The challenge of thinking and working politically to reform public services

In this post LSE Research Fellow Dr Pritish Behuria reviews the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) Global Centre for Public Service Excellence 3-day Conference, that was held in Singapore last month (April 2016

Food Security in the South Pacific Island Countries with Special Reference to the Fiji Islands

This paper analyses the status of food security in selected South Pacific Island countries

Tantangan Tata Kelola Pemerintahan di 33 Provinsi: Kompilasi Laporan 33 Provinsi Indonesia Governance Index 2012

Sesuai dengan visi misi Partnership untuk mewujudkan Indonesia yang adil, demokratis dan sejahtera di atas prinsip dan praktik tata kelola pemerintahan yang baik, Partnership meluncurkan kembali upaya mengukur kemajuan daerah di bidang tata kelola pemerintahan melalui apa yang kami sebut sebagai Indonesia Governance Index (IGI). Hasil dari IGI akan memberikan gambaran terkini mengenai proses penyelenggaraan pemerintahan provinsi di seluruh Indonesia. IGI merupakan kelanjutan dan penyempurnaan dari Partnership Governance Index (PGI) yang dilakukan tahun 2008 oleh Knowledge and Resource Center (KRC), sebuah unit di Partnership yang juga menjadi lumbung pengetahuan, keahlian dan pengalaman mengawal reformasi tata kelola pemerintahan di Indonesia. Hasil PGI 2008 telah memberikan kontribusi yang signifikan bagi perbaikan tata pemerintahan kita dan sudah diakui oleh UKP4 (Unit Kerja Presiden Bidang Pengawasan dan Pengendalian) dan Kementerian Dalam Negeri (Kemendagri). Kedua lembaga negara tersebut bahkan merekomendasikan agar hasil-hasil PGI bisa dimanfaatkan sebagai alat evaluasi dan monitoring penyelenggaraan tata kelola pemerintahan di daerah. Bukan hanya itu, pengakuan juga datang dari dunia internasional. UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) sebagai lembaga PBB yang membidangi pembangunan internasional memasukkan PGI sebagai salah satu materi dalam Users\u27 Guide to Measuring Local Governance

PENERAPAN PENDEKATAN MULTIMODAL BERBASIS KECAKAPAN VISUAL DALAM PEMBELAJARAN MENULIS

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh rendahnya minat menulis siswa SMK Nasional Bandung. Hal ini disebabkan oleh beberapa kesulitan dalam kegiatan menulis baik permasalahan kebahasaan juga masalah di luar bahasa yang masih menjadi kendala bagi siswa. Berdasarkan penelitian yang dilakukan UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) tentang Index Pembangunan Manusia (IPM) yang salah satu indikator penilaiannya adalah hasil tes menulis orang dewasa. Menurut UNDP, kualitas Sumber Daya Manusia Indonesia pada tahun 2007 berada pada urutan 107 dari 169 negara. Oleh karena itu, peneliti ingin mengujicobakan pendekatan multimodal berbasis kecakapan visual dalam pembelajaran menulis. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah eksperimen kuasi. Data penelitian dikumpulkan melalui pengumpulan tes menulis, lembar obaservasi guru, lembar observasi siswa, wawancara, dan respons siswa. Mutimodal berbasis kecakapan visual dalam pembelajaran menulis menunjukkan hasil yang positif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pembelajaran menulis sebelum dan sesudah perlakuan mengalami peningkatan. Peneliti menyarankan agar melakukan penelitian yang lebih mendalam dari segi aspek dengan media pembelajaran yang berbeda serta sampel yang lebih besar sehingga multimodal berbasis kecakapan visual dalam pembelajaran menulis dapat dikembangkan.---The research based on the lack of write interesting especially in description text writing at SMK Nasional Bandung. It is due to some difficulties about linguistic and non linguistic problems for students. Based on UNDP (United Nations Development Programme or Badan Program Pembangunan PBB) research about IPM (Index Pembangunan Manusia) which is one of the assesment indicators is the result of adult writing tests. According to them, the quality of human resources in 2007 was the 107th rank of 169 countries. Therefore, researcher want to test multimodal-based visual skills approach in description text writing. The research method used experiment quasi and the research data collected by written test, teachers observation sheet, students observation sheet, interview, and students response. The research result showed that there was an increase before and after treatment. The researcher suggest to conduct more in-depth research in terms of aspect with different learning media and longer sample so that multimodal-based visual skills in description text could be developed

Unequal Development in the 1990s: Growing Gaps in Human Capabilities

Questions about global income inequality inspire some of the most contentious debates among not only academics but politicians and the public at large. People look to data on income inequality as they might a stock market index to gauge how the world is doing. Are things on the right track? Is enough being done? In this age of globalization, the question is inevitably about whether 'Globalisation' – meaning liberalisation of economies and the integration of global trade and capital flows – brings prosperity or not. The controversies raging today over the many studies coming to different conclusions depend on how the questions are asked, and which data series are used. Such debates indicate little more than how economists and statisticians can find many answers to the seemingly same questions. More fundamentally, these debates mask attention on the growing disparities in human lives

World human development : 1870-2007

How has wellbeing evolved over time and across regions? How does the West compare to the Rest? What explains their differences? These questions are addressed using an historical index of human development. A sustained improvement in wellbeing has taken place since 1870. The absolute gap between OECD and the Rest widened over time, but an incomplete catching up –largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in terms of longevity. As the health transition was achieved in the Rest, the contribution of life expectancy to human development improvement declined. Meanwhile, in the OECD, as longevity increased, healthy years expanded. A large variance in human development is noticeable in the Rest since 1970, with East Asia, Latin America and North Africa catching up to the OECD, while Central and Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa falling behin

Wellbeing and reproductive freedoms: assessing progress, setting agendas

Wellbeing, Rights and Reproduction Research Paper II