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Democratic Governance

The goal of Democratic Governance Practice is to strengthen the democratic process in Eastern Europe & CIS countries and help public institutions become efficient and accountable, based on the principles of human rights, gender equality, the rule of law, and therefore contribute to an environment where the people and their institutions can interact in a vibrant, participatory and transparent manner.

 
UNDP’s Governance Practice in Europe and the CIS offers the latest approaches to Local Governance and Decentralization(LGD), Public Administration Reform and Anti-corruption (PAR-AC), and Human Rights and Justice (HR&J).
 
UNDP’s capacity in the region to promote good governance is demonstrated through our portfolio of more than 450 initiatives in 28 countries with an annual turnover of more than US$ 127 million.
 
 
We utilize the expertise of 80 UNDP Country Office-designated professionals specialized in Democratic Governance. We also rely on 160 external practitioners from NGOs, academia and think tanks who partner with us.
 
We are also facilitating the following professional networks
 
Made up of both internal and external experts, these networks are supported by interactive online workspaces and fully accessible knowledge base.
 
The specific capacity areas cover:
  • Human Rights and Access to Justice: including support to National Human Rights Institutions (Ombudsmen), the application of the human rights-based approach to programming, support to access to justice initiatives, and cooperation with the UN human rights machinery.
  •  Local Governance and Decentralization: including decentralization, local governance, municipal management, local development (participatory local development planning, budget execution and performance budgeting), public service delivery (including inter-municipal cooperation and public-private partnerships), and European Union accession.
  • Public Administration Reform and Anti-Corruption: including policy formulation reform, strengthening capacity for public accountability and corruption prevention UNDP’s Regional Democratic Governance Practice, based in Slovakia, addresses these deficits by helping 22 country offices in Europe and the CIS improve their programming and policy advisory services in the following areas: in the framework of the UN Convention Against Corruption, civil service reform, expansion and consolidation of regional networks, and the transfer of transition know-how to countries to the east.
In addition to its own capacities, the regional practice can link to UNDP experience and expertise present in 147 countries with a portfolio of $1.5 billion.

 

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Regional Workshop on Programming in Support of Anti-corruption Agencies


Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 30 June - 1 July 2009 - Contries in Eastern Europe and the CIS are facing significant challenges in tackling corruption. After having ratified the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), many of them have established specialized anti-corruption agencies (ACAs), and UNDP is sometimes called upon to help. However, these institutions are not only confronted with the complex issues of corruption, but as part of a country’s public system may suffer from the usual failings of post-communist administrations, such as lack of resources, vague mandates, poor coordination, defficient planning and performance monitoring, politicization, structural inefficiencies, lack of well-trained and qualified staff. With its significant track record both in supporting anti-corruption policies, as well as institutional development, UNDP is uniquely placed to support ACAs with regard to both technical and functional capacities that they need.

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