UNDP’s Global Programme on Country-Led Governance Assessments Oslo Governance Centre

1. UNDP’s Global Programme on Country-Led Governance Assessments Oslo Governance Centre

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3. The programme Offers guidance, technical assistance, financial support aimed at strengthening national capacity to conduct democratic governance assessments.

4. Support to 16 countries (2009-11) ● Mongolia ● Tajikistan ● Macedonia ● Morocco ● Bhutan Barbados & ● Eastern Caribbean ● Egypt ● Mexico ● Senegal ● Djibouti ● Nicaragua ● Nigeria ● Indonesia ● Angola ● Malawi ● Chile

5. The dual purpose of country-led assessments • Strengthens the demand side of governance (an accountability mechanism) • Strengthens the supply side of governance (evidence base for national decision making)

6. What are “country-led assessments”? • Undertaken by a country on its own initiative • Can be initiated by government, civil society, research institutes • Range in focus (comprehensive or sectoral) • Active participation of state and non-state actors • Results feed into policy-making processes

7. How do Principles Apply to Assessments? • Accountability: Country-led assessments act as a critical accountability mechanism for governance performance to local stakeholders. • Participation: A broad and representative range of national actors have opportunities to input into key stages of the assessment process. • Transparency: National actors have unbiased access to information on the assessment process and the results of the assessment are made available to the public as a public good. • Legitimacy: National actors agree that the assessment process and its results are legitimate.

8. Establish a steering committee Identify key stakeholders Raisefunds Decide on how to collect data Select type of assessment Decide on who will do the research Key steps in conducting a country-led governance assessment Conduct multi-stakeholder dialogue on governance priorities Identify national institution or civil society organisation as ‘coordinator’ Decide on assessment framework Decide on sampling Decide on indicators Develop policy recommendations Implement policy reform or advocate for reform Institutionalize the assessment and repeat at regular intervals Conduct multi-stakeholder consultation Analyse results Disseminate results

9. Ten features of an effective country-led governance assessment • Alignment to national political priorities and processes • Assessment is country contextualized • Methodology is rigorous • Selection of indicators is transparent and participatory • Results are stored in a public national database • Indicators are pro-poor and gender-sensitive • Capacity of national stakeholders is developed • Cost-effective and timely • The results are widely communicated • The assessment is repeated UNESCO/Loock F.

10. Mongolia’s experience • Follow-up to ICNRD (2003): establish mechanism to monitor progress of democratic development • Requested support from UNDP • Adapted IDEA’s State of Democracy assessment framework • Led by national team of researchers; national consultations throughout • Quantitative sources: national survey; MP survey; expert survey; admin stats • Qualitative sources: focus groups discussions, ‘free dialogues’, narratives • Elicited views of 1200 citizens + + • Core (117) vs. satellite indicators (14) • Results presented & debated at national conference • Nat’l Plan of Action to Consolidate Democracy

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