'The operation provided budget support for critical economic governance reforms identified by the Transitional Government in order to promote longer-term economic governance and institutional development.'
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Participatory monitoring is a powerful tool to prevent and solve conflicts. The CAO gained extensive experience in this field during its involvement in the Yanacocha Project in Peru. The CAO has produced a series of monographs with lessons learned from its work around the Yanacocha mining project. This advisory piece takes these lessons one step further by providing hands-on guidance for implementing successful participatory monitoring programs. The report provides examples of practical models t more...
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This Update highlights the impacts and plans of the Forest Governance Learning Group in its country-based and international work. Over the past year, it has helped create impact including: the President in Uganda backing down on the give-away of forest reserves; high-level action on illegal logging in Mozambique; and shaping of the Ghana-EC Voluntary Partnership Agreement on legal timber
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For UNDP, the right to information is a key underpinning for work in democratic governance and is vital for promoting ‘open governance’ and the accountability of public decision makers as well as for strengthening transparency, participation and the rule of law. The right to information is not only fundamental for an open and democratic society but is a key weapon in the fight against poverty and in accelerating human development.
The UNDP Oslo Governance Centre convened a seminar on the more...
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The governance pathway, developed by the Institute for Solidarity in Asia, offers Philippine cities a vision and roadmap to achieve governance reforms and make democracy work. Thirty cities and two provinces have participated in a rigorous certification process that has improved city services, attracted investment, helped balance budgets, and raised citizens’ quality of life. Community groups participate in city planning and hold civic officials accountable for their promises, thereby deepenin more...
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Europe Media Monitor (EMM) is a joint project of European Union Directorate General-Joint Research Center and Directorate General Communication and is a free multi-language news aggregation platform.
The project includes real-time news analysis for medical and health-related topics (MedSys), with early warning alerts per category and country.
EMM gathers reports from news portals world-wide in 43 languages, classifies the articles, analyses the news texts by extracting information, aggregates more...
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'The Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit is a standardized and cross-referenced set of tools designed to enable United Nations agencies, government officials engaged in criminal justice reform, as well as other organizations and individuals to conduct comprehensive assessments of criminal justice systems; to identify areas of technical assistance; to assist agencies in the design of interventions that integrate United Nations standards and norms on crime prevention and criminal justice; and to a more...
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