Partnership Governance Index (Indonesia)

The Partnership Governance Index has the overall objectives to
• provide a comprehensive and methodologically sound assessment of governance performance in all Indonesia provinces;
• rank governance performance in all Indonesian provinces based on separate assessments in 4 “areas of governance”: government, bureaucracy, civil society and
economic society;
• provide an evidence base to the local governments, the communities and other relevant stakeholders (including the central government) to help inform governance policies and capacity development programmes at the local level

For a general overview of the initiative, view the Overview Presentation of the Partnership Governance Index, presented at the World Bank, Jakarta, 10 Feb 2010)

Information is mainly quantitative. It is made up of both subjective and objective data. Subjective data is obtained through structured interviews of well-informed persons (guidelines for interview supplied in the methodology package), which fall into two groups: those who are the very actors of the governance processes assessed (representatives from government, bureaucracy, economic society and civil society) and those who are not direct actors but have some interaction with them, or are concerned with the quality of governance (academics and journalists). Objective data consists of statistical data, budgetary data, local development plan, local  legislation programme, websites, records of coordination meeting, audits, human development index, etc. More specifically, for the government area, data is collected from the provincial secretariat and the provincial parliament. For the bureaucracy area, data is collected from the local health, education, social affairs and revenue collection offices, the local planning agency, the local anti-corruption office, the local statistics office, etc.

The Index is organised into 4 areas, 8 functions, 6 principles and 75 indicators. Table 10 presents the distribution of indicators according to the different areas and functions. The number of indicators varies from for each function, as only those good governance principles which are most relevant to the function assessed have been translated into indicators.

Gender focus is minimal. Within the area “government”, an indicator assesses the level of women’s political participation in the provincial parliament by measuring the proportion of female parliamentarians.

While the overall aim of the assessment framework is to measure the quality and fairness of policy formulation and policy implementation processes (as a proxy of quality and equitable development outcomes), indicators do not have an explicit pro-poor dimension.

Example of one indicator for one of the 6 principles, with reference to the area and function it aims to assess

PRINCIPLE: Participation

INDICATOR: Level of the community’s monitoring of the implementation of government project tenders

AREA: Civil Society

FUNCTION: Advocacy
 

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