{ "framework": "National Capability Framework", "name": "Governance & Integrity", "version": "0.1", "supersedes": "0.0", "version_date": "2026-08-16", "metadata": { "description": "Version 0.1 of the Governance & Integrity domain of the National Capability Framework, released in coordination with Information & Influence v0.1 and completing the framework's first revision cycle. This release restructures the domain from eight capability groups and 24 capabilities to eight groups and 28 capabilities, carrying the entire group skeleton, the only domain in the framework to do so, applies the rule that every description opens 'The capacity to' together with the corollary established for this territory, that an index is not an institution and the capability is the machinery the index observes, establishes the machinery, performance, position indicator read beneath every capability so that the expert-coded democracy measurement programmes, perception-based governance indicators, rule-of-law factor assessments and press-freedom rankings the domain famously attracts are cited at the position layer rather than replicated as nodes, and validates the structure against the standing diagnostics of state machinery worldwide: electoral management and parliamentary assessment regimes, justice and policing assessments, regulatory-policy and public-integrity indicator systems, audit-institution performance frameworks, right-to-information ratings, e-government, identity-coverage and statistical performance indices, organised-crime resilience assessments, disaster risk reduction frameworks and the civil-defence, supply-preparedness and societal-resilience machinery standing up across four continents since 2022.", "change_summary": [ "The corollary applied at the domain where it matters most: an index is not an institution, and the perception and composite constructs held as v0.0 capabilities, political stability, policy predictability, corruption prevalence, trust in institutions and the rule-of-law composite itself, demote to the performance and position layers of named machinery, where the leading measurement programmes are cited rather than replicated. This resolves the domain's regime-neutrality problem by design: the framework records whether institutions exist and function, and the contested normative judgements live at the position layer.", "The entire v0.0 group skeleton carries, because it mirrored the structure of the external measurement regimes and was sound; the restructuring happens at capability level, where index constructs give way to machinery and ten new capabilities stand up.", "Political institutions completed: electoral management and integrity, and the legislature and deliberative institutions, stand up as new capabilities, the framework's most conspicuous prior absences; participation carries as the one home, absorbing the influence domain's participation node; and trust and cohesion, arriving from the dissolved identity group, demote to the group's performance layer read by the standing trust surveys.", "The justice group completes as court, door, rights and watchers: judicial capability, access to justice and fundamental rights carry recast, and the fairness node relocates in from the trust group, recast from the outcome to the machinery that pursues it, national human-rights institutions, ombudsman and equality bodies.", "Internal security rebuilt as the domestic-order chain: policing carries recast, criminal justice and corrections stands up as the chain's second capability, and organised-crime and illicit-economy response stands up as its third, pairing with financial integrity in Financial Strength as one phenomenon read through two lenses.", "The regulatory group becomes the rule-making state and the instruments home: regulatory quality carries with the whole statute family promised by the economic release reading here while each administering authority stays with its domain; regulatory delivery and independent regulators stands up; and strategic controls and economic security administration stands up, landing the export-control, investment-screening and research-security promises made by the Critical Technology and economic releases, with employment ruled a mode belonging to influence and position remaining with the economic dimension.", "Government effectiveness becomes the machinery of the state itself: centre of government, civil service and digital delivery carry recast, and two foundational capabilities stand up, legal identity and civil registration, and statistical and data capability, the latter landing the deferral recorded in the economic release, so the framework now holds the capacity of the state to know its own country.", "Integrity consolidates to enforcement and prevention, with political finance, lobbying and conflict-of-interest regulation folded into one integrity system and prevalence demoted to the layers where it is measured.", "Transparency completes as the state opened, the state audited and the watchdogs protected, with media freedom recast from the condition to the protection machinery and the seam to the influence domain drawn: accountability function here, international reach there.", "The resilience settlement: the crisis group is rebuilt as National Resilience & Crisis Management, the framework's resilience home, resolving every reference to a resilience destination made across the first-revision releases, food security, biosecurity response, household shock absorption, systemic continuity and the social protection floor among them; risk assessment and early warning, and social protection and household resilience, stand up as new capabilities beside the three carried; and the group is designed to lift out whole should the framework's public triad later require a standalone domain.", "Cross-dimension repairs: the business-environment node retires to the economic dimension's indicator layers, closing the last duplicate of the revision cycle, and the three cohesion nodes arriving from the influence domain resolve into one participation merge and two demotions.", "Identifier persistence: the domain code, all eight capability group codes and eighteen capability codes are carried, one capability by in-domain relocation; six codes are retired (see retired_codes), every one a demotion to a named indicator layer; all new nodes carry null codes pending assignment.", "Capability groups reordered to the domain line and documented per node in the order_logic field: voice, judge, order, rule, deliver, clean, open, endure, with the resilience group closing the domain and the framework.", "Corrections to the house standard: spellings normalised and every description rewritten from definition to capacity." ], "retired_codes": [ { "code": "factbase.org/cap/7A09TEFH09", "name": "Political Stability", "disposition": "Demoted to the position layer across the domain: stability is a perception read of the whole machinery, absorbing the equivalent reading of the influence domain's retired stability node, never a capability." