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METAGORAA Pilot Project on Measuring
Democracy, Human Rights and Good Governance

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The Issues Human Rights
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VICTIMS
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Gaps and filters of current reporting on HR
violations
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The Issues Governance
The Issues Human Rights

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The Issues Governance
The Issues Governance

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The Isses Governance
The Issues Governance

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The Spirit of Montreux

• Gathering together statisticians, human rights
  practitioners and development experts
• Human rights approach to development issues
• Multidisciplinary review of monitoring and
  evaluation methods
• Matching quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Developing indicators and proper tools for
  policy-oriented reporting
• Capacity building and empowering civil society

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The Spirit of Montreux

• A quest for a Science of Human Dignity
• through multidisciplinary research,
  policy-oriented analysis and effective
  transmission of know-how

Mary Robinson Former UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights Montreux, 4.9.2000
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Steps

• Montreux IAOS Conference on Statistics,
  Development and Human Rights (4-8.9.2000)
• Munich EU Workshop on Measuring Governance
  (21-23.1.2002)
• Merida CNDH International Seminar on Statistics
  and Indicators for National Human Rights
  Diagnosis (3-5.4.2002)
• Brussels EU Seminar on Statistics and Human
  Rights (27-29.11.2002)

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NSIs
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NSIs
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Munich Task Force

• Need for a large consultation
• Formulating objectives and priorities
• Identification of relevant feasible pilot
  activities
• Design and draft of a detailed pilot project
• Identification of appropriate work structures
• SFSO acting as the interim secretariat
• Advice and support of Eurostat and EC-Aidco

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The Aim of Metagora

• is to develop and apply proper methods and tools
• for measuring, assessing and reporting on
• democracy,
• human rights and
• good governance.

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The Focus

• Design, test and pilot application of statistical
  methods and tools in human rights assessment.
• Indicators of governance and participatory
  democracy in the development context.
• Matching quantitative and qualitative approaches.
• Producing tangible and relevant policy-oriented
  outcomes.
• Establishing a strong reference framework.

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Metagora Objectives1. Experts and expertness

• Gathering together the existing expertness.
• Establishing dynamic multidisciplinary
  approaches.
• Interrelating quantitative and qualitative
  analysis.
• Validating results trough rigorous peer-review.
• Achieving effective transmission of know-how
  through mutual learning and technical assistance.

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Metagora Objectives2. Participatory process

• Establishing multidisciplinary, inclusive and
  participatory working methods.
• Generating co-operation links and synergies
  between distant partners.
• Developing dialogue and co-operation between the
  academia, human rights institutions, NGOs, NSIs,
  governmental bodies and IO.
• Decompartmentalizing mentalities, methods and
  practices of experts, researchers and officials.

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Metagora Objectives3. National policies

• Enhancing target countries expertness and
  capacities to evaluate progress in DHRGG.
• Providing governments and independent bodies with
  operational tools for assessing policies.
• Empowering the role, voice and means of the civil
  society.
• Strengthening national participatory dialogue on
  the aims, framework and outcomes of DHRGG
  assessment.

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Metagora Objectives4. International policies

• Addressing the international needs for reference
  frameworks in the field of human rights
  indicators and governance assessment.
• Improving monitoring and evaluation of
  co-operation programs in the fields of DHRGG.
• Strengthening the EU network in the fields of
  DHRGG.

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Metagora Objectives5. Partnership

• Strengthening the North/South network growing
  within the Montreux/Munich/Merida process.
• Promoting and supporting South/South co-operation
  and twinning.
• Arousing sense of own and shared responsibility
  for the process towards the Metagora goals.

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Operational Framework

• A PILOT PROJECT
• Duration 24 months
• Budget 2,25 million Euro
• Management OECD / Paris21

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Funding

• Metagora is financed by
• The European Commission (EUR 1510000)
• France (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, EUR
  100000)
• Sweden (SIDA, EUR 200000) and
• Switzerland (SDC and Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
  EUR 440000 plus secondment of a JPO).

