Governance
Up one levelThe quality and methods of governance, of how government engages its citizens in their country’s decision making, are crucial issues anywhere, but especially in developing countries, and even more so in those moving towards a democratic transition. This section of the BurmaGuide.Net includes resource summaries regarding best governance practices from the United Nations and non-governmental groups.
Democracy and Governance - A Conceptual Framework
This publication describes the USAID Center for Democracy and Governance’s approach to democracy and governance assistance programs by presenting ...
Handbook of Democracy and Governance Program Indicators
This handbook was developed to enhance the ability to monitor progress in achieving planned results and use performance information to guide program ...
USAID Handbook on Legislative Strengthening
This handbook is intended to assist informed decisions with regard to legislative strengthening strategies. It outlines a framework for assessing the ...
Status Note on Development of UNDP Governance Indicators
UNDP seeks to develop a set of non-ranking governance indicators to be used by developing countries to be used to enhance governance capacity and ...
UNDP AND GOVERNANCE - Experiences and Lessons Learned
This report traces the evolution of UNDP’s approach to governance and summarizes key trends and programmed activities necessary for sustainable ...
Civil Service Reform in Jamaica
This report assesses the reforms by the Jamaican government over the years, including the relationship between reform, good governance and ...
Public Service Reforms in Singapore
The Singapore civil service is one of the most efficient and least corrupt in the world with some of the highest paid civil servants. This dicusses ...
Center for Participatory Governance
This site contains background organizational information as well as links to CPaG’s programs on community development, capacity building, ...
Governance - Past, Present, Future
This paper is about the ‘governance’ reforms needed to meet the human development challenges of the Millennium Declaration.
Decentralized Governance Programme
Decentralizing governance, from the centre to regions, districts, local governments/authorities and local communities, can be an effective means of ...
Civil Society and Right to Information - a Perspective on India’s Experience