Governance: Measurement

and Assessment
Tanjila Afrin
Lecturer
Dept. of Development Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP)
 Introduction

• Measuring governance is inherently a controversial and somewhat political

exercise.
 Types of Assessment

• external assessments
• peer assessments and
• self-assessments
 Two Ways of Assessment

Governance
as a process Governance
Quality
 Two Ways of Assessment

Governance
• Theory (Later)
as a process

Governance
• Different Indices
Quality
 Governance Quality: GOOD OR BAD??
• Worldwide Governance Index (WGI) by WB
https://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/#home
• World Bank Governance Surveys
• Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) by the Bertelsmann Foundation (within OECD
Countries)
https://www.sgi-network.org/2018/
• Examples of country-led assessments include the Indonesian Democracy Index,
monitoring of the 
Millennium Development Goal 9 on Human Rights, and Democratic Governance in Mongo
lia
 and the Gross National Happiness Index in Bhutan.
http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/
 So,

• We can now Focus on Good Governance in more detail