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/V63BJTZM0A", "name": "Rule of Law Enforcement", "disposition": "Demoted: the rule-of-law composites read at the position layer across the justice and order groups; the enforcing machinery they observe is held by the policing, criminal-justice and court capabilities." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/M1CTRA6W03", "name": "Policy Predictability", "disposition": "Demoted to the performance layer under Regulatory Quality & Better Regulation: predictability is what good rule-making machinery delivers." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/292V1PJT1F", "name": "Business Environment", "disposition": "Demoted to the economic dimension's indicator layers, under its firm-creation and investment-attraction capabilities, closing the cross-dimension duplicate: the machinery lives there, and the standing business-environment assessment reads there." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/3HS2CQMM1X", "name": "Corruption Prevalence", "disposition": "Demoted under Public Integrity & Anti-Corruption: prevalence is the performance read and the perception indices the position read of the integrity machinery, the domain corollary applied at its most famous node." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/AJXKJ8361F", "name": "Trust in Institutions", "disposition": "Demoted to the performance layer across Political Institutions & Civic Participation, absorbing the influence domain's retired civic-trust node: trust is what the institutions earn, read by the standing trust surveys." } ] }, "description": "The capacity to govern: consent organised through political institutions, law upheld by independent justice, order kept by accountable force, rules made and administered well, the state's work delivered, its integrity kept, its actions open to scrutiny and the nation able to endure shock and recover.", "boundary_conditions": "Governance & Integrity holds the machinery of the state under the corollary shared with the influence domain: an index is not an institution, the capability is the machinery the index observes, and every capability reads machinery, performance, position at the indicator layer, headline first, so that the expert-coded and perception-based measurement programmes are cited at position rather than replicated as nodes, and the framework holds every regime type without normative collapse. The seams: external defence is National Security's, with constabulary and gendarmerie forces dual-read, force generation there and domestic policing here; illicit finance is Financial Strength's integrity capability, with the criminal networks behind it held here, one phenomenon through two lenses; competition machinery is Production & Innovation's and financial supervision Financial Strength's, with the remaining regulatory state held here; budgets, revenue, procurement and public investment are the economic dimension's fiscal capabilities, with the centre of government, civil service and delivery machinery held here; the services delivered are Human Capital's and Strategic Infrastructure's, with the delivery channels held here; identity technology is Critical Technology's and digital rails Strategic Infrastructure's, with the registries and statistical system held here; the statute book's quality is held here across every domain's laws, with each administering authority remaining in its home domain; strategic controls are administered here, their leverage reading with Critical Technology's control layer and the economic dimension's leverage group, their employment belonging to influence, a mode, not a node; electoral interference splits three ways, technical intrusion to National Security, content defence to influence, electoral protection here; domestic media freedom is held here as accountability machinery, with international reach in influence; and the resilience group is the framework's home for societal shock, absorbing every resilience reference made across the first-revision releases and designed to lift out whole if the public triad later requires a standalone domain. Excluded by design: regime type as such, which the framework records through machinery and reads through position, and the composite governance rankings, which are position layers, never nodes.", "order_logic": "Eight beats: voice, judge, order, rule, deliver, clean, open, endure. Consent gives authority, law disciplines it, force serves the law; the state then makes its rules, delivers its work, and is guarded by its integrity and transparency machinery, with endurance closing the domain and the framework. Within groups the institution precedes the outcome it produces and the protective capacity closes; at the indicator layer every capability reads machinery, performance, position, with the headline measure leading within each, so the perception and index constructs this domain attracts read at the final layer rather than standing as nodes.", "version_changes": "Restructured from eight capability groups and 24 capabilities to eight groups and 28 capabilities with the entire group skeleton carried, rewritten from index constructs to the machinery the indices observe: ten new capabilities stand up, elections, legislature, criminal justice, organised-crime response, regulatory delivery, strategic controls administration, legal identity, statistical capability, risk assessment and social protection, six identifiers retire by demotion to named indicator layers, and boundary_conditions and order_logic are documented at every level, closing the framework's first revision cycle.", "code": "factbase.org/dom/9Z9ZK1SX2S", "level": "domain", "capabilityGroups": [ { "name": "Political Institutions & Civic Participation", "description": "The capacity to organise consent: elections that hold, a legislature that deliberates and scrutinises, and the participation between elections through which citizens keep their voice.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds the machinery of consent, regime-neutral by design: the machinery is recorded here, and the democracy measurements read at the position layer. Electoral interference protection is held here, with technical intrusion National Security's and content defence the influence domain's; diaspora voting reads here with the diaspora machinery in influence; trust and cohesion, including the nodes arriving from the influence domain, are the group's performance layer, read by the standing trust surveys; and political finance regulation sits with the integrity group.", "order_logic": "The voice beat of the domain line. Consent expressed, consent institutionalised, consent continuous: the election first, the assembly it seats, and the participation between elections closing.