Case Study Category: ELoGE
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The “ELoGE Italia” Programme is based on a partnership between the Council of Europe and AICCRE, which is responsible for activating the ELoGE programme involving numerous municipalities throughout the country.
The ELoGE Italy 2022 Programme is part of the activities of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Europe (November 2021 – May 2022).
With the support of the Centre of Expertise for Good Governance of the Council of Europe, AICCRE is committed to implementing ELoGE in a congruent number of municipalities within a given timeframe. This means first identifying the municipalities that wish to implement ELoGE and then helping them to undertake the different steps of the programme.
After a careful and thorough analysis of the data collected, conducted by a specially composed National Evaluation Platform, AICCRE will award ELoGE to the municipalities that have successfully completed the entire programme.
But far from being the end of a process, ELoGE is above all a tool for municipalities to understand their own strengths and weaknesses in a self-assessment exercise by participating local governments against the matrix (Benchmark) of the 12 Principles of Good Democratic Governance of the Council of Europe.
This self-assessment will be backed up by data collected from citizens, administrative staff and elected representatives of the participating municipalities, through questionnaires and structured listening sessions. The Label will finally be awarded to the municipalities that most closely reflect the 12 Principles in their work, during a Final Award Ceremony. The ELoGE Italia Programme aims to pursue the following objectives:
- To improve and enhance Good Democratic Governance at local level.
- To foster the democratic participation of citizens in the public life of their municipality.
- To understand the strengths and weaknesses of local government decision-making and delivery of public services.
- To strengthen the principle of subsidiarity by giving more autonomy to local and regional governments in implementing national and European policies.
- To disseminate and make use of the good practices of other local communities identified during the evaluation process for the ELoGE Italy award.
Each municipality participating in the programme compiles the Self-assessment Matrix/Benchmark against the indicators of the 12 Principles of Good Governance and provides evidence/examples regarding the “justification” of the score.
In addition to the compilation of the Benchmark, the municipalities distributed the questionnaires to citizens, elected representatives and municipal employees. During this phase the municipalities were supported by ISIG researchers who collected and analysed the final data using a digital platform Survey Monkey. The evaluation methodology is composed as follows:
Benchmark:
- Self-assessment on a scale from 0 to 4 (where 0 - don't know/not applicable; 1 minimum, 4 maximum) on each indicator.
- List of evidence - for each principle an evidence/evidence is required that 'justifies' the self-assigned score.
- Questionnaires (citizens, elected representatives, municipal employees).
- Questions related to the 12 Principles (i.e. one question per principle, perception of the extent to which the municipality's work reflects a particular principle, on a scale of 1-4).
- Data on socio-economic profile and COVID-19 are contextual, not part of the evaluation.
At the end of the process the final data were transmitted to the National Evaluation Platform, a committee of experts, selected by AICCRE, in charge of evaluating the final results and deciding on the list of municipalities to be awarded the ELoGE.
The "ELoGE Italia" Programme involved three target groups for each of the municipalities involved:
- Citizens.
- Elected representatives.
- Municipal employees.
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