Governance Assessment Portal

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About

The Governance Assessment Portal is co-ordinated by the Oslo Governance Centre of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), (Norway). The Portal aims to be a hub of information and a valuable entry-point on democratic governance assessments for the UNDP staff, national counterparts and the wider community of stakeholders with information on:.^[1]

• tools for assessing governance
• existing initiatives for measuring democratic governance at the national, regional and global level
• how to measure governance with regard to specific areas of governance such as corruption or local governance
• how to use global indicators more correctly
• opportunities to connect and share knowledge with other practitioners and experts.

The Portal is funded and managed through the global window of the UNDP Global Programme on Democratic Governance Assessments.

Progress Initiatives

Democratic Governance Assessments

The Democratic Governance Assessments aims to assist developing countries produce governance indicators to enable national stakeholders to better monitor performance in democratic governance reforms.^[2] The global programme develops the capacities of government, the national statistics office and civil society in order to reach this goal. Data collection, maintenance, analysis and creating national development plans for democratic governance are the main tasks. This Global Programme was started in 2008 and will end in 2011. It is a continuation of the Governance Indicators Project, which lasted from 2004 to 2007.

References

1. ↑ Governance Assessment Portal Website
2. ↑ Democratic Governance Assessments Website

See Also

• United Nations
• Global
• Governance
• Civic Engagement
  
• Worldwide Governance Indicators

External Links

• Governance Assessment Portal Website
• Democratic Governance Assessments Website (UNDP)
• UNDP Website
• United Nations Website

Progess Papers and Publications

• Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility 2009, Javier Fabra Mata, United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) & Sebastian Ziaja, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

• Measurement Methodologies for Legal Empowerment of the Poor 2008, Adam L. Masser, United Nation Development Programme (UNDP)

• A Users’ Guide to Measuring Local Governance 2008, Alexandra Wilde, Shipra Narang, Marie Laberge & Luisa Moretto, United Nation Development Programme (UNDP)

• Indicators for Human Rights Based Approaches to Development in UNDP Programming: A Users’ Guide 2006, Dr Todd Landman, Department of Government, University of Essex with Alexandra Wilde and Emilie Filmer-Wilson, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre & Thord Palmlund, HURIST.