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 By Carlos Conde, programme coordinator. OECD-MENA Governance Programme
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?
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