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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Table 14: Democratic <strong>Governance</strong> Profile of Province X<br />
Province X: Overall <strong>Governance</strong> Index: 4.4<br />
Index Areas Participation Fairness Accountability Transparency Efficiency Effectiveness<br />
Government 3.9 5.5 2.6 5.4 2.8 3.3 4.4<br />
Bureaucracy 4.0 5.3 5.3 1.0 2.5 5.7 6.8<br />
Civil Society 5.4 4.0 7.0 7.0 3.9 5.8 4.9<br />
Economic<br />
Society<br />
4.5 5.5 4.0 5.5 5.5 1.0 5.5<br />
Key ac<strong>to</strong>rs/stakeholders<br />
Each provincial assessment was facilitated by an<br />
independent researcher from Kemitraan-<br />
Partnership, which was responsible for conducting<br />
interviews, collecting secondary data, and<br />
preparing a “provincial profile” <strong>to</strong> be shared and<br />
discussed in a local consultative forum. The<br />
methodology package lists the 32 well-informed<br />
persons <strong>to</strong> be interviewed (e.g. one officer working<br />
in the provincial secretariat, one officer from each<br />
of the 3 parliamentarian commissionx on people’s<br />
welfare, on the economy/industry/trade, on the<br />
local budget and expenditure, one journalist from<br />
the most prominent media in the province, one<br />
academic who is a resource person for the local<br />
government, one representative from the<br />
provincial chamber of commerce, one CSO<br />
representative who has participated in a<br />
consultation with the local government, etc.)<br />
Results reporting format<br />
The final Index is expressed in the form of<br />
Democratic <strong>Governance</strong> Profile as shown in the<br />
following table, with scores between 1 and 10:<br />
Gender focus<br />
Minimal.Within the area “government”, an indica<strong>to</strong>r<br />
assesses the level of women’s political participation<br />
in the provincial parliament by measuring the<br />
proportion of female parliamentarians.<br />
Poverty focus<br />
While the overall aim of the assessment framework<br />
is <strong>to</strong> measure the quality and fairness of policy<br />
formulation and policy implementation processes<br />
(as a proxy of quality and equitable development<br />
outcomes), indica<strong>to</strong>rs do not have an explicit<br />
pro-poor dimension.<br />
Strengths<br />
• Very comprehensive methodology combining<br />
both objective and subjective data sources,<br />
with detailed instructions for users and<br />
ready-made data collection instruments (e.g.<br />
data collection forms with scoring criteria,<br />
guiding questions for interviews, etc.)<br />
• Very actionable indica<strong>to</strong>rs generating data that<br />
can easily used by local policymakers, pointing<br />
<strong>to</strong> specific dysfunctions in local governance<br />
processes<br />
• Draws from an extensive range of objective data<br />
sources from government and administrative<br />
sources which are readily available but rarely<br />
used in other local governance assessments<br />
Weaknesses<br />
• Detailed methodology drawing from multiple<br />
data sources and informants, while ensuring<br />
methodological rigor, requires a significant<br />
amount of time and in-depth research<br />
• Requires country adaptation, as several<br />
indica<strong>to</strong>rs refer <strong>to</strong> institutions and practices<br />
specific <strong>to</strong> Indonesia<br />
Coverage<br />
All Indonesian provinces.<br />
Timeline<br />
2008. On-going.<br />
84 UNDP Oslo <strong>Governance</strong> Centre