Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid)
This site provides information on
AusAid’s governance programs,
publications, and
research.
Belgium Technical Cooperation (BTC) This site provides
information on BTC’s approach to
decentralization and local governance.
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) This site
provides access to CIDA’s programs
and
publications on governance.
CIDA’s Office for Democratic
Governance focuses on issues of freedom and democracy, human
rights, rule of law, and open and accountable public
institutions in developing countries.
Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) DANIDA’s
DevForum provides information
and news on development priorities and themes in Danish
development assistance, including good
governance,
anticorruption, and
public sector management. The site includes links to key
references on governance, DANIDA’s
governance programmes, and
publications/research briefs from its
good governance seminars.
Department for International Development, UK (DFID)’s
Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC)
provides the latest information about governance in development.
DFID has initiated a
Drivers of Change (DoC)
approach
to identify the political institutions, structures and agents
that can act as key levers to enable pro-poor change and
therefore improve the effectiveness of aid.
Governance and Social Development Resource Centre Funded by
the UK Department for International Development, the Governance
and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) aims to help
reduce poverty by informing policymaking and enhancing
professional knowledge in relation to governance, conflict and
social development.
Gerrman Development Service (DED)
Promotes democracy, civil society, rule of law, and local
development through its capacity building activities for local
authorities and civil society organisations
and its civil conflict management projects.
Gesellschaft
fur Technische
Zusammenarbeit This site outlines
GTZ’s
service areas and provides access to publications on governance,
decentralization, corruption, and other public sector reform
issues.
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
This site provides information on IADB’s
projects and publications and features a global
governance indicators database
which can generate regional and country-level comparative data
on a number of governance measures.
Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD)
This site provides access to NORAD’s
library of governance publications
and information on its
anticorruption
work.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development’s (OECD) Development Aid Effectiveness Committee
(DAC) DAC is focused on promoting a global
partnership for development and accelerate progress towards the
Millennium Development Goals. DAC’s
Network on Governance or GOVNET aims to improve the
effectiveness of development assistance in governance and in
support of capacity development. It provides a policy forum for
members to discuss lessons learned and disseminate good
practices.
Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency (SIDA) This site provides
information on SIDA’s democratic
governance programs and publications.
Stichting Nederlandse Vriwilligers(SNV) Netherlands Development Organization
This site
highlights focus on
strengthening local government and includes case studies,
publications, and information on its regional programs.
USAID Office for Democracy and Governance
USAID’s governance office is tasked
with supporting and advancing USAID's
democracy and governance (DG) programming worldwide, helping
USAID field missions design and implement democracy strategies,
providing technical and intellectual leadership in the field of
democracy development, and managing some USAID programs
directly. USAID's
Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC), is
searchable by subject and country and contains several
governance resources.
UNDP's
Democratic Governance Program
This program was
established in 1995 to respond to increasing demands on UNDP for
technical assistance in governance and management development.
The program’s global policy network is supported by its Oslo Governance Centre
established in Norway in 2002. The site also includes
information on work in
regional and at the country level in Asia and the Pacific.
United Nations Capital Development
Fund (UNCDF)
UNCDF offers investment capital,
capacity building and technical advisory services to promote
microfinance and local development in the Least Developed
Countries (LDCs). The site provides
resources and publications in key areas including local governance.
United Nations Financing for
Development Office
The site serves as the central
clearinghouse for key documents and the follow up process for
the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development,
which culminated in the adoption of the Monterrey Consensus.
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Pacific
Plan.
The Pacific Plan proposes a
new and innovative approach to the unique challenges that
Pacific Island Countries face through a framework of greater
regional cooperation and integration.
Partnership for Democratic
Governance
PDG is a new multilateral initiative
designed to assist developing countries, wherever capacity is
limited, to improve governance, strengthen capacity and
accountability and effectively deliver essential services such
as efficient customs, judicial and tax services.
World Bank’s Governance and
Anticorruption Portal World Bank facilitates action-oriented and
participatory programs to promote good governance and curb
corruption in its client countries. These dedicated sites
include articles, publications, learning products, data, and
other resources related to governance and corruption. Key
resources include the Governance
Matters Indicators, BRIBEline, and the
Country Policy and Institutional
Assessment (CPIA) Index.
World Bank Demand for
Good Governance
Demand for Good Governance (DFGG),
or "demand-side" activities are made up of development
approaches that focus on citizens as the ultimate stakeholders
for better governance. With this focus, they strengthen the
capacity of civil society, the media, parliament, local
communities, and the private sector to hold authorities
accountable for better development results. As such, DFGG
complements and strengthens the World Bank Group's traditional
"supply-side" work that supports client states to provide
government services.
Books
Countries at the crossroads : a survey of democratic
governance
Tatic, Sanja.
REF JC423 .C7196 2006
Reforming international environmental governance :
from institutional limits to innovative solutions
Chambers, W. Bradnee.
GE170 .R436 2005
Making states work : state failure and the crisis of
governance
Chesterman, Simon.
JC330.2 .M355 2005
CCM
Corporate governance in Thailand
Montreevat, Sakulrat.
HD2741 .C826 2006
Russian governance in the twenty-first century :
geo-strategy, geopolitics and governance
Isakova, Irina Viktorovna.
JC319 .I8 2005
State-building : governance and world order in the
21st century
Fukuyama, Francis.
JA66 .F85 2004
Asia
and Europe : global governance as a challenge to co-operation
Wallace, William
JZ1318 .A853 2004
International organizations : the politics and
processes of global governance
Karns, Margaret P.
JZ4850 .K37 2004
Growth & governance in Asia
Sato, Yoichiro.
JQ1499 .G7 2004
Global governance : an architecture for the world
economy. Kiel Week Conference (2002)
HF1418.5 .K54 2002
APEC
as an institution : multilateral governance in the Asia-Pacific.
Annual APEC Study Center International Consortium Meeting (2002 :
Mérida, Mexico)
HC412
.A615 2002
Governance in Indonesia : challenges facing the
Megawati presidency
Soesastro, Hadi.
DS644.5 .G58 2003
Coping with globalization : cross-national patterns
in domestic governance and policy performance
Chan, Steve.
JZ1318 .C685 2002
Asia Pacific governance : from crisis to reform
Sampford, C. J. G. (Charles J G)
JQ1499 .A58 A85
2002
Enhancing global governance : towards a new diplomacy?
Cooper, Andrew Fenton
JZ4850 .E54 2002
The politics of global governance : international
organizations in an interdependent world
2nd ed.
Diehl, Paul F. (Paul Francis)
JZ5566 .P65 2001
Global governance and the United Nations system
Rittberger, Volker
JZ5566.4 .G58 2001
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