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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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Primers in Gender and Democratic Governance #4

This primer highlights some of the key gender-related issues regarding e-governance in the context of UNDP’s Democratic Governance work. It presents entry points for continued programming on gender and e-governance and makes recommendations for closing the existing gender gap in specific more

Pro Poor Urban Governance

LIFE is a UNDP global programme that has focused on local governance and urban environmental issues since 1992, supporting community-based and local initiatives to realize immediate improvements to the lives of the urban poor and to influence policy. This report applies LIFE's 13 years of more

Pro-Poor Governance and the Policy Process: A Framework

This framework serves as a tool for assessing the extent to which policy making processes are pro-poor and to help in diagnosing the necessary corrective actions for enhancing poverty sensitivity of policy processes. The framework is applied to experiences of participatory budgeting in Latin more

Protecting the Public Purse: Anti-Corruption for MDGs

The discourse on MDGs achievements has focused on up-scaling financial resources to developing countries (e.g. increase in ODA; etc.) This brochure examines the data on resource leakages and concludes that some countries may not achieve the MDGs, without concerted action to address bottlenecks such more

Public Administration Reform Practice Note

In the area of Public Administration Reform, UNDP's mandate to reduce poverty and foster respect for human rights implies programmes that will have the long-term impact on the disadvantaged. This note identifies open government and decentralization as the twin pillars of UNDP's pro-poor and human more

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