (ITP) 'Towards Local Democracy and Local Development through Local Government', that took place on the 1st. of September 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The ITP is a joint venture between the UNCDF and International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD).
Governance assessments as a tool for enhancing social accountability (ppt)
GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, PresentationPresentation delivered at the rolling International Training Programme (ITP) 'Towards Local Democracy and Local Development through Local Government', that took place on the 1st. of September 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The ITP is a joint venture between the UNCDF and International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD).