Policy Practice Brief 6 – What Makes A Good Governance Indicator?

Monday, January 24th, 2011

January 2011, Gareth Williams http://www.thepolicypractice.com/papersdetails.asp?code=17 The rise to prominence of good governance as a key development concern has been marked by an increasing interest in measurement and the production of a huge range of governance indicators. When used carefully such indicators provide a valuable source of information on governance conditions and trends. ...

Monitoring and Evaluating Civil Service Performance

Monday, December 6th, 2010

[from the Research Helpdesk of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre ] Request: Summarise recent research findings and intellectual debate on how to best monitor and evaluate civil service performance, including international best practice and issues around standardised indicators (along the lines of the PEFA framework). Key ...

Conference: Making the Invisible Visible: An Emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Date: December 16-18, 2010 Venue: University of Brighton, UK The University of Brighton will be hosting a groundbreaking, EU funded, international conference on the theme of Making the Invisible Visible: An Emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values, bringing together the leading thinkers, practitioners and organizations in these fields.  The ...

Critique of Governance Assessment Applications

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

GRDC Helpdesk Research Report by Sumedh Rao, Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, July 2010. 16 pages. Available as pdf Query:  Identify the key literature that critiques the use and application of governance assessments.  Enquirer: DFID Contents 1. Overview 2. General critiques 3. Critiques of measurement 4. Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) 5. African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) 6. ...

What should be found within an M&E framework / plan?

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

I was asked this question by a client some time ago. After some thinking about something that I felt I should have already known, I drafted up a one page guidance note for my client. The contents of the note also benefited from a discussion about appropriate expectations about M&E ...

Training: Monitoring and Evaluation for Results

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Date: July 6-17, 2009 Venue: The World Bank Headquarters 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433 SPONSORS World Bank Institute Evaluation Group (WBIEG) TOPICS Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation Logic Models and Evaluation Questions Indicators and Measurement Research Designs Data Collection Reconstructing Baseline Data Sampling Data Analysis The Practice of Impact Evaluation Reporting Results and Utilization of Evaluations Managing Monitoring and Evaluation Functions

Training: Monitoring and Evaluation for Results

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Date: May 11-15, 2009 Venue: Hotel Africa in Tunis, Tunisia SPONSORS World Bank Institute Evaluation Group (WBIEG) and Joint Africa Institute (JAI) TOPICS Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation Logic Models and Evaluation Questions Indicators and Measurement Research Designs Data Collection Reconstructing Baseline Data Sampling Data Analysis The Practice of Impact Evaluation Reporting Results and Utilization of Evaluations Managing Monitoring and Evaluation Functions