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Global Project on "Measuring the Progress of Societies" seeks to support initiatives who wish to measure, assess and promote the progress of societies.
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What's New
BellagioSTAMP - SusTainability Assessment and Measurement Principles
A new set of guiding principles used to measure and assess progress towards sustainability. They were written by a group of international experts meeting in Bellagio, Italy, organized by IISD and the OECD's Measuring the Progress of Societies initiative.
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The Foro Consultivo Cientifico y Tecnológico has published "Measuring the progress of societies. Reflections from Mexico", a book concerning the theme of progress, which set of new indicators ought to be used in order to measure the progress of societies and also aims to promote a general and desirable reflection in Mexico.
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The Community Indicators Declaration from the Community Indicators Summit in Brisbane, Australia July 2009, has now been finalised. The Declaration, endorsed collectively by delegates at the Summit, is available on www.nss.gov.au
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Measuring progress initiatives are being run in many countries, developed and developing.
Initiatives are being run by governments, by civil society, by academics and the private sector. Some of the most successful have been run in novel partnerships that span the different sectors. They are being run at the country and international levels. Some are being done for local communities. But for the most part, those working in this field are working in isolation. They have few opportunities to discuss with their peers their common experiences or develop best practice.
The knowledge and spread of several International Initiatives is important to to foster the development of sets of key economic, social and environmental indicators to provide a comprehensive picture of how the well-being of a society is evolving.
The Project is open to all sectors of society, building both on good practice and innovative research work.
Initiatives Future Events
Measuring Progress Initiatives around the World
Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY)
It is a national non-profit organisation working to create better futures for Australia’s children and young people. ARACY is keenly interested in the development of wellbeing indicators for children and young people that can be used as the basis of effective international comparisons of progress.
Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW)
The Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) is the signature product of the Institute of Wellbeing. The CIW will provide information related to the quality of life of Canadians – overall, and in specific areas that matter: our standard of living, our health, the quality of our environment, our education and skill levels, the way we use our time, the vitality of our communities, our participation in the democratic process, and the state of our arts, culture and recreation.
Community Indicators Victoria Australia
The aim of Community Indicators Victoria is to build healthy, just and sustainable communities. It has been developed to present and report on the wellbeing of Victorians using an integrated set of community wellbeing indicators. These indicators refer to a broad range of measures designed to identify and communicate economic, social, environmental, democratic and cultural trends and outcomes.
Global Peace Index 2009
The Global Peace Index is a ground-breaking milestone in the study of peace. It is the first time that an Index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identifies some of the drivers of that peace. It is available now on website: www.visionofhumanity.org.
India Development Indicators
It shows selected education, demographic, and economic indicators for India. It currently has national, state, and district level data available.
Measuring Ireland's Progress
The report Measuring Ireland's Progress, published by the CSO shows the progress made in Ireland in important economic, social and environmental areas. As well as showing developments over time, the report benchmarks the situation in Ireland against the other EU Member States.
National account of well-being
The development of comprehensive measures of well-being and societal progress is fundamental to improve policy making and the functioning of our societies. The integration of classical national accounts with measures of other dimensions of individual and societal well-being is a very promising way to go. This report represents an important step in this direction.
Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)
The OECD Development Centre will present a new index to track the causes of gender discrimination in 102 developing countries. While other ratings tend to focus on the outcomes of inequality such as personal income, the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) draws on 12 innovative variables to take into account the ways in which women in many developing countries are deprived of social and economic development.
The 2008 Legatum Prosperity Index
It is an inquiry into the nature of prosperity and how it is created. The Index rates more than 100 nations worldwide according to how well they cultivate empirically-tested drivers of economic and social well-being. Read more about Methodology, Data and Findings in the 2008 Legatum Prosperity Index Report.
The Happy Planet Index 2.0
It is the first ever index to combine environmental impact with human well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which country by country, people live long and happy lives.
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