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Metagora Fields of Activity

• Analytical assessment of initiatives and current
  work on indicators of HR and GG
• Survey-based national human rights diagnosis
• Data bases and quantitative / qualitative
  analysis tools for monitoring human rights
• Frameworks, tools and methods for evaluating
  governance and democracy in the development
  context
• Producing a draft outline manual on measuring
  DHRGG

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Method of Work

• Multidisciplinary approach
• Policy-oriented action
• A networking-based decentralised laboratory
• A few selected pilot activities, locally-based
• Strictly outcome-oriented work
• Potential of replication and extension
• Co-ordination of expertness and field action
• Inclusive advisory bodies

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Selected pilot activities shall

• relate to the operational orientations emerging
  from the Montreux/Munich/Merida Process
• be inclusive and participatory
• produce tangible results and policy-oriented
  reporting within very short deadlines
• have a great potential of synergy and
  interaction
• be oriented towards replication and extension in
  different countries, continents and cultural
  contexts (exemplarity and multiplier effect).

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A Decentralized Laboratory
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Metagora Activities
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Survey-based national human rights diagnosis

• Activities in MEXICO and PHILIPPINES
• Design and test of a pilot sample survey on human
  rights
• Analysis of data and policy-oriented report
• Evaluation consistency of methods, relevance of
  results, comparison with other monitoring tools
• Preparing extension and replication in other
  countries

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Databases and quantitative / qualitative
monitoring tools

• Activities in SRI-LANKA and PALESTINE
• Coding, matching and analysing data on human
  rights violations from different sources.
• Developing a dynamic database on democracy and
  human rights for systematic recording and
  matching of data over time.
• Design of a limited set of indicators.
• Technical capacity building (NGOs and HRIs).
• Evaluation consistency of methods, relevance of
  results, comparison with other monitoring tools.

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Evaluating governance and ademocracy in a
development context

• Activities in AFRICA and the ANDEAN REGION
• Hearing the voice of the poor trough existing
  household sample surveys (multi-country).
• Developing a pilot survey on performance of
  democracy (South-Africa).
• Matching objective and subjective data.
• Developing context-based indicators and related
  reporting.

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Draft outline manual

• Detailed presentation of methods and results of
  pilot activities.
• Indications for further extension and
  replication.
• Compilation of first lessons.
• Recommendations for further action.
• Proposals and orientation on emerging relevant
  research areas.

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Analytical assessment of current work and
initiatives

• International initiatives for monitoring DHRGG
  (UN Committees and Bodies, international NGOs).
• Relevant national initiatives.
• Development of indicators.
• Academic research.
• Extension of current database frame.
• Critical assessment.

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Metagora Activities
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Metagora Advisory Board High level
representatives of some 30 national and
international organisations involved and/or
strongly interested in the project.
Metagora Co-ordination Team 5 persons in charge
of management, co-ordination and animation
Metagora Experts Panel 15 experts technical
assistance to NIOs, assessment of options and
evaluation of pilot activities, synthesis and
consolidation of project results, drawing lessons
and recommendations, drafting reports and outline
manual.

• Projects functioning

National Implementing Organisations (NIO)
conducting field operations of targeted
multi-country pilot activities data collection
analysis test of methods, tools and indicators
applied research case studies.
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National Implementing Organisations (NIOs)

• Fundar - Centro de análisis e investigación
  (Mexico City)
• National Commission on Human Rights (Manila)
• Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  (El-Bireh)
• Dial Développement et insertion internationale
  (Paris)
• Secretaría de la Comunidad Andina (Lima)
• Human Sciences Research Council (Pretoria)
• American Association for the Advancement of
  Science, Science and Human Rights Program
  (Washington)
• Human Rights Centre, University of Essex (Essex)

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Project Donors EC France Sweden Switzerland
Metagora Advisory Board High level
representatives of some 30 national and
international organisations (donors, NIOs, I0s,
NSIs, academia and NGOs)

• Governance structure

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Paris21 Task Team onTools and Methods
Convener Mr. Philippe Pommier, France Terms
of reference and membership are still to be
defined.
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Paris21 Steering Committee
Chairman Mr. Pali Jubo Lehohla, South
Africa Members EC, IMF, OECD, UNDP, UNFPA,
UNSD, World Bank, and countries representing
Anglophone and Francophone Africa, Arab States,
Asia Pacific, Central South America, CIS
countries, EU Member States, Switzerland and USA
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Current Status andNext Steps

• Sweden and Switzerland already transferred to the
  OECD their contributions to Metagora
• An EC/OECD agreement should be signed by the end
  of April 2003.
• OECD is taking the administrative and legal steps
  in view to host the project very soon.
• Installation of the Project Co-ordination Team in
  the OECD/Paris21 Secretariat by June 2003.
• Starting first field operations in July 2003.

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THANK YOU
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