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Empowering women for stronger political parties
Users' Guide, UNDP ProducedThis publication identifies targeted interventions for promoting the stronger presence and influence of women in political parties as well as advancing gender equality issues in party policies and platforms. The lessons learned and common strategies in this Guide are drawn mainly, but not exclusively, from 20 case studies that were commissioned by UNDP and conducted by NDI during 2009-2010. The...
Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility
Conflict, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Users' Guide, Academic/Think Tank, UNDP ProducedState fragility has become a buzzword in international development policy, leading to a dramatic explosion in the production of indices to rank countries according to levels of fragility. Despite this proliferation, no systematic analysis of such indices has yet been produced. The Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility aims to meet this need by providing a rigorous, comprehensible and...
Users' Guide for Measuring Public Administration Performance
GAP, Public Administration, Users' GuideThis Guide responds to a growing demand for more operational and nationally-owned measurement tools for public administration. It critically reviews the existing assessment tools and information sources which are readily accessible online. It provides practical guidance drawing on scenarios, and provides an exhaustive inventory of existing assessment tools and methodologies. The Guide is...
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...
Engaging with Parliaments: advice to civil society
Africa, Civil Society, Parliament, Users' Guide, Civil SocietyThis paper provides concrete suggestions that will assist well-informed civil society leaders who wish to influence their own parliaments to achieve legislative and social change. The challenges and best practices highlighted in this paper are based on the author’s work advising and training more than 120 civil society organisations in the Balkans, Middle...
A Users' Guide to Measuring Local Governance
GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Users' Guide, UNDP ProducedThis Guide is intended to respond to an increasing demand from UNDP Country Offices and a wide range of national stakeholders for guidance on the multiplicity of tools and methods that are being used to measure, assess and monitor governance at the local level.The guide contains an extensive source guide with more than 20 ready-made tools for assessing local governance. The guide, excluding the...
A Users' Guide to Measuring Gender-Sensitive Basic Service Delivery
GAP, Governance and Gender, Users' Guide, UNDP Produced, Other UN AgencyThe delivery of gender-sensitive basic services for women is a prerequisite for development. The current global development objectives, the Millennium Development Goals, will not be achieved unless and until women are able to contribute to and benefit from development on equal par with men. This Users’ Guide on Gender-Sensitive Indicators of Basic Service Delivery...
Governance Indicators in the Philippines: A Users' Guide
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Local Governance and Decentralization, Users' Guide, Academic/Think Tank, UNDP ProducedThis guide provides basic information on various institutions engaged in establishing and identifying governance indicators generally used in the Philippines. The guide is also useful for matching the supply of indicators with political demand. This Users’ Guide provides basic information on various institutions engaged in establishing and identifying governance indicators generally...
Indicators for Human Rights Based Approaches to Development in UNDP Programming: A Users' Guide
GAP, Human Rights, Users' Guide, Civil SocietyThis is a practically oriented Guide on indicators for human rights based approaches to development programmes for UNDP Country Offices (COs). The Guide contains separate sections on different aspects relating to the development and use of indicators across the key elements of human rights programming. The Guide summarizes the normative evolution in human rights and explains how human...
A Users’ Guide to Measuring Corruption
Corruption, GAP, Users' Guide, UNDP Produced, Civil SocietyA Users' Guide to Measuring Corruption, jointly produced by UNDP and Global Integrity, is one of the first attempts to explore how best to use existing tools to measure what is increasingly viewed as one of the major impediments to development: corruption. A Users’ Guide to Measuring Corruption is targeted at national stakeholders, donors and international actors involved in corruption...