HDR Reviews
In order to ensure excellence in analysis and to capture lessons learned and practice from HDR teams worldwide, a comprehensive review strategy is strongly recommended.
Peer Review Process
As of November 2002, UNDP adopted a policy that each national and regional HDR must undergo a process of peer review prior to publication. This is the responsibility of the country offices. The peer review is a way to maintain objectivity and assure quality of research and analysis and should be undertaken during the final stages of the preparation process. Peers must be selected and contacted by UNDP and/or the HDR team, thereby ensuring that their expertise is relevant and the feedback they offer is of value.
Examples:
- Latvia NHDR Review 2000-1 [141 KB]
- Solomon Islands NHDR Review 2002 [112 KB]
HDR Technical Reviews
HDRO has conducted a transparent and participatory strategy to review reports and to capture lessons learned and practice from the growing number of reports published by UNDP offices world wide. The review has examined how different reports have adhered to and applied the six principles outlined in the UNDP Corporate Policy on National Human Development Reports. The findings of the review exercise have fed into UNDP’s results based management efforts and have been shared at various levels. The technical review methodology was designed and approved by the UNDP Executive Team in 2003.
Access the database of reviews in this section .
Additional Reviews
Evaluation of National Human Development Reports - UNDP Evaluation Office
The UNDP Evaluation has conducted an evaluation of the system of National Human Development Reports that has evolved since 1992. This evaluation draws strategic lessons from the successes and weaknesses of the NHDR system, in order to sustain its contributions and improve its future effectiveness.
- Evaluation of NHDR [573 KB]
- Management response to the evaluation of the NHDR system [71 KB]
- Informe sobre los informes: Resultados de la encuesta sobre la elaboración de los Informes de Desarrollo Humano 2006-07 [624 KB]
Asia and Pacific Region
This review was prepared by A.K. Shiva Kumar and was presented as a background paper for the Seoul Workshop on NHDRs. The paper reviews the Asian NHDRs and provides very interesting insights. It covers such issues as (i) the treatment of the human development concept in NHDRs, (ii) use of data and human development indices, (iii) ownership and consultative processes, (iv) maximizing policy impact of NHDRs, and much more.
- Asia and Pacific Region [163 KB]
NHDR Write-Ups
The Virtual Development Academy's Practitioner Course on Human Development solicited from its participants a brief snapshot of National Human Development Reports. Those listed below originate from members of the teams who authored the Reports. They offer a very good window into the NHDR process on several themes. Seeta Prabhu, of UNDP India and moderator of this course, has compiled this selection:
Poverty, Inequality and Exclusion
- Argentina: 2005 NHDR [15 KB]
- Bolivia’s 2007 NHDR [16 KB]
- Brazil: Human Development Report 2006 [13 KB]
- China HDR 2005: Development with Equity [17 KB]
- The 2006 HDR for Croatia [9 KB]
- Pacific Islands NHDR [26 KB]
- National Human Development Report: São Tomé e Príncipe, 2001 [17 KB]
- Timor-Leste: The Path Out of Poverty [15 KB]
Response to Globalization
- Armenia: The 2006 NHDR [21 KB]
- NHDR of Thailand in 2007: Sufficiency economy and Human Development [14 KB]
Conflict, Peace and Human Security
- Angola’s 2004 Human Development Report [13 KB]
- Colombia: The 2003 NHDR [12 KB]
- The Kenyan HDR 2006: Human Security and Human Development – A Deliberate Choice [13 KB]
- Philippines: The 2005 National Report [13 KB]
Gender
- The Rise of Women in the Arab World 2005 [18 KB]
- Azerbaijan National Human Development Report: Challenges faced by people and policy implications [14 KB]
HIV/Aids
