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UNDP Practice Note on Democratic Governance Assessments
This Practice Note is based on the experiences of selected Country Offices and outlines the principal objective for UNDP’s engagement: to support national ownership, alignment and capacity development of national partners to enhance democratic governance.
Governance Indicators: A Users' Guide (2nd Edition)
This second edition of the Users’ Guide includes several new indicator sources and an updated version of those that were featured in the first edition.
Users' Guide for Measuring Public Administration Performance
This 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.
A Users' Guide to Measuring Local Governance
This 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, excluding the annexes, has also been translated to French and Spanish.
A User’s Guide to Measuring Gender-Sensitive Basic Service Delivery
The Guide is produced as part of a UNIFEM, UNDP, and Gender at Work initiative called Gender and Democratic Governance in Development, which aims to improve the governance of basic services provision to women.
A Users’ Guide to Measuring Corruption
A 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.
Training Manual for Measuring Corruption
This training manual, which can be accessed here, offers hands on tools and guidance to measuring corruption at the country level. Based on the Users' Guide to Measuring Corruption (2008) developed by Global Integrity and UNDP, it has been developed to help meet the growing global demand for capacity development in this area. The programme targets stakeholders who would like to learn the basics of corruption assessment methods. The manual itself is written for trainers, and provides step-by-step guidance and materials for adapting and delivering the training in any country. It includes presentation slides, materials for activities, evaluation sheets and facilitation tips. Rather than a rigid programme, it is best used as a menu of training topics and methods that users can adapt.
Communication Package for A Users' Guide to Measuring Local Governance
This Communication Package has been developed for the Users’ Guide to Measuring Local Governance. It is intended as a training aid, and includes presentation slides with talking points, as well as several group activities for applying the concepts and techniques, and for thinking through how these translate into local settings. It can be used for convening structured discussions with country stakeholders who are exploring the possibility of carrying out local governance assessments and who are seeking advice and guidance.
About the Global Programme on Democratic Governance Assessments
This brochure provides a quick introduction to key features of the programme and responds to questions such as: Why this programme? and: What does it offer?
Global Programme on Democratic Governance Assessments
This project document describes the UNDP approach, guiding principles, and how the programme aims to respond to country demand. It also provides an overview of services.
Measuring Democratic Governance: A Framework for selecting pro-poor and gender sensitive indicators
By presenting methods for generating pro-poor gender sensitive indicators, this framework assists policy-makers monitor and evaluate democratic governance at the country level.
Mapping of Corruption and Governance Measurement Tools in Sub-Saharan Africa
This mapping provides guidance to uses and limitations of 42 different international, national and local tools for measuring corruption in 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mapping of Corruption and Governance Measurement Tools in Latin American Countries
This mapping provides guidance to uses and limitations of nearly 100 different international, national and local tools for measuring corruption in 17 countries in Latin America.
Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration: Opportunities for Inclusive Participation and National Ownership
This report from the 2007 UNDP/CMI Bergen Seminar discusses the prinicples of national ownership, national capacity development,alignment and harmonization.
Indicators for Human Rights Based Approaches to Development in UNDP Programming - A Users Guide
This is a practically oriented Guide on indicators for human rights based approaches to development programmes for UNDP Country Offices (COs)
UNDP National Human Development Reports (NHDR) and the Use of Democratic Governance Indicators
Surveying more than 350 national human development reports, the study finds that democratic governance is receiving increasing attention.
Governance Indicators in the Philippines: A User's Guide
By providing basic information on various institutions engaged in establishing and identifying governance indicators generally used in the Philippines, this guide proves useful for matching the supply of indicators with political demand.
Rapid Assessment Report on Governance Indicators Sources and Use in the Philippines
The report identifies and maps existing governance indicators sources in the country, and assesses the extent to which policy makers make use of them.
Summary Review of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MDGS) Governance Indicators
This paper aims to inform discussions on the establishment of a system to monitor the implementation of the governance goals and strategies as articulated in Malawi's national development plan.
Democratic Governance Indicators: Assessing the State of Governance in Mongolia
This investigation is the first comprehensive study carried out in Mongolia for the purpose of developing democratic governance indicators. The study informs the monitoring of the parliament-approved 9th national Millennium Development Goal - democratic governance.
Planning a Governance Assessment: A Guide to Approaches, Costs and Benefits
Providing an overview of options, this guide advises on how to operationalize a country-led assessment based on the strategic principles of ownership and inclusive participation.
Measuring Democratic Governance: A training module for selecting and using democratic governance indicators that are pro-poor and gender-sensitive
This training consists of a Powerpoint presentation containing overheads and detailed notes for facilitators, handouts and posters for use during the training
Claiming the MDGs: An Empowerment Framework
The primary focus of this framework is on the most vulnerable groups – those who are not represented in the ‘average’ figures used to determine aggregate resource needs. The Empowerment Framework provides a guide to ‘what to look for’ when undertaking sector-based needs assessments to inform an MDGbased planning exercise.
Pro-Poor Governance and the Policy Process: A Framework
This 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 ofparticipatory budgeting in Latin America.
Understanding and Programming for Linkages: Democratic Governance and Development
This paper underlines the importance of redefining progress as a process that requires democratic ownership poverty reduction efforts. It understands democratic ownership as engagement of society in meaningful participation in planning, budgeting implementation and monitoring.
Measurement Methodologies for Legal Empowerment of the Poor
This paper draws on existing methodologies and theoretical frameworks and argues that a narrowly defined, subject-centric approach to measurement of legal empowerment is key to the monitoring of progress towards legally empowering the poor. It argues that broad macroeconomic indicators and topdown assessments are fundamentally incapable of examining important aspects.
Preliminary Survey on Donor Use of Governance Assessments
This preliminary survey is a desk study that compiles publicly available governance assessment documentation from international donor agencies and OECD member countries. It argues that there is not yet a harmonised definition of governance in use across donors as envisaged in the 2005 Paris Declaration.
The African Peer review Mechanism: Challenges for Good Governance
This keynote speech by Ms. Marie-Angelique Savané, Member of the APR Panel of Eminent Persons, at the UND and CMI Bergen seminar in 2007 on Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration, argues the APRM is still work in progress.
Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration
This paper argues that it is necessary to establish a new arena or a ‘third way’. A possible starting point could be to stimulate the undertaking of more self-assessments and peer-reviews. Although so far less frequently conducted than assessments by external parties, so-called self-assessments and peer-reviews may be more conducive with respect to fostering country ownership.
The Ghana APRM Process: A Case Study
This paper examines the context within which the Ghana APRM process was conducted, the nature of the assessment, the assessment process, and how the outcome of the assessment process was used. Ghana’s performance was generally hailed as a success, conferring on the country and his administration the APRM badge of good governance, even as initial independent assessments questioned if this reputation was fully justified.