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Public Trust & Legitimacy) with the same identifier and renamed to the machinery it now holds: elections and the legislature stand up as the framework's most conspicuous prior absences, participation carries as the one home absorbing the influence domain's node, the fairness node relocates to the justice group recast as machinery, and trust demotes to the performance layer.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/XKHA8B8624", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Electoral Management & Integrity", "description": "The capacity to run elections that hold: an electoral management body with independence and competence, registration and results machinery that works under pressure, and dispute resolution that settles outcomes rather than igniting them.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the electoral machinery; interference protection is coordinated here with the technical and content defences held by National Security and the influence domain, and clean-election measures and electoral-integrity assessments are the performance and position layers.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: the framework held no electoral capability anywhere, an absence made untenable by the centrality of election quality in every external measurement programme.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "electoral integrity score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "voter registration coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "voter turnout", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "election disputes resolved before inauguration", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Legislature & Deliberative Institutions", "description": "The capacity to deliberate and constrain: a legislature with the committees, analytical support and scrutiny powers to make law well and hold the executive to account.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers parliamentary machinery; budget scrutiny reads with the economic dimension's expenditure capability, law-making quality with the regulatory group, and legislative-constraint measures are the position layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: the second chamber of the framework's most conspicuous absence, with legislative constraint a core construct of the external measurement programmes and no machinery previously recorded.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "legislative constraints on the executive score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "bills subject to committee scrutiny", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "parliamentary budget analysis capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Citizen Participation & Civic Space", "description": "The capacity to keep participation open between elections: consultation and petition machinery, associational freedom in practice and the civic space in which citizens organise, volunteer and dissent.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the participation machinery and the space it needs; trust and cohesion are the group's performance layer rather than nodes, and civic-space monitors read at the position layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Citizen Participation) with the same identifier, absorbing Shared Values & Civic Participation (retired) from the influence domain: one home for participation, with Trust in Institutions and the influence domain's civic-trust node demoted to the group's performance layer.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/B5B7X7P80H", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "civic space rating", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "civil society organisation density", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "public consultation practice", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "institutional trust survey scores", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Justice System & Fundamental Rights", "description": "The capacity to do justice: courts that decide on law alone and in reasonable time, doors open to everyone with a grievance, rights that hold under pressure and independent institutions that watch the watchers.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds the civil-justice and rights machinery; the criminal chain from prosecution to corrections is the order group's, with the courts' independence read across both; justice statute is the regulatory group's quality concern, with the operating system held here; and the rule-of-law composites read at the position layer across this group and the next, never as nodes.", "order_logic": "The judge beat of the domain line. The court first, the door to it, the rights it protects, and the institutions that watch the watchers closing.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Judicial Independence / Civil Liberties) with the same identifier; three capabilities carry recast from principles to machinery, and the fairness node relocates in from the trust group, recast from the outcome to the human-rights institutions and equality bodies that pursue it.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/G9RRYBNA1E", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Judicial Independence & Court Capability", "description": "The capacity to decide on law alone: courts with the independence, competence and throughput to resolve disputes impartially and in time for the resolution to matter.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the courts as machinery; appointment and tenure arrangements are the machinery layer, case processing the performance layer, and judicial-independence and constraint measures the position layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Judicial Independence) with the same identifier; recast from the principle to the court capability that embodies it.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/5XM99YKX2C", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "judicial independence score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "case clearance rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "average trial duration", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Access to Justice & Legal Services", "description": "The capacity to open the courts to everyone: legal aid and assistance machinery, simplified procedure where it belongs and the reach that closes the gap between having a right and using it.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the access machinery; the justice gap and civil-justice measures are the performance and position layers, and consumer and small-claims channels read here with sector regulators in the regulatory group.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; recast from the ability of people, an outcome, to the machinery that creates it.