Publications

 

Poverty Reduction

Governance Indicators:

• Governance Indicators: A Users' Guide, 2nd Edition (English, French, Spanish, Arabic)
  
  
• Measuring Democratic Governance: A Framework for selecting pro-poor and gender sensitive indicators
  
  
• Report on Corruption and Governance Measurement Tools in Latin American Countries (English, Spanish)
  
  
• Indicators for Human Rights Based Approaches to Development in UNDP Programming - A Users Guide (English, Spanish, French)
  
  
• UNDP National Human Development Reports (NHDR) and the Use of Democratic Governance Indicators
  
  
• Framework for Piloting Pro-Poor and Gender Sensitive Governance Indicators for Policy Reform
  
  
• Bibliography of governance and democracy indicators resources
  
  
• Sources for Democratic Governance Indicators
  
  
• Governance Indicators in the Philippines: A User's GuideRapid Assessment Report on Governance Indicators Sources and Use in the Philippines
  
  
• Summary Review of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MDGS) Governance Indicators
  
  
• Democratic Governance Indicators: Assessing the State of Governance in Mongolia
  

Land Governance:

OGC Briefs:

• OGC Brief 1: Land Policy and Governance: Gaps and Challenges in Policy Studies
  
  
• OGC Brief 2: Land Based Social Relations: Key Features of a Pro-Poor Land Policy
  
  
• OGC Brief 3: How Land Policies Impact Land-Based Wealth and Power Transfer
  
  
• OGC Brief 4: Pro-Poor Land Tenure Reform, Decentralisation and Democratic Governance

Discussion Papers:

• Discussion Paper 1: Democratic Land Governance and Some Policy Recommendations
  
  
• Discussion Paper 2: Gender, Land Rights and Democratic Governance
  
  
• Discussion paper 3: Pro-Poor Land Tenure Reform and Democratic Governance

Land Rights Reform and Governance in Africa: How to make it work in the 21st century?

Non-Renewable Natural Resources:

Creating Space for Civil Society: Diamonds for Development

 

Conflict:

LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND CONFLICT:

• Local Governments in Post-Conflict Environments, Commissioned Paper, Paul Jackson and Zoe Scott (2007)
  
  
• Report - Workshop on Local Government in Post-Conflict Situations: Challenges for Improving Local Decision Making and Services Delivery Capacities, Oslo, Norway, 28 – 29 November 2007

MISCELLANEOUS:

• Report - Governance, Conflict Prevention and Peace-building Community of Practice Workshop, Kathmandu, Nepal, 7 – 9 November 2006
  
  
• Citizenship, Political Violence and Democratization in Africa, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (2004)
  
  
• Somalia and Somaliland: Strategies for dialogue and consensus on governance and democratic transition, Commissioned Paper, Mohamud A. Jama (2003)

 

Civil Society:

Civil Society

• UNDP and Civil Society Organizations: a Toolkit for Strengthening Partnerships (2006)
  
• A Guide to Civil Society Organizations Working on Democratic Governance (2005)
  
• Millennium Development Goals: A Resource Sheet (2005)
  
• CSO Perspectives on Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Resource Sheet (2005)
  
• Experiences from the Field: UNDP-CSO Partnerships for Conflict Prevention (2005)
  
• Practical Guidance Note on Civic Education (2004)
  
• UNDP and Civil Society Organizations: Partners in Development (2003)
  
• Sourcebook on Building Partnerships with Civil Society Organizations (2002)
  
• UNDP and Civil Society Organizations: A Policy of Engagement (2001)
  
• UNDP and Indigenous Peoples: A Policy of Engagement (2001)

Political Parties

• UNDP's Engagement with Political Parties (2005)
  
• A Handbook on Working with Political Parties

Communication for empowerment

• Communication for Empowerment: Developing Media Strategies in Support of Vulnerable Groups (2006)
  
• Supporting Public Service Broadcasting: Learning from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s experience (2004)

Access to Information

• A Guide to Measuring the Impact of Right to Information Programmes (2006)
  
• Practical guidance Note on the Right to Information (2004)
  
