Measuring & Assessing Democratic Governance Pro-poor & gender-sensitive indicators
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Pro-poor & gender-sensitive indicators
Aim of the guide
Why pro-poor & gender-sensitive?
Framework for selection
Underlying values & principles Gender-sensitive indicators Pro-poor (gender-sensitive) indicators Tools for identifying indicators Applications 2
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GOVERNANCE areas
Parliamentary Development Electoral Systems Human Rights Justice Access to Information & the Media Decentralisation & Local Governance Public Administration Reform & Anticorruption
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Why pro-poor & gender-sensitive GOVERNANCE indicators?
Form groups to answer the question: why should governance indicators be pro-poor & gender-sensitive?
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Framework for selecting pro-poor & gender-sensitive indicators to measure democratic governance
AIM: to assist policy-makers to monitor & evaluate democratic governance at country level
Existing indicators
developed by external stakeholders to compare & rank countries Not designed to assist countries Not pro-poor or gender-sensitive
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Based on normative values
Citizens control public decision-making & decisionmakers
Citizens should be equal in exercising such control
Women/men Poor/non-poor
Normative values of democratic governance
Participation Representation Accountability Transparency Responsiveness Efficiency Equity 6
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Three levels of indicators
Start from objectives – what is to be indicated? Outcome
Process
what do we want to achieve? How will we know we have achieved it? What do we have to do in order to achieve it? How will we know that we are doing it?
Inputs
What is needed to create these processes? How will we know they are available?
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What would gender-sensitive GOVERNANCE indicators look like?
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Gender-sensitive indicators
Disaggregated by sex
Specific to or targeted toward female or male sex
“Implicitly gendered”
Chosen by women
No reference to sex BUT Of particular relevance to females or males Why not men? Participation of women
Based on data defined, collected, presented & disseminated taking into account differences between women & men
Women decision makers Women enumerators, processors, etc
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Group review
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Compare your output with the framework for gender-sensitive indicators
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Differences? Similarities? Comments?
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What would pro-poor GOVERNANCE indicators look like?
Form groups to answer this question
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Pro-poor indicators
Disaggregated by poverty status
Specific to or targeted toward the poor
Implicitly pro-poor – more relevant or important to low income groups
Chosen by the poor
Participatory
Gender-sensitive – take into account different impact of poverty on women & men
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Group review
Return to your previous flip chart
Compare your output with the framework for pro-poor indicators
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Differences? Similarities? Comments?
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Pro-poor indicators must also be gender-sensitive
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Other dimensions of disaggregation
Democratic values require BROAD participation
Ethnicity – female/male; poor/non-poor
Location – rural / urban; female/male etc
Disability – etc etc
A major challenge for monitoring & evaluating democratic governance 15
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Some tools for selecting indicators
Process flow chart – framework for developing questions about specific governance processes
Key questions – for each stage in the process, how do women/the poor/ etc participate, how are they affected?
Integrated indicator matrix – summarizes & classifies available indicators, shows gaps
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Using indicators
Exploring relationships between indicators for policy analysis
Linking input and output indicators to assess the effectiveness of interventions
Eg training for women candidates What % of those trained stood for election? What % of those who stood were successful? Did a higher % of women MPs lead to greater consideration of women’s issues? 17
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GOVERNANCE areas
Parliamentary Development Electoral Systems Human Rights Justice Access to Information & the Media Decentralisation & Local Governance Public Administration Reform & Anticorruption
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Based on normative values
Citizens control public decision-making & decisionmakers
Citizens should be equal in exercising such control
Women/men Poor/non-poor
Normative values of democratic governance
Participation Representation Accountability Transparency Responsiveness Efficiency Equity 19
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Applying the framework: Budgeting
In groups, prepare process flow chart for one UNDP governance area
Formulate key questions in terms of elements of democratic governance
Use questions to identify potential pro-poor and gender-sensitive indicators – prepare matrix
Prepare flip charts for sharing Time: 45 minutes
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