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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

Oslo Governance Centre 2012 - A Year in Review 30 Apr 2013

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A Guide to UNDP Democratic Governance Practice

This Guide provides an easy-to-read overview of what UNDP does in the democratic governance practice area. It provides an overview of policies and strategies that guide UNDP's work on democratic governance; examples of our work on the ground and resources are also shared. more

A Handbook on Working With Political Parties

Political parties are a keystone of democratic governance. They provide a structure for political participation; serve as a training ground for political leadership; and transform social interests into public policy. The question for development practitioners is how best to work with political more

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Development Programming in UNDP

A Manual on Parliamentary Engagement with the Millennium Development Goals

The UN Millennium Campaign and the UNDP Parliamentary Development team have launched a manual on “parliamentary engagement with the Millennium Development Goals”. It outlines mechanisms that can be used in parliaments to improve MDGs engagement; good practices in how parliaments have made the MDGs more

A User’s Guide to Measuring Gender-Sensitive Basic Service Delivery

The Guide is produced as part of a UNIFEM, UNDP, and Gender at Work initiative called Gender and Democratic Governance in Development, which aims to improve the governance of basic services provision to women. more

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Democratic Governance

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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The Sustainable Future We Want

UNDP has decades of concrete development experience in countries ranging from fragile States to middle-income countries like Brazil and Indonesia. This, combined with our four focus areas, make us uniquely situated and qualified to answer the UN’s call for a better and more sustainable future.

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Human Development Data

Human Development Index (HDI) figures are available as part of the Google Public Data Explorer tool.

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Teamworks is UNDP's knowledge sharing exchange that allows development professionals to gain and share knowledge

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