Philippine Governance Indicators Survey Tools

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Philippine Governance Indicators Survey Tools

• National College of Public Administration and
  Governance
• University of the Philippines
• (UP-NCPAG)

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Preliminary Stages

1. Inventory survey of data and indicator sources or
   institutions engaged in providing governance
   indicators in the Philippines
2. Preparation of a Users Guide of these indicator
   sources
3. Survey of which indicators are used and not used
   by national decision makers in their work

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Consultation Workshops and Roundtable Discussions

• Stakeholders from
• the executive and administrative branches of the
  government
• the legislative branch
• civil society
• the academe and
• other public and private organizations involved
  in using and developing indicators

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Issues and Concerns

• From Roundtable Discussions
• There are too many efforts by different agencies
  to come up with governance indicators and
  monitoring polls but there are few attempts of
  assessing these tools
• No measure of objectivity of existing governance
  indicators
• Different agencies came up with their own
  measurement/indicator/gauge of governance (i.e.
  rule of law, anti-corruption, transparency)
• No integrated/harmonized monitoring system
  between different government agencies

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Issues and Concerns

• No institutionalized governance indicators
• What is governance indicators?
• Good Governance Indicators vs. Good Governance
  Outcomes
• Proliferation of indicators
• No agreement

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Project Component 1 Users Guide

• Conducted a mapping exercise of governance
  indicators sources in the Philippines by
  producing a Users Guide of Governance
  Indicators.

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• The preparation of the Guide is a joint effort
  between the National College of Public
  Administration and Governance (NCPAG) of the
  University of the Philippines, Diliman and the
  National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) of
  the Republic of the Philippines with assistance
  from the UNDP Oslo Governance Center.

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• The Guide presents and assembles, whenever
  available and allowable, data on the institutions
  generating possible governance indicators
  information, their location and contact numbers,
  how they generate data, how the indicators they
  use are determined and measured, and the
  frequency by which these are released.

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Format

• The Guide follows the format established by the
  United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
  the European Commission which released a similar
  publication in 2004 entitled Governance
  Indicators A Users Guide.

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Project Component 2 Survey of Governance
Indicators Users

• Respondents
• 50-150 policy/decision makers
• General Purpose
• To assess the extent to which governance
  indicators are being used
• To determine whether there are differences on how
  sources are applied at various levels of
  government

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Lessons Learned

• Many indicators are available but public
  awareness is low
• There is a need to inform the public of possible
  sources of indicators identified by the survey

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Next Steps

• Continue to build on the sources of indicators to
  be included in the Users Manual based on sources
  identified in the survey
• Assessing the existing capacities of national
  data collection agencies and statistical system

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Next Steps (contd)

• Designing a program to strengthen national
  capacities especially in the area of data
  collection focusing on national and local policy
  makers.
• Development of a composite index of governance
  indicators that can be picked up from existing
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