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/P84GVFK92S", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "unmet legal need incidence", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "legal aid expenditure per capita", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "civil justice accessibility score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Fundamental Rights Protection", "description": "The capacity to hold rights under pressure: the constitutional and legal frameworks, remedies and enforcement practice that keep expression, assembly, belief and equal treatment real rather than recited.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the rights frameworks and their enforcement; the specialised institutions are the neighbouring capability's, media freedom is the transparency group's, and rights measures read at the position layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Civil Rights Protections) with the same identifier; recast from the safeguards as description to the protecting capability.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/ZCVZA8XN0Y", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "civil liberties score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "fundamental rights factor score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "treaty body compliance record", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Human Rights Institutions & Equality Bodies", "description": "The capacity to watch the watchers: accredited national human-rights institutions, ombudsman offices and equality bodies with the independence, mandate and teeth to pursue fairness against the state itself.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the specialised institutions; accreditation status and caseload are the machinery and performance layers, and equal-treatment outcomes read at the position layer across the domain.", "version_changes": "Relocated in v0.1 from the trust group (formerly Fairness & Equality) at the same level, carrying its identifier under the relocation convention; recast from the outcome to the institutional machinery that pursues it.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/RQBPC7K809", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "national human rights institution accreditation status", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "complaints received and resolved by equality bodies", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Internal Security & Order", "description": "The capacity to keep order under law: policing that protects and is accountable, a criminal-justice chain that runs from charge to corrections, and a standing response to the organised crime that tests both.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds the domestic-order chain; external defence is National Security's, with constabulary and gendarmerie forces dual-read, force generation there and policing here; border management is Trade & Investment's customs capability and National Security's concern; illicit finance is Financial Strength's integrity capability, with the criminal networks held here; and stability perceptions and the rule-of-law composites read at the position layer, absorbing the retired stability and enforcement nodes.", "order_logic": "The order beat of the domain line. The chain in sequence: the police who act first, the justice chain that follows through corrections, and the standing response to organised threat closing.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Stability & Rule of Law) with the same identifier and renamed to the machinery it holds: policing carries recast, criminal justice and organised-crime response stand up, and the stability and composite nodes demote to the position layer.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/CN6GHBRH1T", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Policing & Law Enforcement", "description": "The capacity to police by consent or lose the capacity to police at all: forces with the reach, competence, accountability and community standing to prevent and respond to crime.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the policing machinery; oversight of the police reads with the transparency and rights groups, victimisation and clearance are the performance layer, and gendarmerie force generation dual-reads with National Security.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Citizen & Institutional Security) with the same identifier; recast from the protection, an outcome, to the policing capability that provides it.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/E7ZX4KDV08", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "intentional homicide rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "police personnel per 100,000", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "public trust in police", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "crime victimisation rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Criminal Justice & Corrections", "description": "The capacity to run the chain from charge to release: prosecution services, criminal courts and corrections systems that punish lawfully, protect the public and return people better than they came.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the criminal chain; court independence is the justice group's, criminal-justice factor assessments read at the position layer, and corrections conditions and reoffending are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: v0.0 held the principle of enforcement but none of the chain's machinery; the chain stands up as one capability.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "criminal justice factor score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "pre-trial detainee share of prison population", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "reoffending rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Organised Crime & Illicit Economy Response", "description": "The capacity to fight networks rather than incidents: standing units, intelligence-led operations, asset recovery and the cross-border cooperation that organised crime forces on every state.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the response machinery; illicit financial flows are Financial Strength's integrity capability, one phenomenon through two lenses, and criminality and resilience assessments read at the performance and position layers.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: the standing response to criminal markets, assessed globally as a resilience construct and absent from v0.0.