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iChallenge Workshop: Objectives, Progress, and Outline Opening session Paris, October 29-30 2014 Contact: Vivek Srivastava, [email protected]
iChallenge Workshop: Objectives, Progress, and Outline
O p e n i n g s e s s i o n P a r i s , O c t o b e r 2 9 - 3 0 2 0 1 4
Contact: Vivek Srivastava, [email protected]
Develop a roadmap for how indicators of government performance can be improved Is the iChallenge approach to
measurement on the right path?
How can indicators from a citizen’s perspective be used to measure the functioning of government?
Develop viable ideas for indicators with a plan for how they can be collected. Showcase top 3 submissions to the
iChallenge
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2 Objectives
What are we trying to measure?
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Government performance
Governance
Accountable and inclusive institutions
State capacity
Strength of public management systems
Effective institutions
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Our Approach
Central agencies
Downstream delivery bodies
Capacity Outcomes
Sector outputs: services,
public investment, regulation
Capacity
Pro
cedu
res
Sources of political control/
micro-management
Measure sector outputs and outcomes.
Measure the autonomy, capacity, and procedures of central agencies.
Model of the Public Sector Ongoing debate in the Governance Journal:
Recent discussions have been more about state capacity than governance. One criticism is that the citizens’ perspective is not explicitly incorporated.
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Progress to date
public management systems
public financial management
tax administration
procurement
public admin/civil service
public information
criteria regularly collected indicators
5 100 5
action-worthy
actionable
behavioral
replicable
feasible
0 5 10 15 20 25
Public admin/civil service
Procurement
Tax administration
Public informatation
PFM
# existing indicators
+ TADAT
+ Open data
188
economies
22,700
observations
Indicators of the Strength of Public Management Systems
92 iCHALLENGE ideas +
Donors
International Community
Government Officials
$ Investors
Businesses Citizens
From whose perspective?
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Adding citizens to the model
Central agencies
Downstream delivery bodies
Capacity Outcomes
Sector outputs: services,
public investment, regulation
Capacity
Pro
cedu
res
Sources of political control/
micro-management
Model of the Public Sector… with citizens?
Citizens
What do strong public management systems look like for citizens?
How to measure? • Perceptions
• Experience
• Behavior (proxies)
• Administrative data
Day 1, Session 1 : What are we are measuring and why?
How can we incorporate citizen’s perspectives?
Day 2, Session 2 : Recognize the winners of the iChallenge and discuss their
proposals
Day 2, Session 3 : How useful are these indicators and this approach for various
stakeholders and potential users?
Possible areas for further work:
The use of administrative data
Incubating indicators in difficult areas
Incorporating citizen perspectives
Building consensus
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Workshop Outline
Oct.
29
Wednesday
Oct.
30
Thursday
Should we continue with this effort?
If “yes”, then in what directions?
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Key questions
