Welcome to the Oslo Governance Centre!
The Oslo Governance Centre [OGC] was established in 2002 as part of UNDP's global policy network for democratic governance. The overarching purpose of the work of the OGC is to position UNDP as a champion of democratic governance, both as an end in itself, and as a means to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This is done through knowledge networking and multi-disciplinary team work, to provide policy guidance and technical support to the more than 130 UNDP Country Offices around the world. It also involves close partnerships with leading policy and research institutions in different parts of the world. Read more
What's new
India Country Assessment: The Asia-Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative
This report presents the findings of an assessment of two projects supported by DGTTF, ‘Access to Justice by Poor and Disadvantaged People’, and ‘Legal Empowerment Through Community Radio’ conducted in April and May 2009. The assessed results based on the criteria of effectiveness, sustainability, relevance and strategic positioning, efficiency, political economy, and codification of lessons learned and tools
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Regional Assessment: The Asia-Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative
This report presents the assessment findings of the Asia-Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative (AP-A2J) conducted over April and May 2009. The assessment is part of a UNDP effort to respond to one of the recommendations of the global DGTTF 2008 Evaluation that highlighted the need for UNDP HQ, regional and country offices, and donors to learn more from successful and unsuccessful projects.
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Cambodia Country Assessment: The Asia-Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative
This report presents the findings of an assessment of the project ‘Access to Justice in Cambodia’ conducted in April and May 2009. The assessed results based on the criteria of effectiveness, sustainability, relevance and strategic positioning, efficiency, political economy, and codification of lessons learned and tools.
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Indonesia Country Assessment: The Asia-Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative
This report presents the assessment findings of the DGTTF supported Indonesia project Strengthening Access to Justice and the Rule of Law
(A2J Assessment Project).
The assessment yielded three significant results; a) the publication of ‘Justice for All?:
An Assessment of Access to Justice in Five Provinces of Indonesia’, b) the development of a new initiative between UNDP Indonesia and
BAPPENAS for Legal Empowerment and Assistance for the Disadvantaged (LEAD), and c) the development and imminent launch at the policy level
of a national access to justice strategy that will be incorporated into the government of Indonesia’s 2010-2014 Mid-Term Development Plan
and the action plans of relevant ministries and their sub-national counterparts.
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Mongolia Project Assessment: Integrity in the Health Sector.
The DGTTF-funded pilot project ‘Strengthening Ethics and Integrity for Good Governance in the Health Sector of Mongolia’ was undertaken in the context of broader anticorruption efforts and civil service reform.
The project was also a response to an initiative of the Ministry of Health (MoH). It was proven to be strategically well-positioned, and highly relevant, innovative and catalytic, resulting in its replication at the State
Specialized Inspection Agency (SSIA) in 2008 and the Independent Anti-Corruption Authority in 2009.
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Sri Lanka Country Assessment: The Asia-Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative.
This assessment was conducted to identify and document the results and impact of the first phase of the Sri Lanka Equal Access to Justice
Project (EA2J) which took place from 2004 to December 2007 and addressed legal empowerment and A2J for the disadvantaged using a human rights-based approach.
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27 November 2009
Democratic Governance Reader
A Reference for UNDP Practitioners is intended as a single volume reference tool on UNDP's approach to democratic governance. It is a joint publication of the Oslo Governance Centre, Democratic Governance Group (Bureau for Development Policy) and the Learning Resources Centre (Bureau of Management).
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1 November 2009
Governance in Conflict Prevention and Recovery:
A Guidance Note
This Guidance Note is intended to support Country Office efforts to engage in governance programming in conflict affected contexts. The note is a joint publication of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) and the Democratic Governance Group of the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) through its Oslo Governance Centre.
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1 October 2009
Introductory Primer on the Role of Legal Reform in Supporting Civil Society
This Introductory Primer on the Role of Legal Reform in Supporting Civil Society was commissioned by UNDP from the International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law to respond to the increasing demand on UNDP to engage with or advise governments to develop civil society legal frameworks. The primer will guide UNDP in facilitating state-citizen relations through a better understanding of the normative and practical aspects of the often sensitive issue of legal and regulatory framework allowing and governing the establishment of civil society organizations, and their space and scope to function in public life.
