A Users' Guide to Measuring Local Governance
A Users' Guide to Measuring Local Governance
A Users' Guide to Measuring Local Governance
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Key ac<strong>to</strong>rs/stakeholders<br />
The initial assessment was led by national research<br />
institutions, in conjunction with a national steering<br />
committee composed on key government<br />
stakeholders. Results were shared and validated at<br />
multi-stakeholder national workshops, and the<br />
national steering committee selected priorities for<br />
reform from the assessment results.<br />
Results reporting format<br />
See table 19.<br />
Gender focus<br />
Not explicit in the module concerning “<strong>Local</strong><br />
Governments and Decentralisation”.<br />
Poverty focus<br />
Not explicit in the module concerning “<strong>Local</strong><br />
Governments and Decentralisation”.<br />
Strengths<br />
• This new system of indica<strong>to</strong>rs is considered<br />
by some international experts <strong>to</strong> be the most<br />
extensive effort <strong>to</strong> date for the development of<br />
a fine-grained measure of juridical governance<br />
for Central America and a major contribution<br />
<strong>to</strong> the Central American debate on democracy<br />
and <strong>to</strong> development assistance for straightening<br />
democratic institutions.<br />
• The <strong>to</strong>ol is unique in its three-pronged<br />
assessment focus on substantive rights<br />
(existence of proper legal provision), procedural<br />
rights (existence of effective mechanisms and<br />
procedure <strong>to</strong> implement these rights) and<br />
systemic rights (interactions between legal<br />
provisions and other systemic fac<strong>to</strong>rs – such as<br />
public budgets, proper institutions and public<br />
officials).<br />
Weaknesses<br />
The exclusive reliance on objective data makes<br />
results ‘indisputable’ but falls short of describing<br />
the quality of these mechanisms.<br />
Coverage<br />
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa<br />
Rica.<br />
Timeline<br />
Initiated in 2002. On-going.<br />
Where <strong>to</strong> find it<br />
http://www.epfcentroamerica.org/proyec<strong>to</strong>.htm<br />
Contact details<br />
Estudios para el Futuro<br />
300 meters on the east of Universidad Veritas,<br />
Carretera a Zapote<br />
Apartado postal 2324-1000 San José,<br />
Costa Rica<br />
Teléfonos: (506) 225-7512 y (506) 281-2026<br />
Fax (506) 224-9549<br />
epf@epfcentroamerica.org<br />
www.epfcentroamerica.org<br />
Supplementary <strong>to</strong>ols/guidelines<br />
Country results and indica<strong>to</strong>r matrices can be accessed at http://www.epfcentroamerica.org/matriz.htm<br />
An English translation of indica<strong>to</strong>r matrices can be found on the <strong>Governance</strong> Assessment Portal (www.gaportal.org) or else the<br />
UNDP Oslo <strong>Governance</strong> Centre can be contacted directly (oslo.governance.centre@undp.org).<br />
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