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Title: Constructing indicators of progresswellbeing with citizenscommunities
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Constructing indicators of progress/well-being
with citizens/communities
- Dr Jonathan POTTER
- OECD Local Economic and Employment Development
Programme
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What is an indicator of progress?
- Key considerations
- Defining progress
- Agency deciding who to interact with
- Distinguishing progress monitoring and assessment
of results of actions to influence progress - Models of progress
- Objective v. subjective indicators
- Mixing top-down and bottom-up information
- Benchmarking
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Defining progress
- Peoples views vary
- relative importance of trust, safety,
distribution of income - right level of trust, safety, income
distribution - whether progress means participative democracy,
high cohesion, collective provision - or representative democracy, high incentives,
private provision - If we are seeking empowerment, should let local
people decide their own objectives and how to get
there - Suggests a decentralised approach handbook on
how to collect and use but not a prescription of
indicators to use
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Agency who to interact with
- Most citizens do not have the time or inclination
to engage more than superficially - Danger of capture by elites and interest groups
- Process of strategy design and delivery delegated
to local agencies - Suggests designing a handbook to be used
principally by local agencies local
governments, development agencies, NGOs
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Monitoring v. action assessment
- Two levels of progress indicator
- Monitoring What is the situation, what is
changing - Indicates where may need to intervene to improve
- Assessment What are the results of actions taken
to achieve progress - Indicates whether actions are working as intended
- Difficult to use monitoring for assessment of
actions - Suggests choice to be made on focus of the
Handbook, monitoring only or monitoring and
assessment?
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Models of progress
- Need some conceptual framework or theory of
change - These models are likely to vary by locality or
agency - FIELD approach . . .
- Suggests including indicators on influences of
policy actions on drivers of progress and on the
enablers of progress
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OUTPUT TRENDS IN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE
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POLICY ACTIONS ON DRIVERS
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Business incubators
Effective labour market functioning
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- Etc
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Support for higher education
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Objective v. subjective indicators
- Simple principle
- Measure what can quantitatively, but without
distorting the target - Measure the rest qualitatively, but with maximum
quality - Drivers Quantitative traditional statistics
- Enablers Qualitative local surveys, expert
polls - Policy results Quantitative and qualitative
evaluations - Suggests using many subjective indicators because
much of what we want to understand requires it
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Top-down bottom-up info
- NSO information not sufficiently spatially
disaggregated and not covering what local
agencies believe is important - Trento example
- Invest in knowledge and education (e.g. learning
over life course) - Internationalise research and innovation (e.g.
professors from outside Italy spend on
international research projects) - Maintain cohesive social model (e.g. cooperative
membership, women with key role in enterprises) - Suggests combining self-collected and external
information
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Benchmarking
- Useful to have the same indicators in each
locality to compare progress/well-being - But
- Difficulties if we dont compare like with like
- Local people/agencies may have different visions
of progress and how to achieve it - Suggests
- core set of indicators
- complementary tailoring to each area
- no composite indicator
- groupings of comparator areas with same
objectives and legacy
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