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Monitoring Implementation: Strategy and Program for Good Governance and Prevention and Countering Corruption (2006-2008). Alexander Stoyanov Center for the Study of Democracy Sofia, Bulgaria www.csd.bg. Goals of the System of Indicators.
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Monitoring Implementation:Strategy and Program for Good Governanceand Prevention and Countering Corruption (2006-2008) Alexander Stoyanov Center for the Study of Democracy Sofia, Bulgaria www.csd.bg
Goals of the System of Indicators • To monitor implementation of the specific measures envisioned in the Program; • To monitors progress in achieving the specific goals of the Strategy; • To assess the impact of the Strategy and the Program on the level of corruption; • To assess the overall sustainability of the Strategy and the relevance of the measures of the Program to the good governance.
Principles of the System of Indicators • To use methods and indicators that have already been nationally and internationally verified and have proven effective; • To address key problem areas identified in the Strategy; • To use different sources of information and methods of assessment; • To enable regular monitoring of changes in the spread of corruption; • To ensure comparability of the information on Bulgaria with that on the other European countries; • To help assemble an extensive collection of information with the results of assessments and the conducted monitoring.
Research Methods • Expert opinions (assessments and analyses by independent experts and representatives of non-governmental organizations); • Self-assessment by the institutions and agencies involved in the implementation of the Strategy and Program; • Analysis of data from official statistical surveys, agency information systems, national and international surveys; • National representative surveys of the population and the business community; • Surveys of the users of administrative, social, health and education services (Service Delivery Survey ) • Mystery Customer Surveys for various services; • Monthly monitoring of publications in the press, radio and television.
I. Indicators for assessment of the implementation progress of the specific measures laid down in the Program • Availability of elaborated laws, programs, analyses, research methodologies, proposals, plans, publicly announced measures, etc; • Relevance of the measure adopted; • Timeframe compliance or non-compliance; • Implementation progress; • Quality of the elaborated laws, programs, analyses, research methodologies, proposals, plans, measures and etc. • Quantitative indicatorsmeasuring the outcomes of the adopted measure; • Effectiveness of the measure adopted .
II. Level of Achievement of Strategy Objectives Main priorities of corruption monitoring system(CMS) : • Successfully working monitoring system, recognized as best practice national system for measuring administrative corruption levels; • The availability of extensive database of indicators allowing to track the evolution over time; • Coherent with the victimization approach to measuring corruption of the United Nations.
Main CMS Indicators • Corruption victimization; • Corruption pressure; • Public attitudes towards corruption; • Spread of corruption; • Intolerance of corruption; • Factors of corruption; • Government anticorruption activities; • Access to information.
III. Assessment of the Public Services Delivery • Number of documents required for delivery of the respective administrative service; • Time spent on filling in documents; • Availability of instructions for submitting the documents needed to initiate the administrative procedures; • Total duration of the procedure from submitting the documents to the final decision; • Staff quality and competence; • Service quality.
Average monthly number of corruption transactions (2001-2007) Source: Vitosha Research
Dynamic of indexes of the level of corruption June 1998 - January 2007 Source: Vitosha Research
Dynamics of the indexes of the level of corruption for the business sector (October 2000 - January 2007) Source: Vitosha Research
Prerequisites for the existence of corruption (min=0, max=10) Source: Vitosha Research
Average monthly number of corruption-related items in the media Source: Vitosha Research