A Users' Guide to Measuring Local Governance

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Contents (continued) Source Guide 45 How to use the Source Guide 46 Summary matrix: Main features of tools profiled in the Source Guide 49 Individual profiles of tools 1. Urban Governance Index (UN-HABITAT) 52 2. Local Governance Barometer (Impact Alliance) 60 3. Good Governance for Local Development – GOFORGOLD Index (Afghanistan) 66 4. Local Democracy Assessment Guide (International IDEA) 70 5. Indicators of Local Democratic Governance (Tocqueville Research Centre & OSI) 74 6. Methodological Guidelines for Local Governance Analysis (UNDP) 78 7. Governance Index (Indonesia, Kemitraan - Partnership) 81 8. Measuring Municipal Performance – MIDAMOS (Paraguay) 86 9. Observatory of Democracy in Central America: System of Legal and Institutional Governance Indicators for Central America (Centro Estudios para el Futuro) 90 10. Desde lo Local – Strategic Decentralization for Local Development (Mexico) 94 11. Council of Europe’s Guide to Developing Well-Being & Progress Indicators with Citizens - Application of the Governance Module in Timisoara (Romania) 99 12. Citizen Report Cards (Public Affairs Centre, India) 103 13. Social Audit of Local Governance (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 107 14. Social Audit of Governance and Delivery of Public Services (Pakistan) 111 15. Local Governance Self-Assessment (Bangladesh) 117 16. Governance for Local Development Index - GOFORDEV Index (Philippines) 121 17. Assessments Informing Performance Based Grant Systems (UNCDF) 124 18. Local Governance Performance Management System (Philippines) 130 19. Index of Responsibility, Transparency and Accountability (Macedonia) 135 20. Standards of Municipal Transparency (Chile) 138 21. Local Integrity Initiative (Global Integrity) 141 22. Methodology for the Assessment of Capacity of Municipalities in Turkey and the Western Balkans to Deliver Basic Services (UNDP) 146
Acknowledgements AUTHORS Alexandra Wilde Shipra Narang Marie Laberge Luisa Moretto EDITOR Joachim Nahem, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are indebted to Nenad Rava and Andrew Nickson who contributed to earlier versions of this guide, and to Paul van Hoof (IDASA) who served as peer reviewer. We are also grateful to Lenni Montiel, UNDP (Democratic Governance Group) and Henrik Fredborg Larsen, UNDP (Bangkok Regional Centre) for their valuable contributions. Finally, this Guide could not have been written without cooperation from our interviewees. We are grateful for their insights and honesty in speaking with us. LIST OF INTERVIEWEES • Bishnu Puri, National Programme Manager, UNCDF-Decentralized Financing and Development Programme (DFDP) Nepal • Daniel Cravacuore, La Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina • Edgardo Bilsky, United Cities and Local Governments • Fatmir Musa, UNDP Macedonia • Gould Margot, Democracy Assessment and Analysis, International IDEA • Ieva Lazareviciute, UNDP Brasil • Irman Lanti, Indonesia Democracy Index. UNDP Indonesia • Janey Lawry-White, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP NY • Krenar Loshi, UNDP Kosovo • Laura Soria, Jefa Del Programo Urbano • Nirinjaka Ramasinjatovo, Researcher/Trainer for the Local Governance Barometer • Patrick Breard, expert on governance • Sugumi Tanaka, Urban Development Branch, UN-HABITAT • Tomislav Novovic UNDP Serbia • Tony Verheijen, World Bank • Velibor Popovic, UNDP Serbia A Users’ Guide to Measuring Local Governance v
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Page 5: Contents Acknowledgements Acronyms
Page 9 and 10: Introduction This Guide is intended
Page 11: 1 Assessments of Local Governance
Page 14 and 15: Decentralized governance for develo
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Page 18 and 19: A critical step in developing an as
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Page 22 and 23: achieve the results. These can incl
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Page 35 and 36: Voices from the Trenches 2 2.1 Choo
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Summary matrix: Main features of to
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Table 3: UGI sub-indices and indica
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Weaknesses • While the UGI helps
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Table 4: Local Governance Barometer
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Table 5: Scale to assess local gove
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Jean-Michel Dufils, PACT (Madagasca
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Table 6: Principles and indicators
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Where to find it The initiative is
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Table 7: Local Democracy Assessment
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Poverty focus Not explicit. The onl
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Local governance performance measur
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Europe. They have first been used i
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Table 9: Methodological Guidelines
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7 Governance Index (Indonesia) Prod
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Table 12: Example of form for colle
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Where to find it The initiative is
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Table 15: MIDAMOS’s themes, indic
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Table 17: Grading System Qualificat
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Table 18: Framework of module on
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Key actors/stakeholders The initial
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Table 20: Indicators belonging to t
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Table 25: Evaluation and comments f
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Box 5: Citizen Report Card applicat
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13 Social Audit of Local Governance
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Box 7: Sample indicators for Social
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14 Social Audit of Governance and D
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Box 8: Report extract - The Social
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Table 26: Themes and issues analyse
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15 Local Governance Self-Assessment
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Table 27: EXAMPLES OF KEY ISSUES FR
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16 Governance for Local Development
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Coverage Following the pilot testin
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Table 32: PBGS in Uganda, Tanzania
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Table 34: Nepal - Summary of the st
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Manual for assessment of Minimum Co
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Table 35: LGPMS - perfofrmance them
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Coverage The LGPMS was field-tested
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Gender focus Not explicit. Poverty
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Table 39: Dimensions for the standa
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Table 42: Integrity Indicator score
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Figure 6: 2008 Scorecard Summary: L
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Table 43: Two examples of questions
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