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "organised crime resilience score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "criminality score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "asset recovery value", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Regulatory Governance & Strategic Controls", "description": "The capacity to rule well: rules made with evidence and consultation, applied by regulators that are independent and predictable, and the strategic controls of the security age administered as competently as any tax.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds the rule-making state and the instruments home. The quality of the whole statute book reads here, every domain's laws, with each administering authority remaining in its home domain: financial supervision with Financial Strength, competition with Production & Innovation, and the remaining regulatory state here; strategic controls are administered here, landing the promises of the Critical Technology and economic releases, with their leverage reading at that domain's control layer and the economic dimension's leverage group, and their employment belonging to influence, a mode, not a node; and predictability is the performance read of good machinery, not a capability.", "order_logic": "The rule beat of the domain line. Make the rules well, apply them well, and administer the strategic controls closing at the security edge.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Policy & Regulatory Quality) with the same identifier and renamed to its widened scope: regulatory quality carries, regulatory delivery and strategic controls stand up, the predictability node demotes to the performance layer and the business-environment node retires to the economic dimension's indicator layers, closing the revision cycle's last duplicate.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/N952FB2S0Q", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Regulatory Quality & Better Regulation", "description": "The capacity to make rules well: impact assessment, consultation, post-implementation review and the stock management that keeps the statute book coherent across every domain of national life.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers rule-making machinery for the whole statute book, with each administering authority in its home domain; regulatory-policy indicator systems read at the machinery and performance layers, and predictability, absorbing the retired node, is the performance read.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Legislative & Regulatory Quality) with the same identifier; recast to the better-regulation machinery, absorbing Policy Predictability (retired) at its performance layer.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/M5KHAWTJ0V", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "regulatory quality score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "regulatory impact assessment adoption", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "stakeholder consultation practice score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Regulatory Delivery & Independent Regulators", "description": "The capacity to apply the rules as written: sector regulators and inspectorates with independence, competence and proportionate enforcement, so that the law on the books is the law in force.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the regulatory state in operation; financial supervision and competition machinery are held by their home domains, infrastructure-sector regulation reads here with the assets in Strategic Infrastructure, and enforcement consistency is the performance layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: v0.0 held the quality of rules but not the machinery that applies them, the half of regulation firms and citizens actually meet.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "regulator independence ratings", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "inspection and enforcement consistency", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "licensing turnaround times", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Strategic Controls & Economic Security Administration", "description": "The capacity to administer the controls of the security age: export-control licensing, investment screening, sanctions designation and research-security machinery run with the competence, speed and due process of a mature tax administration.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the administering machinery, the instruments home promised by earlier releases; the leverage the controls exercise reads with Critical Technology's control layer and the economic dimension's leverage group, their employment as statecraft belongs to influence, and licensing throughput and screening caseload are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: the statutory economic-security regimes standing on four continents made the absence of an administering capability the framework's most dated gap; it stands up as the group's closer.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "export licence applications processed and turnaround", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "investment screening cases reviewed", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "designated critical products under control", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Government Effectiveness & Public Administration", "description": "The capacity to run the state: a centre that steers, a civil service that staffs, delivery that reaches citizens digitally and in person, registries that ground every entitlement and a statistical system through which the state knows its own country.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds the machinery of the state itself, the machinery of government promised by the economic release. Budgets, revenue, procurement and public investment are the economic dimension's fiscal capabilities, with the coordinating centre held here; the services delivered are Human Capital's and Strategic Infrastructure's, with the delivery channels held here; identity technology is Critical Technology's and the digital rails Strategic Infrastructure's, with the registries and the statistical system held here; and subnational government capability reads across the group's machinery layers.", "order_logic": "The deliver beat of the domain line. Steer, staff, serve, register, know: the centre first, the workforce, the delivery channels, the foundational registries, and the statistical system closing as the state's self-knowledge.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Government Effectiveness) with the same identifier; three capabilities carry recast to machinery, and two foundational capabilities stand up, legal identity and civil registration, and statistical and data capability, the latter landing the deferral recorded in the economic release.