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A memo to the G8: Time to deliver on aid transparency

In the wake of the U.N. High-Level Panel Report on the Post-2015 Framework proposing a transformational agenda on transparency and a ‘Global Data Revolution’, there is no time like the present for the G-8 to be the game-changers and mobilise at the forefront of the open government movement. Much of the hard thinking and political legwork on aid transparency has already been done. The G-8 (and many others), agreed to take action at the High Level Forum on Aid Effectivness in Busan, South Korea more...

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D C on June 16, 2013

Global Peace Index 2013

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The last year has been marked by the rising intensity of the civil war in Syria and its geopolitical ramifications, the continued US withdrawal from Afghanistan alongside persistently weak performances by the major economies. These factors have contributed to the world becoming slightly less peaceful continuing the global slide in peacefulness which has now been in effect for the last six years. 2012 has also seen the continuation of two major contrasting themes for global peacefulness; the more...

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D C on June 16, 2013

OGP Rules of the Game

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Civil society advocates working on Open Government Partnership are making a tactical mistake. The OGP guidance on participation of civil society (which the Independent Reporting Mechanism uses as the standard to measure countries against) is far too broad, weak and focuses only on the drafting of a country’s initial action plan. There are just five basic steps that focus on ‘consultation’: we could and should do better. There is so much more we could be doing here, from using platforms like more...

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D C on June 16, 2013

Basic Statistics 2013

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Basic Statistics 2013 contains statistical indicators for 45 economies in the Asia and Pacific Region. The publication covers the indicators of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) such as the proportion of population living below $1.25 (PPP) a day, infant mortality rate, carbon dioxide emissions. It also contains data on basic economic indicators such as the gross domestic product (GDP), inflation rate, trade balance, external debt, fiscal balance, and others. Countries covered include more...

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D C on June 16, 2013

Data Act: Why Tech Companies Want it Passed

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Everyone cares about federal spending. Conservatives want to cut it; progressives want to expand it, at least for some programs. And everyone hates waste and fraud. So why is it so hard to get a handle on the federal checkbook? It’s an Open Data problem, and one that won’t be solved by the government’s new Open Data Policy. But it could be solved by the DATA Act – an imperfect acronym that stands for the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, Act. The leading advocate for the DATA Act more...

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D C on June 16, 2013

2013 State of Civil Society: Creating an Enabling Environment

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The 2013 CIVICUS State of Civil Society report comes within a global context that poses considerable challenges for civil society, as well as offering some opportunities. Economic crisis continues to affect the publics and governments of many countries, not least those of Europe and North America, where it has impacted on their governments’ engagements with developing countries, and the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, to a lesser extent, South Africa); it has also fostered more...

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D C on June 16, 2013

AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

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July 11-12, 2013 About this Meeting: This meeting of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition will focus on Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which guarantees everyone the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications. Since the launch of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition in 2009, its core activities have focused on engaging scientists and engineers in an international process to define this right and create more...

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John Daly on June 15, 2013

Institutionalizing Monitoring and Evaluation Systems : Five Experiences from Latin America

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Abstract:Many governments in the Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC) have gained an increased understanding of the value of M&E to help both governments and donors alike better understand what public investments and interventions work well, which do not, and the reasons why. Monitoring the performance of public programs and institutions helps increase their effectiveness, provides increased accountability and transparency in how public monies are used, and can inform the budgetary more...

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John Daly on June 15, 2013

Evaluation Systems, Ethics, and Development Evaluation

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Abstract:After some 65 years of international development assistance, it is still difficult to show the effectiveness of aid in ways that are fully convincing. In part, this reflects inadequacies in the evaluation systems of the bilateral, multilateral, and global organizations that provide official development aid. Underlying these weaknesses often are a lack of adequate resources to carry out evaluation, insufficient harmonization of evaluation systems to allow aggregation and comparisons, more...

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John Daly on June 15, 2013

The Road to Results : Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations

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Abstract:The analytical, conceptual, and political framework of development is changing dramatically. The new development agenda calls for broader understandings of sectors, countries, development strategies, and policies. It emphasizes learning and continuous feedback at all phases of the development cycle. As the development agenda grows in scope and complexity, development evaluation follows suit. Development evaluator are moving away from traditional implementation and output-focused more...

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John Daly on June 15, 2013

Sourcebook for Evaluating Global and Regional Partnership Programs : Indicative Principles and Standards

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Abstract: At the March 30-31, 2006, meeting of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/Development Assistance Committee (DAC) network on development evaluation, representatives of the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) presented their observations on the growing need to develop consensus principles and standards for the evaluation of Global and Regional Partnership Programs (GRPPs), based on their recent more...

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John Daly on June 15, 2013

Impact Evaluation : Techniques for Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs

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Abstract: Over the past 40 years, "active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their objective is primarily economic - to increase the probability that the unemployed will find jobs or that the underemployed will increase their productivity and earnings. ALMPs include job search assistance, training and retraining, and job creation programs (public works, micro-enterprise development, and wage more...

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John Daly on June 15, 2013

Why Higher Education is Essential to the Post MDGs Agreement

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This post was originally published by theCouncil on Foreign Relations. The post-Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework is currently being negotiated among governments and civil society participants around the world. Unlike the previous goals, which emphasized universalprimary education as a key aim, it is essential that any successor targets ensure a concomitant focus on tertiary education. The youth bulge is growing: young people between the ages of ten and twenty-four now more...

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Blair Glencorse on June 14, 2013

GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report: Interventions to increase levels of trust in society

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Key findings It is possible to discern that interventions concerned with transforming state-society relations necessarily involve or require raising trust levels within society and/or between state-society. However, only a few of these interventions present trust-building as a central or explicit objective.In contrast, descriptions of trust deficits in fragile states abound in governance and institutional reform programme documents.It appears some development agencies treat ‘trust’ as a cross- more...

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GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report: Multi-donor support mechanisms for civil society

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The experience of multi-donor support mechanisms for CSOs is mixed. There are a number of potential advantages for donors engaging in pooled funding strategies, including working with donors who have a stronger presence and a track record in a particular context, and reducing transaction costs in the medium- to long- term. However, experts indicate that the difficulties of providing support to CSOs can be compounded when multiple donors are involved. There can be a tendency to 'over-manage'. more...

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