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By Carlos Conde, programme coordinator. OECD-MENA Governance Programme. Developing Tools for Measuring Performance, the GfD Contribution Working Group on E Government and Administrative Simplification IV Regional Meeting Tunis, 29 May 2008. MEASURING PUBLIC GOVERNANCE, WHY?.
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By Carlos Conde, programme coordinator. OECD-MENA Governance Programme Developing Tools for Measuring Performance, the GfD ContributionWorking Group on E Government and Administrative SimplificationIV Regional MeetingTunis, 29 May 2008
MEASURING PUBLIC GOVERNANCE, WHY? • Appropriate information reinforces government capacities • Helps decision making • Builds evaluation capacities • Appropriate information is a tool for gaining support to reform • Visibility in front of international stakeholders • Visibility in front of internal stakeholders • Appropriate information enriches regional dialogue • Lesson-learning and identification of good practices among Arab and OECD countries • Toolkit approach : what is available?
THE GfD APPROACH, CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS • Co-ownership • Bottom-up approach : answering to policy makers demand • A tool oriented to action (not to make judgements) • Method and strategy • Jointly defined • Integrated in the Programme of Work • Output • Periodical reviews + specialised publications • Some numbers + Qualitative (i. e. institutional frameworks) + Background information (i.e. country factsheets)
INDICATING DIRECTION, YOUR INPUT • What information and data are you already collecting? • What are your needs in terms of collecting data and information for better policy-making? • How can the GfD Initiative contribute to improve these data collection efforts?