For UNDP, the right to information is a key underpinning for work in democratic governance and is vital for promoting ‘open governance’ and the accountability of public decision makers as well as for strengthening transparency, participation and the rule of law. The right to information is not only fundamental for an open and democratic society but is a key weapon in the fight against poverty and in accelerating human development.
The UNDP Oslo Governance Centre convened a seminar on the more...
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The governance pathway, developed by the Institute for Solidarity in Asia, offers Philippine cities a vision and roadmap to achieve governance reforms and make democracy work. Thirty cities and two provinces have participated in a rigorous certification process that has improved city services, attracted investment, helped balance budgets, and raised citizens’ quality of life. Community groups participate in city planning and hold civic officials accountable for their promises, thereby deepenin more...
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Europe Media Monitor (EMM) is a joint project of European Union Directorate General-Joint Research Center and Directorate General Communication and is a free multi-language news aggregation platform.
The project includes real-time news analysis for medical and health-related topics (MedSys), with early warning alerts per category and country.
EMM gathers reports from news portals world-wide in 43 languages, classifies the articles, analyses the news texts by extracting information, aggregates more...
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'The Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit is a standardized and cross-referenced set of tools designed to enable United Nations agencies, government officials engaged in criminal justice reform, as well as other organizations and individuals to conduct comprehensive assessments of criminal justice systems; to identify areas of technical assistance; to assist agencies in the design of interventions that integrate United Nations standards and norms on crime prevention and criminal justice; and to a more...
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This toolkit introduces key corporate governance concepts and their connection to market-oriented democracy, provides a framework for applying governance principles to emerging markets situations, and outlines the four-step strategy developed by the Center for International Private Enterprise for corporate governance reform.
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The former chief of the United Nations Development Program housing section was arrested by FBI agents and charged with bid rigging Thursday for his role in overseeing UNDP-sponsored housing construction in Africa.
Krishna Gowandan, 57, was charged by the U.S. attorney for Manhattan with defrauding the U.N. out of more than $1.5 million between 1989 and late 1995 in a scheme to inflate costs and misappropriate United Nations funds.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Becker told Reuters the U.S. more...
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This paper by Peter Graeff,
Dresden University of Technology, analyses some micro-sociological preconditions for the occurrence of corruption norms which can be treated as Social Capital with mainly negative externalities. Corruption norms provide general knowledge how to commence a corrupt deal without knowing the cor-rupt partner. Corruption norms necessarily compete with existing legal, universalistic norms because corruption norms refer to particularistic aims. This fact can be exploited t more...
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