Measuring

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Measuring Assessing Democratic
GovernancePro-poor gender-sensitive indicators

• Lorraine Corner

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Pro-poor gender-sensitive indicators

• Aim of the guide
• Why pro-poor gender-sensitive?
• Framework for selection
• Underlying values principles
• Gender-sensitive indicators
• Pro-poor (gender-sensitive) indicators
• Tools for identifying indicators
• Applications

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GOVERNANCE areas

• Parliamentary Development
• Electoral Systems
• Human Rights
• Justice
• Access to Information the Media
• Decentralisation Local Governance
• Public Administration Reform Anti-corruption

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Why pro-poor gender-sensitive GOVERNANCE
indicators?

• Form groups to answer the question why should
  governance indicators be pro-poor
  gender-sensitive?
• Select facilitator
• Select reporter
• Prepare flip chart for sharing
• Time 15 minutes

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Framework for selecting pro-poor
gender-sensitive indicators to measure democratic
governance

• AIM to assist policy-makers to monitor
  evaluate democratic governance at country level
• Existing indicators
• developed by external stakeholders
• to compare rank countries
• Not designed to assist countries
• Not pro-poor or gender-sensitive

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Based on normative values

• Citizens control public decision-making
  decision-makers
• Citizens should be equal in exercising such
  control
• Women/men
• Poor/non-poor
• Normative values of democratic governance
• Participation
• Representation
• Accountability
• Transparency
• Responsiveness
• Efficiency
• Equity

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Three levels of indicators

• Start from objectives what is to be indicated?
• Outcome
• what do we want to achieve?
• How will we know we have achieved it?
• Process
• What do we have to do in order to achieve it?
• How will we know that we are doing it?
• Inputs
• What is needed to create these processes?
• How will we know they are available?

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What would gender-sensitive GOVERNANCE indicators
look like?

• Form groups to answer this question
• Select facilitator
• Select reporter
• Prepare flip chart for sharing
• Time 10 minutes

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Gender-sensitive indicators

• Disaggregated by sex
• Specific to or targeted toward female or male sex
• Implicitly gendered
• No reference to sex BUT
• Of particular relevance to females or males
• Chosen by women
• Why not men?
• Participation of women
• Based on data defined, collected, presented
  disseminated taking into account differences
  between women men
• Women decision makers
• Women enumerators, processors, etc

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Group review

• Return to group flip chart for
• Compare your output with the framework for
  gender-sensitive indicators
• Prepare new flip chart
• Differences?
• Similarities?
• Comments?

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What would pro-poor GOVERNANCE indicators look
like?

• Form groups to answer this question
• Select facilitator
• Select reporter
• Prepare flip chart for sharing
• Time 10 minutes

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Pro-poor indicators

• Disaggregated by poverty status
• Specific to or targeted toward the poor
• Implicitly pro-poor more relevant or important
  to low income groups
• Chosen by the poor
• Participatory
• Gender-sensitive take into account different
  impact of poverty on women men

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Group review

• Return to your previous flip chart
• Compare your output with the framework for
  pro-poor indicators
• Prepare new flip chart
• Differences?
• Similarities?
• Comments?

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Pro-poor indicators must also be gender-sensitive
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Other dimensions of disaggregation

• Democratic values require BROAD participation
• Ethnicity female/male poor/non-poor
• Location rural / urban female/male etc
• Disability etc etc
• A major challenge for monitoring evaluating
  democratic governance

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Some tools for selecting indicators

• Process flow chart framework for developing
  questions about specific governance processes
• Key questions for each stage in the process,
  how do women/the poor/ etc participate, how are
  they affected?
• Integrated indicator matrix summarizes
  classifies available indicators, shows gaps

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Using indicators

• Exploring relationships between indicators for
  policy analysis
• Linking input and output indicators to assess the
  effectiveness of interventions
• Eg training for women candidates
• What of those trained stood for election?
• What of those who stood were successful?
• Did a higher of women MPs lead to greater
  consideration of womens issues?

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GOVERNANCE areas

• Parliamentary Development
• Electoral Systems
• Human Rights
• Justice
• Access to Information the Media
• Decentralisation Local Governance
• Public Administration Reform Anti-corruption

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Based on normative values

• Citizens control public decision-making
  decision-makers
• Citizens should be equal in exercising such
  control
• Women/men
• Poor/non-poor
• Normative values of democratic governance
• Participation
• Representation
• Accountability
• Transparency
• Responsiveness
• Efficiency
• Equity

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Applying the framework Budgeting

• In groups, prepare process flow chart for one
  UNDP governance area
• Formulate key questions in terms of elements of
  democratic governance
• Use questions to identify potential pro-poor and
  gender-sensitive indicators prepare matrix
• Prepare flip charts for sharing
• Time 45 minutes