Governance

Eldis governance assessments CDROM now available: Request your free copy!

23 March 2012

Since 2008 the Eldis project at IDS Knowledge Services has hosted an online resource library, The Eldis Governance Assessments dossier as part of a long-term partnership with the UNDP Global Programme on Democratic Governance Assessments. To mark the end of this collaboration Eldis collated a selection of documents from the library on to a CDROM. The disc contains over 200 resources from a range of different experts, institutions and organisations that work in the field of governance assessments. It is designed to provide detailed, practical information drawing upon evidence about what works, and identifying innovations in approaches, policy and practice. Eldis is trying to identify potential users for the CDROMs by means of a short survey (click here to download). If you would like to receive a copy, or to nominate possible beneficiaries, please fill in the questionnaire and send it by email to Jason Collodi, Eldis Governance Editor (j.collodi@ids.ac.uk).

Greening Development: Enhancing Capacity for Environmental Management and Governance

02 February 2012

This new publication from OECD (February 2012) outlines a number of steps to be considered when building capacity for greening national development planning, national budgetary processes and key economic sector strategies. The report identifies the key actors to be engaged in the decision-making processes, outlines possible capacity needs and suggests how these can be addressed.

Perverse governance: State incapacity by design in Bihar, India

20 August 2011

Poor governance is often attributed to historical and structural factors that are difficult to change: “it is there because it is there, or because of a legacy of pathologies like colonial rule and an unnatural degree of socio-linguistic diversity." IDS Working Paper 366 (May 2011) by Santhosh Mathew and Mick Moore explores the role of individual agency and the incentives and opportunities that powerful political insiders may face to weaken state capacity in their own interests. It focuses on governance practices during the tenure of Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, from 1990 to 2005.

Micro methods in evaluating governance interventions

18 June 2011

Although billions of dollars have been invested on improving governance in developing countries in the past decade, few of the programmes that have received funding have been subjected to strong and rigorous impact evaluation. The aim of this discussion paper from the German Development Institute (DIE) is to answer three key questions: what are the features of governance interventions that make rigorous impact evaluation difficult and challenging? Second, what aspects of governance have been evaluated by rigorous quantitative methods? And third, what evaluation lessons can we learn from previous experience and what practical implications does it have?

Strengthening stakeholder ownership for capacity development results: A conceptual framework

19 May 2011

This 48-page paper published by the World Bank Institute (WBI) in May 2011 seeks to deepen understanding of the importance of stakeholder ownership in achieving development goals. It describes the conceptual framework and processes that underpin WBI's approach - the Capacity Development Results Framework -  which aims to bring about development outcomes by supporting institutional change.

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19 May 2011

high-level workshop entitled: “Global changes, emerging players and evolving ACP-EU relations: towards a common agenda for action?” The seminar will take place at ECDPM Maastricht on 30th June and 1st July 2011 and will be attended by 60 key stakeholders from diverse ACP and EU institutions.

high-level workshop entitled: “Global changes, emerging players and evolving ACP-EU relations: towards a common agenda for action?” The seminar will take place at ECDPM Maastricht on 30 ^th June and 1 ^st July 2011 and will be attended by 60 key stakeholders from diverse ACP and EU institutions.