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Freedom in the World 2010: erosion of freedom intensifies
17 November 2010 | Book, Human Rights, Civil SocietyIn a year of intensified repression against human rights defenders and democratic activists by many of the world’s most powerful...
Social Watch Gender Equity Index 2009 (GEI)
05 November 2010 | Civil Society, Global Index, Governance and Gender, Civil SocietyThe Gender Equity Index 2009 computed by Social Watch shows that the gender gap is not narrowing in most countries and a majority of the countries...
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2008
11 November 2010 | Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Other UN AgencyUNHCR systematically gathers and reports statistics on populations of concern, including numbers, locations, demographic characteristics, as...
Resource dependence and budget transparency
16 November 2010 | Global Index, Parliament, Public Administration, Civil SocietyThis paper analyses the results of the Open Budget Survey 2008 - an evaluation of budget transparency in 85 countries. The...
Basic Capabilities Index 2009
26 November 2010 | Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Civil SocietySocial Watch developed theBasic Capabilities Index (BCI) as an instrument to monitor the evolution of basic indicators and make comparisons...
Human Development Report 2010
09 December 2010 | Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, UNDP ProducedThis year’s Report celebrates the contributions of the human development approach, which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our...
Strengthening African Governance: index of african governance results and rankings
15 October 2010 | Africa, Conflict, Electoral Systems, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Justice, Report, Academic/Think TankThe Index of African Governance is compiled and updated annually by a team of researchers at Harvard University and across Africa, under...
Strengthening African Governance: index of African governance result and rankings
14 November 2010 | Africa, Corruption, Global Index, Human Rights, Justice, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThe 2009 Index of African Governance seeks to measure the degree to which five categories of political goods - Safety and Security; Rule of Law,...
Partnership Governance Index in Indonesia (ppt)
23 November 2010 | Democracy, Presentation, Civil SocietyPresentation delivered by by Abdul Malik Gismar from the Kemitraan Research Institute, to the Workshop on Governance Assessment Methods and...
The World Governance Assessment (WGA) Survey (ppt)
07 December 2010 | Africa, Local Governance and Decentralization, Presentation, Civil SocietyPresentation delivered by Dr Justine Hunter, Namibia Institute for Democracy [NID], Namibia, to the workshop on Country-led Governance Assessments in...