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Benchmarks for Electoral Standards: A Guide for European Union Election Observation Missions
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Latin America and the Carribean, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyAuthors/Editors: Mark Stevens and Anders Eriksson Election observation missions are tasked with assessing the conduct of an election in accordance with best practices and with reference to various international and regional standards for elections, which respective countries have voluntarily agreed to adhere to. This guide brings together many of the key international and regional standards...
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...
Standards of Municipal Transparency (Chile)
Civil Society, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Latin America and the Carribean, Global IntegrityThe objective of the standards of municipal transparency is to provide a model guaranteeing access to information in all municipalities of Chile. The “standards of municipal transparency”focus on “active transparency”, i.e. on the availability and clarity of information that a municipality should provide to citizens on a continuous basis, through a webpage and...
Pro-Poor Governance and the Policy Process: A Framework
GAP, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, UNDP ProducedThis framework serves as a tool for assessing the extent to which policy making processes are pro-poor and to help in diagnosing the necessary corrective actions for enhancing poverty sensitivity of policy processes. The framework is applied to experiences of participatory budgeting in Latin America. This paper provides a conceptual framework for assessing the pro-poor characteristics of policy...