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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.
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.
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.
International IDEA
Supporting Democracy Worldwide. The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is an intergovernmental organisation. Its programmes aim to support sustainable democratic change through providing comparative knowledge, assisting in democratic reform and influencing politics and policies.
Latinobarómetro 2009
The report analyses attitudes towards the coup d'état in Honduras; consequences of the crisis from the region citizens' perspective; impact of the crisis in democracy, private sector and the market....
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.
Measuring New Zealand's Progress Using a Sustainable Development Approach: 2008
It is an overarching view of New Zealand’s environmental, economic, and social progress and whether that progress was consistent with sustainable development. Read more about Background Information (pdf) and Media Release (pdf).
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.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s system of Community Accounts
It has been recognized and endorsed by Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, who believes in the importance of accounts like key asset in the development and implementation of a pan-Canadian population health policy.
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 INTOSAI Working Group on Key National Indicators
The working group intend to promote a role of SAIs in assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of national resources and to promote an increase of INTOSAI credibility in the international arena, in the design and control of Key National Indicators in every possible way.
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.
Initiatves Past Events
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