Archive for June, 2010

Data in measuring corruption and governance at country level

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Delving into this area is often a nightmare because little has been done even by the national statistical offices in Africa. It is a bear truth that national statistical offices have the duty of collecting and safeguarding all the data in a given country, but even a simple survey shows that none of them currently [...]

Climate governance and the question of equity

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

The just concluded international conference on climate governance in Berlin, Germany, held on the 15th June, 2010, organized by Inwent and Transparent International attempted to discuss the key issues of knowledge & information access, equity and the economy in addressing climate change. However, the common denominator seemingly emerged as failure to define equity! Does equity [...]

Measuring socio-economic impacts of HIV/AIDS & malaria

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

It seems straightforward, but a second-long pause reveals serious hitches especially when you intend to carry out this measurement in a developing country. Inwent (read as Invent), a Germany based, non-profit organisation with a major focus on Capacity Building with worldwide operations dedicated to human resource development, advanced training and dialogue delved into this important, [...]