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25 September 2009:
Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility
The Users’ Guide on Measuring Fragility, jointly produced by UNDP Oslo Governance Centre and the German Development Institute, provides a comparative analysis of cross-country fragility indices - their conceptual premises, methodologies and possible use.
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7 August 2009:
Elections and Conflict Prevention. A Guide to Analysis, Planning and Programming.
The Guide provides UNDP practitioners in the field of governance and electoral assistance with practical options and tools for programming design, early warning and conflict tracking. It sets out valuable lessons learned from the previous, extensive experience of UNDP and its partner organizations in the field.
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Now Online - UN Practitioners Portal on HRBA!
www.hrbaportal.org
The Practitioners Portal brings together a wide range of resources on integrating human rights-based approaches (HRBA) into development programming, making them accessible to users through a single entry point (www.hrbaportal.org).
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During the last decade, the UN and other actors including donors and civil society have accumulated a wide range of knowledge and experience in mainstreaming HRBA into development. The Practitioners' Portal pools together this knowledge and practical experience into a single environment, providing users with a convenient ‘one-stop shop’ on HRBA. The aim of the portal is to support and encourage practitioners working to apply a HRBA in their work by providing them with easily accessible experience and resources in this area.
What the Portal Offers:
HRBA in the UN System: Information on the UN Common Understanding on HRBA, the Common Learning Package on HRBA and 2009 Guidelines for programming HRBA into the CCA/UNDAF;
Resource Database: Browse or search for resources according to topic, region, resource type or programming tool. Access how-to guides, manuals, case-studies & learning materials. The thematic pages also provide access to relevant human rights instruments, mechanisms and organizations within a given topic area.
Huritalk Corner: examples of practical experience and lessons-learned shared by members on the UN Human Rights Policy Network. The consolidated replies and E-Discussions in this area are accessible only by registering your UN email address.
Noticeboard: Information on upcoming events, trainings, job vacancies and announcements.
Interactive Features: Users can comment on and rate resources, send documents to colleagues via email and bookmark or share resources, including through facebook, twitter, Digg.
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Mapping of Democratic Governance Projects that Support the MDGs:
A mapping of democratic governance projects in support of the MDGs was undertaken in May 2009. The project mapping illustrates and presents a wide range of democratic governance projects that support MDG achievement. The mapping provides a brief description of 78 projects with hyperlinks, where possible, to additional project information. The mapping is meant to be illustrative rather than exhaustive. It is based on desk research and focused on UNDP’s principal democratic governance databases. The mapping took place in phases and can be seen through three grouping methods. One follows the pillars of democratic governance in UNDP’s strategic plan. Another follows the MDG clusters. A third method groups democratic governance interventions in support of the MDGs in conflict contexts. In the final section, some lessons are distilled from example projects which have been evaluated. Read more...
10-12 June 2009 :
The Leadership and Innovations in the Democratic Governance (LEADING) Seminar-Bangkok, Thailand
The seminar was jointly organized by Regional Centre in Bangkok, Oslo Governance Centre and Learning Resources Centre. During the two and a half days participants benefitted from recent academic research and exchanged practical experiences on democracy and state building. One day of the seminar was dedicated as peer-to-peer clinic, which allowed participants to share lessons learned on democratic governance issues. Participants included five resource persons and seventeen UNDP senior management staff (Resident Coordinators, Country Directors, and Deputy Resident Representatives) from Asia Pacific region.
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28 May 2009:
GOVERNANCE ASSESSMENT PORTAL NOW ONLINE!
www.gaportal.org
The Portal is the first global hub and one-stop shop in the area of democratic governance assessments. It will provide UNDP staff, national counterparts and the wider community of stakeholders easy access to a variety of sources of information for planning and implementing country-led governance assessments. It also provides important guidance on UNDP’s niche, principles and approach in assisting developing countries to produce disaggregated and non-ranking governance indicators. The Portal will ultimately be an important resource for national stakeholders to better monitor performance in democratic governance reforms.
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23 March 2009:
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.
