Community Indicators for Your Community

Real, lasting community change is built around knowing where you are, where you want to be, and whether your efforts are making a difference. Indicators are a necessary ingredient for sustainable change. And the process of selecting community indicators -- who chooses, how they choose, what they choose -- is as important as the data you select.

This is an archive of thoughts I had about indicators and the community indicators movement. Some of the thinking is outdated, and many of the links may have broken over time.

Monday, August 24, 2009

New Governance Assessment Portal Newsletter Available

I don't know if you've seen the Government Assessment Portal (GAP) Newsletter yet, but I'd like to draw it to your attention because of the creative ways people are measuring government performance.

Articles in the newsletter include:

  • Bhutan: Planning for happiness
  • Angola: On its way to better local governance
  • Chile: Taking stock of democratic progress
  • Workshop in Cairo: Assessment Methods and Application of Governance Evidence
  • Workshop in Namibia: Call for participants
  • Work in the Pipeline
Take a peek, especially on the challenges Bhutan is facing on trying to operationalize its focus on Gross National Happiness and Chile's efforts to "develop a governance assessment in Chile through a multi-stakeholder nationally driven process."

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