• Access to Information Practice Note (2003)

 

Learning and Capacity Development:

 

Democratic Governance Fellowship Papers:

• Improving Human Security in Post-Conflict Cote d'Ivoire: A local governance approach
  Serge Yapo, Project Coordinator, UNDP Cote d'Ivoire
  
  
• The MDGs as a Communication Tool for Development
  Paola Pagliani, Policy Specialist, UNDP Serbia
  
  
• Measuring Democratic Governance in China
  Jing Li, Programme Manager, UNDP China
  
  
• UNDP and Indigenous Peoples: Towards effective partnerships for human rights and development
  Max Ooft, Assistant Resident Representative & Programme Specialist Governance, UNDP Suriname
  
  
• Doing Justice: How informal justice systems can contribute
  Ewa Wojkowska, UNDP Indonesia
  
  
• Effective Stakeholder Participation in the APRM Process for the Promotion of Democratic Governance: A Case Study of Ghana
  Eric Albert Opoku, Governance Programme Officer, UNDP Ghana
  
  
• Decentralisation and Biodiversity Management: opportunities to improve UNDP-GEF projects
  Tim Clairs, Team Leader & Regional Technical Advisor for Biodiversity, GEF Regional Coordination Unit, SURF-Arab States
  
  
• Civil Society and Right to Information: A Perspective on India's Experience
  Pradeep Sharma, Assistant Resident Representative, UNDP India
  
  
• Towards Democratic Governance: Emergence of the Concept of Governance in the Kingdom of Bhutan, alongside UNDP Assistance
  Minori Terada, Programme Analyst, Governance and Gender, UNDP Bhutan
  
  
• The Impact of Corruption on the Human Rights Based Approach to Development
  Thusitha Pilapitaya, Programme Analyst (Legal), UNDP Sri Lanka
  
  
• Addressing Human Insecurity in the Solomon Islands: RAMSI, the UN system, and New Approaches to Intervention
  Richard Ponzio, Team Leader, UNDP Kosovo’s Democratic Governance and Security Sector Teams
  
  
• Reflections on the State Institution-Building Support in Timor-Leste: Capacity development, integrating mission, and financial challenges
  Toshihiro Nakamura, Programme Specialist, BCPR, UNDP Geneva
  
  
• Fighting Corruption in Post-Communistic States: where are we now, where do we go from here?
  Tomas Anusiewicz, Regional Advisor,UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS
  
  
• Conflict in Central Africa, a Challenge for UNDP: An analysis of the dynamic of conflicts, the opportunities and constraints for UNDP with regard to conflict prevention
  Allassoum Bedoum, Programme Officer, UNDP Chad
  
  
• Building a Dynamic Democratic Governance and HIV Resilient Society: A Road Map
  Lee-Nah Hsu, Manager, UNDP South East Asia, HIV and Development Programme
  
  
• Democratic Decentralization and Poverty Reduction: The Bolivian Case
  Christian Jetté, Manager, Public Policy Specialist, UNDP Bolivia
  
  
• Gender Balanced Governance: Numbers in Support of Gender Mainstreaming
  Dina Shukorova, Manager, Project Coordinator, UNIFEM Regional Programme, Kazakhstan
  
  
• Development of a National Human Rights Action Plan - The Experience of Lithuania
  Tomas Baranovas, UNDP Lithuania
  
  
• Judicial Independence in Transitional Countries
  Luu Tien Dung, UNDP Viet Nam
  
  
• The state-NGO relationship in transitional democracies: The case of CPA-ONG in Benin
  Giske Charlotte Lillehammer, UNDP Benin

Human Rights:

• Linking Human Rights and MDGs
  
  
• A desk study on National Human Rights Action Plans
  
  
• Indicators for Human Rights Based Approaches to Development in UNDP Programming: A Users’ Guide

 

Newsletters:

• September 2007
• June 2007
• April 2007
• April 2006
• April 2005
• February 2004
• October 2003
• May 2003

 

Annual Report:

• Annual Report 2007
• Annual Report 2006
• Annual Report 2005