English , French , Spanish
‘I have read
with pleasure the Guide. It is amazing, I thought I might be a little bored or
something but the minute I started I couldn't let it go. The way it is divided
and the information provided are neat, attractive and comprehensive. I have loved the case study so much and
really it can be used for so many training courses on negotiation,
communication, Gender. It is written in a very interesting way that for a moment
I felt that I am reading a best seller.’
Aida Abu-Ras, Regional Gender Advisor, UN-ESCWA
05 May 2009:
The sixth issue of HuriTalk Insight Series is now online
The Global Economic Crisis through a Human Rights Lens.
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19 February 2009:
The fifth issue of HuriTalk Insight Series is now online
The Contribution of Human Rights to Overcoming the Global Water and Sanitation Crisis
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01 December 2008:
24-25 November 2008 - Oslo, Norway - Workshop on: Land Governance and Emerging Development Agendas: Legal Empowerment, Climate Change and Food Security.
The Workshop brought together academic and policy experts, UNDP practitioners from selected country offices, and BDP policy advisors to deepen understandings of how emerging development agendas relate to land governance and how country level engagements could be strengthened to provide a meaningful response.
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18 November 2008:
Regional Training: Developing Capacities for Accountability and Voice
The Oslo Governance Centre and the Bratislava Regional Centre organized a joint training event on accountability and voice mechanisms for public service delivery at the local level. The training was attended by UNDP country offices in the Europe and CIS region and focused on the practical application of voice and accountability mechanisms such such as citizen report cards, public expenditure tracking, performance based budgets, and public hearings.
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6 October 2008:
The third issue of HuriTalk Insight Series is now online
October 2008- The Universal Periodic Revew of the Human Rights Council: What is it and How can UNCTs engage?
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29 August 2008:
A Users’ Guide to Measuring Corruption
A Users' Guide to Measuring Corruption, jointly produced by UNDP and Global Integrity, is one of the first attempts to explore how best to use existing tools to measure what is increasingly viewed as one of the major impediments to development: corruption.
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28 August 2008:
The second issue of HuriTalk Insight Series is now online
Issue 2 - August 08 - The Challenge of Rising Food Prices and Food Insecurity: What do Human Rights have to do with it?
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16 June 2008:
The first issue of HuriTalk Insight Series is now online
Issue 1 - June 08 - The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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28 May 2008:
The 2008 Fellows have now been selected
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13-15 May 2008:
Chinese delegation visits Oslo
A delegation from the China Center for Comparative Politics and Economics (CCCPE) visited the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre in support of the development of a governance assessment framework in china. The study tour was organized as part of a project funded by the UNDP Democratic Governance Thematic Trust Fund. Read more
Web-based guide on How to Engage with the International Human Rights
Machinery.
The Guide - written primarily for the non-human rights expert- provides guidance
on how to strengthen engagement with the international human rights machinery,
specifically with UN Treaty Bodies and UN Special Procedures. It is based on the
views and experience of development practitioners and includes case studies from
their work around the world.
OGC supports community assessments in Africa
In late 2007, assessments of the information and communication needs
of communities in Madagascar and Mozambique have been undertaken with
the support of OGC, through its Communication for Empowerment pilot project.
The Oslo Governance Centre Training Referral Service is now available online.
The Service includes a database containing detailed information on institutions and training providers from across the world that offer training services for governance and development practitioners. To access the database, click here.
The workshop on Local Government in Post-Conflict Situations: Challenges for Improving Local Decision Making and Service Delivery Capacities was held in Oslo, Norway on 28-29 November 2007. For more information click here
The 10th JPO Workshop on Governance and Conflict Prevention and Recovery was held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 19-23 November 2007. The workshop was organised by the JPO Service Centre in cooperation with the Oslo Governance Centre. Find more here
Two New Tools on Human Rights and the MDGs: The Primer- Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals- Making the Link and the WebPortal- HuRiLink. These tools have been designed to support development practitioners effectively link human rights and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Find out more.
The 2007 Bergen Seminar, Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration: Opportunities for Inclusive Participation and National Ownership, was held in Bergen, Norway on 23-25 September. The Seminar was organised in partnership with the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI). For more information, click here
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