Table 9: Governance
| Author | Title | Description | Access |
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| Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development (CESD) | Website: An organisation similar to New Zealand’s Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment which oversees the Canadian federal government’s efforts to protect the environment and foster (urban) sustainable development. | Online: http://www.oag.bvg.gc.ca/domino/oagbvg.nsf/html/environment.html (Canada) |
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| Institute on Governance | Promotes effective governance, and includes publications on a variety of subjects including accountability and performance measurement, capacity building, technology and youth. | Online: http://www.iog.ca (Canada) |
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| The Global Development Research Center (GDRC) | Urban Governance | Website: Provides information on urban and community governance. There are links to documents, reports and special topics such as leadership and gender issues. | Website: http://www.gdrc.org/u-gov/ (USA) |
| United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | The Urban Governance Initiative (TUGI) | Website: Promotes good urban governance and contains resource material on child-friendly cities, indicators and report cards. | Online: http://www.tugi.org (UN/Malaysia) |
| United Nations - Habitat | The Global Campaign on Urban Governance | A campaign to increase the capacity of local government and other stakeholders to practice good urban governance, developed in 1999 to support the Habitat Agenda goal of developing sustainable human settlements. | Online: http://www.unchs.org/campaigns/governance/ (UN/Kenya/Japan/Brazil) |
| World Health Organisation | Healthy Cities and Urban Governance | Website: Provides national and local governments with information and strategies on the health aspects of issues associated with sustainable development, care and social support, urban planning and transport. A major current project is “Healthy Cities and Networks”. | Online: http://www.who.dk/healthy-cities (Denmark) |
