A Users' Guide to Measuring Local Governance

Table 19:
Example of an indicator set for one variable & scoring based on 3 parameters (existence;
benchmarking; system efficacy)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND DECENTRALISATION – El Salvador
Dimension I: LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND ITS ATTRIBUTES
Variable I: Constitutional and legal recognition of the frame of competitions and the operation of the local governments
Code Indicator Value Existence of
the norm or
disposition
0.25%
Bench
Marking
0.25%
System
Efficacy
0.50%
Total
%
d1/
v1/i1
d1/
v1/i2
d1/
v1/i3
d1/
v1/i4
d1/
v1/i5
d1/
v1/i6
Existence of constitutional norms that regulate the organization and operation
of the local governments
Norm with which they are governed::
• Law or Municipal Code
• Municipal tributary laws (amnesties, real estate, patents, taxes to economic
activities)
• Law of municipal budgetary regime
• Laws of authorization on the disposition of goods
• Law of municipal transferences
• Law of census (catastro)
• Organic regulations
• Ordinances
• Statutory regime of civil employees
Legal recognition of competitions of the municipal corporations
• Municipal service of electricity
• Cable or Internet municipal service
• Municipal service of potable water
• Municipal service of pluvial and residual drainage
• Services of cleaning and garbage collection
• Management of educative centers
• Municipal Service of rural health
• Construction and maintenance of roads and bridges
• Promotion of sports and recreation
• Civil Registry of the people
• Campaigns that favor the conservation and environment
• Scholarships and subsidies to homes in conditions of poverty
• Attention of emergencies
• Administration of marine-terrestrial zone or border (for the ones that
have this condition)
• Administration of slaughterhouse, market, cemetery or quarry
• Control and regulation of the use of the ground and urban growth.
• Municipal service of collective transport and traffic
• Municipal Service of security
Legal recognition of the organic structure of the local governments
• Municipal council
• Municipal Mayor
• Municipal Commissions
• Companies and municipal societies of services
• Small territorial organs or organizations
• Engineering and management Organs
• Technical –Administrative organs
Normative and jurisprudential recognition of the principle of municipal
autonomy as basic organization of the territorial organization of the State
Municipal jurisdiction in its quality of public administration of territorial character
• Reglamentary and self-organización power
• Tributary and financial power
• Power of programming or planning
• power of expropriation and total disposition of goods
• Power of forced and sanctioning execution
• Power of revision of office of its acts and agreements
10% 0,125 0,125 0,5 15
10% 0,1875 0,1875 0,375 7,50
20% 0,25 0,125 0,25 12,50
10% 0,1675 0,1875 0,375 7,30
20% 0,25 0,25 0,375 17,50
30% 0,25 0,25 0,5 30,00
Total of the Variable 20% 16,96
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