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Nomination form for 2009 National and Sub-national Reports Awards

Instructions: This nomination form is curriculum vitae for your HDR. We urge you to answer the questions as comprehensively as possible in the space allowed. Read the accompanying criteria for each awards category and refer directly to the relevant criteria when responding to the questions. Please submit the completed form electronically by 31 May 2009.

Your Name
Your Email
Title of the nominated HDR
Country (specify the Region for sub-national reports)
Date of Publication
Name of CO HDR Focal Point(s)
Names of principal contributors to the HDR and their affiliations
For which category are you nominating this HDR? (National human development reports may be nominated for up to two categories.)
Innovation in Measurement Participation and Inclusiveness in Report Preparation
Policy Analysis Influencing National Policy Debates

Please, refer directly to the relevant criteria while explaining why you think the HDR you intend to nominate has achieved excellence in this category.

1. Innovation in Measurement

  • Adaptations in any of the indices to better reflect the local situation
  • Innovation in applying or disaggregating the HDI or other indices across gender, ethnic, urban/rural, etc. groupings with relevant technical notes.
  • Presentation of new composite indices, experimentation with dimensions or aggregations, etc. provided that technical notes offer a relevant theoretical framework, statistical methodology is sound, and the index work strengthened overall analysis and advocacy of the Report
  • Innovative combination of quantitative and qualitative data enhancing analysis
  • Implementation of new statistical or data collection methods

2. Participation and Inclusiveness in Report Preparation

  • The authors represented a diversity of national institutions/organizations
  • Events for public debate and feedback mechanisms throughout the development of the report contributing to national capacity development
  • Quantitative/qualitative data reflecting people’s opinions and aspirations
  • Consultations with groups concerned by the NHDR theme as backbone for the development of the analysis

3. Policy Analysis

  • Critical and evidence-based evaluation or analysis of relevant existing policies
  • The analysis contemplates diverse views of key governmental and non-governmental institutions, including people’s views and aspirations
  • Analysis of aspects of the regional or global context that broaden or limit national choices
  • Innovative reflection on what human development means in the local context
  • Analysis of the relationship between human development and a theme that has not yet been explicitly analyzed in the global HDR
  • Elaboration of issues not addressed in the global HDR that may lead to new thinking on human development at the global level

4. Influencing National Policy Debates

  • Outreach strategy beyond the launch with the involvement of the authors of the report and through public discussions about NHDR’s findings
  • Public debate on critical national human development issues inspired by the NHDR (e.g. extensive media coverage or civil society campaigns)
  • Clear uptake in national or sectoral strategies, new or reformed policies, or changes in resource allocation or legislation triggered by the findings of the report
  • UN Country Team processes and programming, including UNDAF, CCA, Theme Groups, and MDG work, informed by the findings of the report.

Please provide a detailed explanation, following the scheme below, on how the HDR you intend to nominate has complied with the 6 NHDR Corporate Principles.

National/regional Ownership

Is the report nationally driven and owned? Was there a national Steering Committee and/or an Advisory Panel overseeing the preparation of the HDR? How were the members selected? What was the stated mandate? Please provide a list of members and their affiliations.
Does the report reflect national perspectives, including through recommendations linked to the country's development plans and policies?.
Does the report rely primarily on national expertise and capacities, building national credibility and ownership?

Participatory and Inclusive Process

Was the NHDR team multidisciplinary, drawing on perspectives and expertise from diverse groups and institutions?
Did consultation, research and writing for the production of the report involve participatory mechanisms at various stages (e.g. steering committees, readers' groups, seminars)? To what degree were socially excluded groups and other and other stakeholders directly affected by policy analysis and recommendations included in the preparation process? Does the report contain a description of its preparation?
Please describe any coordination or collaboration with other UNDP programmes and/or other UN agencies and donors. (For example, work in support of other MYFF service lines, MDG reporting, CCA, UNDAF, other UNCT activities, Consultative Group meetings, etc.)

Independence of Analysis
Does the report contain objective and reliable analysis as well as accurate and unbiased data, to avoid support for the policies or politics of any one group or institution?
Do the author(s) take responsibility for the report's point of view? Did they exercise full editorial independence? Does the editorial team represent a spectrum of perspectives?
Was the full draft of the report peer-reviewed?

Quality of Analysis

Please explain how the HDR provides a people-centered approach to the theme in both analysis and recommendations, including its treatment of multi-dimensional poverty, economic growth, inequality and excluded groups, human rights, gender, environment, sustainability, governance, etc.?
Does the report contain concrete, sound and realistic policy messages?
Is there a disaggregated HDI? Were there any surveys/research conducted specifically for this HDR? Please describe. What were the principal sources of the data presented in the HDR?
Does the report draw on experiences from other countries?
Are there standard references and notes (i.e. definition, technical notes, bibliography, etc.)?

Flexibility and Creativity in Presentation

Was the HDR made available on the UNDP CO website?
no yes
Does the year on the cover of the Report match the year in which it was launched?
no yes
Was the text made available in any other way to the public? (For example partner institution's websites, newspaper/magazine excerpts, professional/academic journals, etc.)
Does the report summarise major policy recommendations in one place?
Is the report written using easy-to-understand language? Does the report provide real examples that highlight people's perspectives? Does the report employ a variety or presentation techniques, such as tables, graphs, figures, etc?
Please list and describe any accompanying material that was developed with the HDR and made available to the public. (This kind of material can range from posters and buttons to background papers, children's versions of the HDR, and documentaries)

Sustained Follow-up

Has a follow up strategy been planned, using expertise in the advocacy and communication fields, and does it aim to keep the report's message alive for a sustained period of time? (please provide example of outreach activities and attached the outreach strategy document, if it was compiled)
Does the report contain specific policy messages to focus political attention and public debate?
Has the team drawn upon those involved in shaping the HDR for launch and follow-up activities?
Is there a means to measure the influence of the report and has a person been designed to manage this process?
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