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The Broadband Opportunity: The Time Is Now 18 Jun 2013

Lessons Learned Review of UN Support to Core Public Administration Functions in the Immediate Aftermath of Conflict 22 May 2013

Rule of Law and Access to Justice in Eastern and Southern Africa 20 May 2013

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Mainstreaming Human Rights in Development Policies and Programming: UNDP Experiences

UNDP's work is based on the belief that people experience poverty not only as a lack of income but also as a lack of education or health care or as a lack of dignity and participation in a community. These dimensions of people's lives are considered so important that governments all around the more

Making the Law Work for Everyone

VOLUME I As the Report highlights, the sources of legal exclusion are numerous and very often country-specific. However, four common threads stand out. First, legal empowerment is impossible when poor people are denied access to a well-functioning justice system. Second, most of the world’s more

Mali: Improving Governance and Anti-Corruption

This report presents the findings of the review of the project "Improving governance and fighting corruption in Mali", implemented between 2008 and 2010 with DGTTF funding. The Project has supported the implementation of the NEPAD African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and the more

Mapping of Corruption and Governance Measurement Tools in Sub-Saharan Africa

This mapping provides guidance to uses and limitations of 42 different international, national and local tools for measuring corruption in 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. more

Marginalised Minorities in Development Programming: A Resource Guide and Toolkit

Developed in partnership with the UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues and the OHCHR, this UNDP Resource Guide and Toolkit clarifies the conceptual issues and fundamental principles on the promotion and protection of minorities; the standards to engage them and increase their opportunities for more

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The response to the recent global economic crisis by many countries around the world, particularly developed nations, has demonstrated that the State has an important role to play in addressing critical challenges. This is also an important lesson for developing countries as public institutions must have the capacity to address these difficulties while at the same time delivering the benefits of human development.

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