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With support from the World Justice Project of the American Bar Association, 27 researchers from Altus member organizations in Chile, India, Nigeria and the United States developed a set of 60 rule of law indicators and tested them in four cities around the world: Chandigarh, Lagos, New York City, and Santiago. The project launched in January 2008 and was presented at the World justice Forum in Vienna, Austria, on July 3, 2008.
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Our collaboration, methodology, preliminary findings and lessons learned can be found in “Developing Indicators to Measure the Rule of Law: A Global Approach” which was distributed at the World Justice Forum as a complementary component of the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index. The methodology described in the report emphasizes the need for empirically defensible measures that gauge the operation of the rule of law as experienced by people around the world.
It also emphasizes the use of multiple data collection methods as an essential component of measuring progress and demonstrates that, if sufficiently flexible, rule of law indicators can be used successfully even in so-called “data poor” environments.
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The Vera-Altus Indicators Project confirmed that local partnerships are essential to designing and implementing indicators to strengthen the rule of law. As our global team of researchers develop and refine our rule of law indicators, Altus will continue to provide a global network to test the methodology and engage regional partners building local capacity and expanding this work.
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