Recommended Websites- Governance and Capacity Development - General

WORLD BANK (WB): Public Sector Governance site
http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/index.cfm
WB’Links: http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/partners.htm

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP): Democratic Governance site
http://www.undp.org/governance/
UNDP’s Useful Links: http://www.undp.org/governance/links.htm

UNDP Oslo Governance Centre
http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/index.htm

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL
http://www.transparency.org/

CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: Democracy and Rule of Law Project site contains Carnegie's work on democratization, civil society, the rule of law, political liberalization, and other relevant issues.
www.ceip.org/democracy/

CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CIDA): Human Rights, Democratization and Good Governance site
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/hrdg

UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID): Governance & Democracy site
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/democracy_and_governance/

U4: The Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre is dedicated to the global fight against corruption. It is organised around two purposes: to guide you to relevant anti-corruption resources, and to inform you about the Utstein partners and their anti-corruption work.

http://www.u4.no/

EUROSTAT: Thematical project - Good Governace and Human Rights.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/Public/datashop/print-product/EN?catalogue=Eurostat&product=siteweb-EN&file=map_making_study.htm

GERMANY: The following documents set out the German policies on important issues of governance such as:

a. Good Governance
    http://www.bmz.de/en/media/spezial/spezial050/index.html

b. Legal and Judicial Reform in German Development Cooperation
    Positions Paper 
    http://www.bmz.de/en/media/spezial/spezial064/index.html

c. Administrative Reform in German Development Cooperation
    Position Paper 
    http://www.bmz.de/en/media/spezial/spezial048/index.html

d. Combating Corruption in German Development Cooperation
    Position Paper
    http://www.bmz.de/en/media/spezial/spezial051/index.html

e. Decentralisation and Strengthening Local Self-Government in German   
    Development Co-operation
    Position Paper 
    http://www.bmz.de/en/media/spezial/spezial059/index.html

f. Concept for the Promotion of Equal Participation by Women and Men in the Development Process
    http://www.bmz.de/en/media/concepts/participation/index.html


g. Development policy as an element of global structural and peace policy
    Excerpts from the German government's 11th Development PolicyReport,      
    outlining the main orientations of German development policy
    http://www.bmz.de/en/media/spezial/spezial067/index.html

To learn more:

Human Rights http://www.bmz.de/themen/imfokus/menschenrechte/index.html[German Ministry of Economic Co-Operation and Development]

Human Rights in Developing Countries http://www.dse.de/ef/human_rights/index.htm 
[InWEnt - Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gemeinnützige GmbH (Capacity Building International, Germany )]

Political reforms http://www.gtz.de/themen/political-reforms/english/
[Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH (Geman Corporation for Technical Cooperation)]

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