A Users' Guide to Measuring Local Governance

Table 18:
Framework of module on “Local Government and Decentralisation” and
examples of indicators
AREAS OF VARIABLES VARIABLES NUMBER AND EXAMPLE OF INDICATORS
1 local government
and its attributes
1 Constitutional and legal recognition of the
frame of competitions and the operations of
the local governments
2 Characteristics of the municipal
management and performing of services
3 Nature and elements of the Municipal
Finances and Patrimony
6 indicators e.g.: Existence of constitutional norms that regu
late the organization and operation of the local
governments.
8 indicators e.g.: There are annual programs of qualification
and training which facilitate the promotion of the skills and
the knowledge of the municipal civil employees.
11 indicators e.g.: Constitutional and/or legal norm that forces
the transfer (transference of national rents) of resources to
the local governments.
4 Coordination levels 2 indicators e.g.: The municipality has capacity for:
• Co fraternize and external relations with municipalities of
other countries
• Reception of cooperation of international agencies or
bilateral from other countries
• Inter-institutional agreements.
2 proximity of the
power to the
citizen, system of
election,
participation and
accountability
3 nature,
environment and
the decentralised
government
1 The Municipalities as spaces of democracy
close to the citizens, election processes and
electoral system and municipal representation
2 Existence of forms, organisations and spaces
of citizen participation at the municipal level
3 Existence of mechanisms of accountability,
municipal information and citizens complaints
1 Citizen health and environmental municipal
competences
6 indicators e.g.: In the last municipal election, parity in
gender representation was reached.
4 indicators e.g.: Existence in the law or electoral code of
a Consultative assembly
b Public hearings
c Municipal council
d Open municipal council
e Plebiscite
f Referendum
g Citizen consultation
3 indicators e.g.: Forms or mechanisms to communicate the
situation of the Municipality with regard to profits, advances
and plans.
3 indicators e.g.: Existence of control of waters
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