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Agenda: Regional Workshop: Governance for Citizen Security in Latin America
Civil Society, Event Material, GAP, Latin America and the CarribeanThe agenda for the Regional Workshop: Governance for Citizen Security in Latin America held in Brasília, Brazil from the 8th to the 9th of October 2012.
Database l United Nations Millennium Indicators - official data, definitions, methodologies and sources to measure progress towards the MDGs
Governance and MDG, Web Resource, Other UN AgencyThis site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The data and analyses are the product of the work of the Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG Indicators, coordinated by the United Nations Statistics Division. You will also find the official progress reports and documents...
Check My School l A Case Study on Citizens’ Monitoring of the Education Sector in the Philippines
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis is report presents a case study of work being done in the Philippines -- an approach that combines on-the-ground community monitoring with ICT tools. Check My School (CMS) is a community monitoring project that aims to promote transparency and social accountability in the Philippine education sector by tracking the provision of services in public schools. The project uses a blended approach...
Democratic Governance for Citizen Security in Latin America
Civil Society, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, UNDP ProducedIn the context of supporting countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in their efforts to strengthen citizen security and measure it more effectively, the OGC and UNDP Brazil organized the Regional Workshop on Governance for Citizen Security in Latin America: Developing South-South Cooperation to Manage Knowledge and Promote Governance Approaches to Citizen Security, in Brasília on October 8...
Global Peace Index 2013
Conflict, Global Index, Civil SocietyThe 2013 Global Peace Index report analyses the state of peace around the world, identifying trends in violence and conflict, as well as the key drivers of peace. The 2013 Global Peace Index (GPI) shows that the world has become less peaceful, with a sharp rise in the number of homicides worldwide: The world has become 5% less peaceful since 2008 Europe is the most peaceful region...
A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development - Post-2015
Governance and MDG, Report, Other UN AgencyThe High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda today released “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,” a report which sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development. The report calls upon the world to rally around a new Global...
Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy - The Role of Assessment in Educating Democratic Citizens - Vol 3, No 1 (2010)
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Democracy, Academic/Think TankAs the articles for this, the fifth issue of our journal, began to take final form, we realized that we had inadvertently compiled a “thematic section” on issues of evaluation and assessment. The fact that such a grouping of articles came together speaks to the salience of this matter for the field of practice and scholarship known as democratic citizenship education (DCE). Now more than ever, we...
Overview and Synthesis: The Political Economy of Fiscal Transparency, Participation, and Accountability around the World
Article / Working Paper, Economic Governance, Academic/Think TankThis publication brings together evidence from quantitative data and in-depth qualitative case studies. It finds that four main factors affect fiscal transparency, participation, and accountability across countries : 1) processes of political regime change and increasing political competition, 2) fiscal and economic crises, 3) corruption scandals and the media, and 4) external (...
The State of the World's Children 2013
Conflict, Report, Other UN AgencyChildren with disabilities and their communities would both benefit if society focused on what those children can achieve, rather than what they cannot do, according to UNICEF’s annual State of the World’s Children’s report. The report lays out how societies can include children with disabilities – starting with registering their births and allowing them access to vital health and social services...
Mapping the corruption assessment landscape
Article / Working Paper, Corruption, Global IntegrityThis paper reports on the results of a two-year stocktaking exercise to map the field of corruption assessments, undertaken as part of Transparency International’s GATEway project. Based on an analysis of more than 500 diagnostic tools, it presents some of the key trends and themes in corruption assessment work, and identifies important gaps which may need to be filled. Among other things, the...