Indicators for Programming in Human Rights and Democratic Development: A Preliminary Study

This paper is the result of a preliminary study on using indicators to track progress in human rights and democratic development efforts.  The paper briefly outlines the experience of development organizations in measuring results in political development.  It then examines some of the methodological issues relating to performance indicators, generally, and human rights and democratic development programming indicators, in particular. Finally, after suggesting an approach that integrates qualitative, quantitative and participatory methods of evaluating political development, the paper examines results-based indicators at both the (corporate) policy and the project/programme levels.  Indicators discussed in the paper include: increase in percentage of registered voters, increased public access to polling stations, regularity of elections, increased coalition building, increased legislative independence, more timely legislative work, and increased citizen participation in civil society.

 

Bibliographic Details
Author	Kapoor, Ilan
Publisher	Canadian International Development Agency
Publication Date	July 1, 1996
Publication City
Publication Work
Resource Type	Research & Reports
Resource Focus	Program Evaluation Evaluation/Outcomes Measurement Advocacy/Public Policy Capacity Building Advocacy Evaluation Planning Data Collection
Audience	Evaluators Funders
Region	International or N/A
Keywords	indicators human rights democratic development
Submitted to Point K	January 18, 2008 - 10:45am