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Guidelines on Open Government Data for Citizen Engagement
Civil Society, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, Other UN AgencyOver the last decade an increasing number of citizens around the world have demanded that their fundamental right to engage in policy making and policy implementation be recognized and that their governments become more transparent and accountable. Responding to recognition of the rights of citizens, governments across the world have embraced the concept of ‘Open Government’ including three...
Guide | Les indicateurs de gouvernance des organismes publics en réponse aux enjeux du développement durable
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, GovernmentCe guide vise à fournir une démarche de diagnostic de la stratégie de développement durable et de sa bonne gouvernance au sein des établissements publics et entreprises publiques. Ce diagnostic s'effectue dans un premier temps sur la base de l'identification d'un ensemble d'indicateurs de bonne gouvernance des Organisations en réponse aux enjeux du développement durable et dans un second temps...
Impact Evaluation Toolkit
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe Impact Evaluation Toolkit is a hands-on guide on how-to design and implement impact evaluations. While many parts of the toolkit can apply to impact evaluation in general, the focus of the toolkit is to help evaluate the impact Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects in the health sector on maternal and child health. The toolkit is structured as follows: For each stage of the impact...
Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI)
Asia and the Pacific, GAP, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, UNDP Produced, Other UN Agency, Civil SocietyThe Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) is a joint research collaboration between CECODES, the Viet Nam Fatherland Front (VFF), and UNDP Vietnam. PAPI systematically measures and monitors the performance of governance and the public administration system at the provincial level in Viet Nam. By capturing citizens’ experiences of public administration and...
Measuring Regulatory Performance
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationNow more than ever, OECD countries are investing significant resources in regulatory policies and reforms. At the same time, governments are under increasing pressure to explain such reforms and their benefits to the public. Perception surveys are an important part of this process and they are being used by OECD members to measure how citizens and businesses view regulation in their countries...
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2009 - Codebook
Democracy, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, Civil SocietyThis is a code book to measure the need and capacity for reform using sustainable governance indicators in a given country. It breaks down the main indicators into status of democracy, economic and policy-specific performance, executive capacity and executive accountability and assigns them status indexes. Under each of these main indicators, are sub-indicators which are...
The System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration
Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyThe System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration (SIEI) under the auspices of the Eurasian Development Bank consists of nine general and two consolidated indices that are aimed at assessing integration in the post-Soviet region, and cover various aspects of the regional integration process. The SIEI is built around several sets of indicators, including the integration of trade and labour...
The Statistics Newsletter for the extended OECD statistical network (July 2010)
Civil Society, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Latin America and the Carribean, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe Statistics Newsletter is published by the OECD Statistics Directorate. Table of Contents: Chile (member of OECD as of May 7th 2010): National Statistical Institute (INE) Survey of On-line Data Dissemination Practices for Government and International Statistics by the US Federal Reserve Board Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies: New...
Advocating for the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics: Country-level Toolkit
Africa, Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Media, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe Country-level Advocacy Toolkit aims to help NSS managers and statisticians in developing countries start their own advocacy work and to demonstrate the advantages of planning advocacy systematically. It gathers, in a single package, advocacy methodology, tools, tips and messages. The Toolkit deals with statistical advocacy at country-level. It focuses on statistical advocacy as a means to...
Communicating research for evidence-based policy making. A practical guide for researchers
Europe and CIS, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Media, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationIn today’s enlarged European Union, the demand for policy-relevant evidence is greater than ever before. Policymakers need accurate and timely input from the research community in order to assess socio-economic challenges and propose effective strategies for tackling them. This guide offers practical advice on how to build a functional communications interface between researchers and...