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The European Label of Governance Excellence (hereafter ELoGE) benchmark in Latvia was implemented for the first time (from mid-2022 to mid-2023) and was managed by the Centre for Public Policy – PROVIDUS (hereafter PROVIDUS), an accredited organization to award the ELoGE label in Latvia.
The implementation process started in the spring of 2022 and ended in May 2023 with the awarding ceremony as one of the official events of Latvia’s Presidency within the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
The aim of implementing ELoGE in Latvia was twofold:
- To identify and certify municipalities, which achieve a certain standard of governance according to the 12 European Principles of Good Democratic Governance;
- To promote good governance standards in municipal governance.
Implementation of ELoGE benchmark in Latvia (2022-2023)
- 2022:
o Adaptation of the methodology in Latvia;
o Training for the municipalities;
o Self-assessment of the municipalities performance against good governance principles;
o Surveys. - 2023:
o Analyses of the results of the self-assessment, and review of the evidence.
o Advisory Committee meeting on the results.
o An international Conference on Good
o Local Governance;
o Awarding the ELoGE label.
- Municipal residents.
- The employees
- The elected members of the municipal councils.
The activities for implementing the ELoGE program included the following steps:
- Training for local experts.
- Adaptation of the benchmark.
- Launch of the ELoGE benchmark.
- Monthly meetings with the municipalities.
- Preparing questionnaires for the surveys, and surveying
- Meetings with the Advisory Committee
- The assessment process.
- Announcement of the results.
- The self-assessment process is a time-consuming process and should be done as a team-based work where experts from different municipal areas are present.
To ensure good results and a valuable process, it is of high importance that the highest public officials of the municipality are involved in the project. The value of the self-assessment process will be higher in the municipalities where the head of the municipal administration and/or the Mayor is involved in it and where the Council of the municipality is aware of it and are ready to use the results for the improvements. - The self-assessment process disclosed the areas where improvements are needed and some of the municipalities have managed to work on these improvements already during the selfassessment process or to plan them in the nearest future.
- To raise awareness about good governance principles amongst participating municipalities it is very important to train the municipalities on the methodology, prior they start to do the
self-evaluation activities (for example - more deeply explain what can be the evidence; how to evaluate the implementation of the indicators, etc). - The results of ELoGE should be shared with and analyzed by the governmental institutions which should take steps to support the municipalities in developing their capacities, especially regarding their weakest points. The implementation of ELoGE disclosed the need for a bigger project with the Council of Europe where the scope of the municipalities covers a larger number of the municipalities to diagnose the overall situation in Latvia and to address the needs of the municipalities in strengthening their work according to the good governance principles, especially after the implementation of the administrative-territorial reform is finished.
- Bauska Municipality;
- Cesis Municipality;
- Jelgava Municipality
- Liepāja State City;
- Valmiera Municipality.