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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 92 UNDP Oslo Governance Centre
Key actors/stakeholders The initial assessment was led by national research institutions, in conjunction with a national steering committee composed on key government stakeholders. Results were shared and validated at multi-stakeholder national workshops, and the national steering committee selected priorities for reform from the assessment results. Results reporting format See table 19. Gender focus Not explicit in the module concerning “Local Governments and Decentralisation”. Poverty focus Not explicit in the module concerning “Local Governments and Decentralisation”. Strengths • This new system of indicators is considered by some international experts to be the most extensive effort to date for the development of a fine-grained measure of juridical governance for Central America and a major contribution to the Central American debate on democracy and to development assistance for straightening democratic institutions. • The tool is unique in its three-pronged assessment focus on substantive rights (existence of proper legal provision), procedural rights (existence of effective mechanisms and procedure to implement these rights) and systemic rights (interactions between legal provisions and other systemic factors – such as public budgets, proper institutions and public officials). Weaknesses The exclusive reliance on objective data makes results ‘indisputable’ but falls short of describing the quality of these mechanisms. Coverage Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica. Timeline Initiated in 2002. On-going. Where to find it http://www.epfcentroamerica.org/proyecto.htm Contact details Estudios para el Futuro 300 meters on the east of Universidad Veritas, Carretera a Zapote Apartado postal 2324-1000 San José, Costa Rica Teléfonos: (506) 225-7512 y (506) 281-2026 Fax (506) 224-9549 epf@epfcentroamerica.org www.epfcentroamerica.org Supplementary tools/guidelines Country results and indicator matrices can be accessed at http://www.epfcentroamerica.org/matriz.htm An English translation of indicator matrices can be found on the Governance Assessment Portal (www.gaportal.org) or else the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre can be contacted directly (oslo.governance.centre@undp.org). A Users’ Guide to Measuring Local Governance 93
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Contents Acknowledgements Acronyms
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Acknowledgements AUTHORS Alexandra
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Introduction This Guide is intended
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1 Assessments of Local Governance
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Decentralized governance for develo
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and local specificity. In order to
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A critical step in developing an as
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Box 5. Key phases in a governance a
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achieve the results. These can incl
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Gender-sensitivity in governance is
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1.11 Key contextual factors influen
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findings of the assessment in ways
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for union parishads (UPs) comprise
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Box 14. Short-, Medium- and Long-Te
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Voices from the Trenches 2 2.1 Choo
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governments, and representatives of
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the assessment - in terms of social
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Case Studies 3 The following four f
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Case Study 2: Moving from governmen
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Case Study 3: Balancing comparabili
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Figure 6: 2008 Scorecard Summary: L
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Table 43: Two examples of questions
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