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/KJ8Z07R70G", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Centre of Government & Policy Coordination", "description": "The capacity to steer the state: a centre that coordinates across ministries, drives priorities to delivery and turns decisions into implementation rather than announcements.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the coordinating centre; the budget lever is the economic dimension's fiscal machinery, crisis coordination is the resilience group's, and delivery against stated priorities is the performance layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Policy Implementation) with the same identifier; recast from implementation, the outcome, to the centre-of-government machinery that produces it.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/GDVWXCAQ1V", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "government effectiveness score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "delivery against published government priorities", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Civil Service & Public Workforce", "description": "The capacity to staff the state on merit: recruitment, development and renewal of a professional public workforce that survives political turnover and improves between crises.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the workforce machinery; pay and pension financing reads with the economic dimension's fiscal capabilities, skills provision with Human Capital, and civil-service effectiveness assessments read at the position layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Public Administration Quality) with the same identifier; recast from quality, the outcome, to the workforce machinery.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/V475YQQ019", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "civil service effectiveness ranking", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "merit-based recruitment score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "public sector employment share", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Digital Government & Service Delivery", "description": "The capacity to deliver the state's work through channels people can actually use: digital services, one-stop platforms and the delivery machinery that carries every domain's services to citizens and firms.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the delivery machinery, not the services: healthcare and education are Human Capital's, utilities Strategic Infrastructure's, with the channels held here; e-government and government-technology maturity indices read at the performance and position layers.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Service Delivery Capacity) with the same identifier; recast from the services, which belong to other domains, to the delivery machinery, closing the overlap.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/TESME8S60F", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "e-government development score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "government services available end-to-end online", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "digital service usage rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Legal Identity & Civil Registration", "description": "The capacity to know who exists: civil registration of births and deaths, legal identity for every person and the foundational registries on which every entitlement, election and protection stands.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the registry system; the identity technology is Critical Technology's trust capability and the infrastructure Strategic Infrastructure's, with registration completeness and identity coverage as the performance layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: the foundational registries beneath elections, taxation, protection and statistics had no node anywhere in the framework.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "birth registration coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "population with legal identity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "death registration completeness", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Statistical & Data Capability", "description": "The capacity of the state to know its own country: an independent national statistical system, sound data governance and the measurement base on which every other capability's indicators, and this framework itself, depend.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the statistical system and data governance, landing the deferral recorded in the economic release; adherence to international data standards and statistical performance indices read at the machinery and position layers, and every domain consumes what this capability produces.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: deferred to this domain by the economic release and standing up here as the state's self-knowledge, the group's closer.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "statistical performance score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "census conducted within the last decade", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "adherence to international data dissemination standards", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Public Integrity & Anti-Corruption", "description": "The capacity to keep the state clean: anti-corruption institutions that investigate and convict without fear, and the integrity systems that prevent what enforcement would otherwise have to punish.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds the integrity machinery; illicit financial flows are Financial Strength's integrity capability, procurement integrity reads with the economic dimension's expenditure machinery, political finance, lobbying and conflict-of-interest regulation are held here as one integrity system, and prevalence and the perception indices are the performance and position layers of the machinery, never nodes.", "order_logic": "The clean beat of the domain line. The enforcing edge first, the preventive system closing: investigation and prosecution, then the integrity architecture that makes them rarer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Integrity & Anti-Corruption) with the same identifier; the two machinery capabilities carry recast and the prevalence node demotes to the layers where it is measured, the domain corollary applied at its most famous node.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/VGMWGM8A0G", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Anti-Corruption Institutions & Enforcement", "description": "The capacity to investigate and convict the powerful: anti-corruption bodies with mandate, independence and resources, and the enforcement record that makes the mandate real.