Results of the Learning Project.
Intercooperation (IC) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) have been mandated by SDC to carry out a capitalization of SDC experience in conducting Local Governance Assessments (LGA) in the frame of SDC!s “Decentralization and Local Governance Network” (dlgn).
Questionnaire adressed to the major stakeholders of a Municipality in order to assess the present state of governance in it. This will help defining the priority areas for improvement as well as the stakeholders role in this process.
The Local Governance Self-Assessment tool, as developed by Intercooperation's Local Governance Programme, has to be seen as one among many tools that can contribute to build empowered citizens' participation and accountability into local governance. Part one of the guidelines explains the process of conducting a Local Governance Self-Assessment exercise with citizens and part two explains how to utilize the tool with the Union Parishad.
Local Governance Barometer South Africa Model.
This report synthesizes the important findings and recommendations from various campaign events on developing the Urban Governance Index, field test results, the suggestions and feedback from participating and partner cities and the experience of the Global Campaign on Urban Governance and the Global Urban Observatory. It also draws upon the earlier work done by UN-HABITAT to prepare the draft Sourcebook.
The main objective of the mandate is to capitalize SDC experience in conducting Local Governance Assessments. The main expected result is to generate learnings from the different SDC experiences – with a focus on the purpose of the LGA tools – in order to offer guidance to SDC and its partners on conducting LGAs in the future.The paper features five case studies representative of different regions. Each case relates to a particular LGA tool, developed by different organisations and institutions.
Donor Approaches to Governance Assessments: guiding PrInciples for enhanced Impact, Usage and Harmonisation.
The purpose of this User's Guide is to compile existing knowledge on decentralization and local governance measurement and provide a platform for understanding and navigating the array of assessment tools that exist.