Governance Assessments

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Through the Global Programme on Democratic Governance Assessments, UNDP seeks to assist developing countries in producing disaggregated and non-ranking governance indicators to enable national stakeholders to better monitor performance toward democratic governance reforms.

The aim of the Programme is to develop the capacities of governments, national statistical offices and civil society in the collection, maintenance and analysis of governance-related data and to assist development of an inclusive, consultative framework for systematic assessment and monitoring of democratic governance goals and targets expressed in national development plans.

UNDP currently provides financial and technical support to governance assessments projects across the world, including in Angola, Barbados, Bhutan, Chile, Djibouti, Egypt, FYR Macedonia, Indonesia, Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Senegal and Tajikistan.

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Contact us at governance.assessments@undp.org

Key Publications and Resources

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• Overview
  
• Governance Assessments
  
• Analysis and Learning
  
• Civic Engagement
  

• Forest Governance Assessments

• Gender and Democratic Governance in Development: Delivering Services for Women
• South-South Research Consortium on use of governance indicators in Africa

Governance Assessment Portal
The Governance Assessment Portal is a virtual resource centre for indicators, assessment frameworks and country studies. Here you can find data, articles, tools, statistics and case studies on measuring democratic governance. Get in contact with international experts and initiatives. Learn how to develop an index to monitor performance of public administration, sectors and services, where to find surveys for evaluating corruption, how to conduct a baseline for democracy, when to advocate for evidence based policy reform on local governance and decentralization in your country, and more.

• News

Users' Guides to Measuring

The series offers:

• A menu of indicators and tools ready to be used
• Guidance to comparative indices
• How-to conduct a country-led governance assessment
• Case studies and good practices
• Voices from the trenches

• Fragility
• Local Governance
• Gender
• Corruption
• Public Administration
• Comparative Governance Indicators