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the enforcing machinery; asset recovery reads with the order group and financial integrity with Financial Strength, and convention-review findings and enforcement data are the machinery and performance layers.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Anti-Corruption Framework) with the same identifier; recast from the framework as description to the institutions and their enforcement record.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/0Z3T2F2A2S", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "corruption enforcement actions and convictions", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "anti-corruption agency budget and independence", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "convention review compliance", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Public Sector Ethics & Integrity Systems", "description": "The capacity to prevent corruption before it needs punishing: asset declarations, conflict-of-interest management, lobbying transparency and political-finance regulation run as one integrity system.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the preventive architecture; public-integrity indicator systems read at the machinery layer, and corruption prevalence, absorbing the retired node, is the performance read with the perception indices at position.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; broadened to the full integrity system including political finance and lobbying, absorbing Corruption Prevalence (retired) at its indicator layers.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/33W3CXFT0J", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "bribery incidence rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "asset declaration compliance", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "corruption perception score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "lobbying register coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Transparency, Oversight & Accountability", "description": "The capacity to be watched: the state opened through information rights, audited by independent institutions and reported on by media whose freedom and safety the state protects even when it hurts.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds the accountability machinery; budget transparency reads with the economic dimension's expenditure capability, parliamentary oversight with the political-institutions group, and the media seam is drawn: the domestic accountability function and journalist protection are held here, with international reach the influence domain's.", "order_logic": "The open beat of the domain line. The state opened, the state audited, the watchdogs protected closing.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Transparency & Accountability) with the same identifier; all three capabilities carry, with information rights and audit recast to machinery and media freedom recast from the condition to the protection machinery that sustains it.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/GKQA9DSC1F", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Right to Information & Open Government", "description": "The capacity to open the state: information law that works in practice, proactive disclosure and open data through which the government's actions can be seen without asking twice.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the openness machinery; right-to-information ratings and open-government assessments read at the machinery and position layers, and response performance under the law is the performance read.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Access to Information) with the same identifier; recast from the public's right, the condition, to the machinery that honours it.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/MAC8Y2X90V", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "right to information law strength rating", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "information request response rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "open data availability score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Independent Oversight & Supreme Audit", "description": "The capacity to audit the state independently: a supreme audit institution with mandate, access and follow-through, and the wider oversight web that turns findings into consequences.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the audit and oversight machinery; audit-institution performance frameworks provide the standing capability diagnostic, parliamentary follow-up reads with the political-institutions group, and implementation of findings is the performance layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Oversight & Audit) with the same identifier; recast from the mechanisms as description to the auditing capability and its consequences.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/AV8HN5FC1R", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "supreme audit institution independence score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "audit coverage of public expenditure", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "audit recommendations implemented", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Independent Media & Journalist Safety", "description": "The capacity to sustain media that hold power to account: legal protection for reporting, safety mechanisms for journalists and the conditions in which public-interest media survive commercially and politically.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the domestic accountability function and its protection machinery, with international reach the influence domain's capability; journalist-safety mechanisms read at the machinery layer and the press-freedom indices at position.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Media Freedom) with the same identifier; recast from the freedom, the condition, to the protection machinery that sustains it, with the seam to the influence domain drawn.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/EHGBZ92A16", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "press freedom score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "journalists killed or imprisoned", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "media ownership plurality", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "National Resilience & Crisis Management", "description": "The capacity to endure: seeing shock coming, commanding the response, protecting the population, cushioning its households and recovering stronger, whatever the hazard and whatever the cause.