Projects
Monitoring Principles of Public Administration in Preserving Good Governance Values
The project focuses on establishing good governance standards in the local self-government units, by aligning the Principles of Public Administration, developed as benchmarks by SIGMA. Good governance standards are used by local civil society organisations for monitoring the work of local self-governments, drafting policy papers, opiening dialogue for presenting the research findings and proposing recommendations for improving the work of the municipalities.
Period 01.01.2017 - 31.12.2018
Donor: Delegation of the European Union in the frames of IPA Civil Society Facility and Media Programme 2015
Project beneficiary: Local civil society organizations and Local Self-Governments
Main goal:
Ensuring a functional network of CSOs across regions that will perform a monitoring and evaluation process of the LSGs in a standardized manner that will have a higher degree of effect over the administration in the LSGs and the central policies on a national level. LSGs should have their unique benchmark checklist of areas where they will need to focus for providing better services to its citizens, improving their transparency and effective governance.
Expected results:
- SIGMA’s principles of public administration and measurement indicators of good governance are streamlined and aligned on local level;
- Local CSO’s are competent in the field of good governance and SIGMA’s principles of public administration on national and local level, able to participate in policy dialog and to monitor public policies;
- Monitoring reports on implementation of streamlined SIGMA’s principles of public administration prepared based on profound and evidence based policy research;
- CSO’s are skilled to communicate, engage with and to advocate/influence decision makers to address the identified gaps on introducing the good governance model by LSGs, fostering transparent, accountable and service oriented public administration.
The project is funded by the European Union.
Project publications
Video
Providing access to disabled people in the municipalities
Do local self-governments provide physical accessibility to the buildings of the municipality and the information provided by the municipalities?
Transparency of the local self-governments
Do local self-governments publish the information which are required by the citizens? What is the web-transparency of the local self-governments?
Providing services by the local self-governments
How services are provided by the local self-governments. Can soe processes be imrpovred?
Public enterprises founded by local self-governments
What is the current situation of functioning of the public enterprises founded by local self-governments?
What is the size of the debt of the municipalities
Documentary film which shows the level of debt of the municipalities
Presented results of the last web transparency barometer of local self-governments
Results of the index of complying with the e-transparency standards by the local self-governments were presented on a public debate organized in Stip. Municipality of Stip is the most transparent web municipality.
Effectiveness of the one stop shop system
TV news article on a research conducted by the Center for Change Management within the project "Monitoring Principles of Public Administration in Preserving Good Governance Values", which focuses on quality of services provided by the the municipalities.
