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 Key Reading Documents

  • https://www.shareweb.ch/site/DDLGN/Documents/SDC-LGA-Guideline-Toolkit.jpg

    SDC Guidelines and Toolkit for Local Governance Assessments

    Results of the Learning Project.

    Key Reading Document
    SDC
    2012
    Paul J. M. van Hoof,Christoph Fuchs, Hanspeter Reiser, Kuno Schläfli, Corinne Huser
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    LGA, a capitalization of SDC experience

    Intercooperation (IC) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) have been mandated by SDC to carry out a capitalization of SDC experience in conducting Local Governance Assessments (LGA) in the frame of SDC!s “Decentralization and Local Governance Network” (dlgn).

    Key Reading Document
    SDC, Intercooperation, IDS
    2011
    Pascal Arnold, Pascal Fendrich, Sarah Byrne, Andres Mejia Acosta
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    Local Governance Barometer South Africa

    Questionnaire adressed to the major stakeholders of a Municipality in order to assess the present state of governance in it. This will help defining the priority areas for improvement as well as the stakeholders role in this process.

    Key Reading Document
    SDC
    2016
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    Example local governance self-assessment Bangladesh

    The Local Governance Self-Assessment tool, as developed by Intercooperation's Local Governance Programme, has to be seen as one among many tools that can contribute to build empowered citizens' participation and accountability into local governance. Part one of the guidelines explains the process of conducting a Local Governance Self-Assessment exercise with citizens and part two explains how to utilize the tool with the Union Parishad.

    Key Reading Document
    Intercooperation, SDC
    Matthias Boss,Nirjharinee Hasan,Prashanta K. Tripura,Tirtha Sarathi Sikder
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    Example Local Governance Barometer

    Local Governance Barometer South Africa Model.

    Key Reading Document
    SDC
    2016
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  • https://www.shareweb.ch/site/DDLGN/Documents/08-Example-Urban-Governance-Index_Report-Aug04-FINAL.jpg

    Example Urban Governance Index

    This report synthesizes the important findings and recommendations from various campaign events on developing the Urban Governance Index, field test results, the suggestions and feedback from participating and partner cities and the experience of the Global Campaign on Urban Governance and the Global Urban Observatory. It also draws upon the earlier work done by UN-HABITAT to prepare the draft Sourcebook.

    Key Reading Document
    UN-Habitat, Global Campaign on Urban Governance,Global Urban Observatory
    2004
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    Local Governance Assessment, capex

    The main objective of the mandate is to capitalize SDC experience in conducting Local Governance Assessments. The main expected result is to generate learnings from the different SDC experiences – with a focus on the purpose of the LGA tools – in order to offer guidance to SDC and its partners on conducting LGAs in the future.The paper features five case studies representative of different regions. Each case relates to a particular LGA tool, developed by different organisations and institutions.

    Key Reading Document
    IDS, SDC, Intercooperation
    2011
    Pascal Arnold, Pascal Fendrich, Sarah Byrne, Andres Mejia Acosta
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  • https://www.shareweb.ch/site/DDLGN/Documents/12-OECD-DAC-principles-on-gov.assessm.jpg

    OECD-DAC-principles on government assessments

    Donor Approaches to Governance Assessments: guiding PrInciples for enhanced Impact, Usage and Harmonisation.

    Key Reading Document
    OECD
    2009
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  • https://www.shareweb.ch/site/DDLGN/Documents/16-UNDP-LGA_User-Guide-measuring-LG-2July.jpg

    UNDP- a Users’ Guide to measuring Local Governance

    The purpose of this User's Guide is to compile existing knowledge on decentralization and local governance measurement and provide a platform for understanding and navigating the array of assessment tools that exist.

    Key Reading Document
    UNDP
    2008
    Alexandra Wilde, Shipra Narang, Marie Laberge, Luisa Moretto
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