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds societal resilience as the framework's home for it, resolving every resilience reference made across the first-revision releases: financial-system stability remains Financial Strength's, supply security Trade & Investment's and stockpiles Strategic Infrastructure's, with the machinery that decides and coordinates held here; food security resolves as a read across the agrifood, stockpile and this group's capabilities; health-security response pairs here with Human Capital's detection, per the verb split; the social protection floor lands here as household shock absorption, with its financing in the fiscal group and delivery through the effectiveness group; civil preparedness pairs with National Security's mobilisation across the civil-military seam; and the group is designed to lift out whole should the framework's public triad later require a standalone resilience domain.", "order_logic": "The endure beat, closing the domain and the framework. See it coming, command the response, protect the population, cushion the households, recover and adapt: risk first, then leadership, protection, the social floor, and recovery closing.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Resilience & Crisis Response) with the same identifier and rebuilt as the framework's resilience home: the three response capabilities carry recast to the civil-defence era, and risk assessment and social protection stand up, landing the household-resilience promise of the economic release.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/8BZS9P5Q2N", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "National Risk Assessment & Early Warning", "description": "The capacity to see shock coming: a standing all-hazards national risk picture, the warning systems built on it and the honesty to publish what the assessment finds.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the risk and warning machinery; supply-dependency mapping is Trade & Investment's supply-security capability and threat intelligence National Security's, with multi-hazard warning coverage as the performance layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: standing national risk assessment is now near-universal machinery among capable states and had no node in v0.0.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "national risk assessment published within review cycle", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "population covered by multi-hazard early warning", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Crisis Leadership & Coordination", "description": "The capacity to command a crisis: standing whole-of-government crisis machinery, clear authority when the sirens sound and the exercises that make the first real activation the hundredth rehearsal.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the coordinating machinery; the centre of government it draws on is the effectiveness group's, military support is National Security's, and activation and exercise records are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Crisis Coordination) with the same identifier; recast from coordination as process to the standing crisis-leadership machinery.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/NH3Q9D6129", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "standing national crisis machinery in place", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "whole-of-government crisis exercises conducted", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Civil Protection & Emergency Management", "description": "The capacity to protect the population: response services at scale, shelter and warning for civilians, and the whole-of-society preparedness, guidance to every household, trained volunteers, civil obligations where chosen, of the new civil-defence era.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers civil protection through to population preparedness; military assistance is National Security's, biosecurity response pairs with Human Capital's detection and Trade & Investment's border machinery, and preparedness coverage and response performance are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Emergency Preparedness) with the same identifier; broadened to the civil-defence turn, dedicated resilience agencies, household preparedness guidance and reactivated civil obligations, that has professionalised this capability since 2022.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/V53T5PKB0D", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "disaster mortality per 100,000", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "population reached by preparedness guidance", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "civil protection volunteers per capita", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "shelter capacity coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Social Protection & Household Resilience", "description": "The capacity to cushion households when shock arrives: safety nets that exist before the crisis, scale in it and reach the informal economy, so that national shocks do not become family catastrophes.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the social floor as shock absorption, landing the promise of the economic release's labour group; financing is the fiscal group's, delivery runs through the effectiveness group's channels, and coverage and shock-response speed are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: the household half of national resilience, promised by the economic release and previously held nowhere.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "population covered by at least one social protection benefit", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "benefit adequacy relative to median income", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "time to scale support after shock", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Recovery, Continuity & Adaptation", "description": "The capacity to come back stronger: continuity of government and essential functions through disruption, recovery machinery that rebuilds better and the adaptation planning that retires risks instead of rescheduling them.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers continuity, recovery and adaptation planning; the assets rebuilt are Strategic Infrastructure's and supply preparedness reads with Trade & Investment's supply security, with recovery speed and adaptation delivery as the performance layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Recovery & Continuity) with the same identifier; broadened to adaptation, closing the group, the domain and the framework on the capacity to endure.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/HY7AEVQ90R", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "economic losses from disasters as share of GDP", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "insured share of disaster losses", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "national adaptation plan status", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "essential service restoration times", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] } ] }