OECD Public Governance Reviews Engaging Citizens in Jordan's Local Government Needs Assessment Process
Jordan is undertaking ambitious decentralization reforms to place citizens at the heart of local policies and services. This review analyses the main gaps in the current needs assessment process, which aims to mainstream a participatory approach for the design of local development plans and budgetar...
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OECD Publishing
2020.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Executive Summary
- Good governance enablers in the needs assessment process
- The role of public communication in supporting the needs assessment process at the sub-national level in Jordan
- Stakeholder participation in the needs assessment process
- Assessment and Recommendations
- The Decentralization Reform in Jordan
- Key Economic, Social and Political factors shaping Decentralization in Jordan
- The rollout of the Decentralization Reform in Jordan (2015 - 2020)
- Main OECD survey findings
- Good Governance Enablers in the Needs Assessment Process
- Clarifying the overall structure and organization of the Needs Assessment Process
- Ensuring greater multi-level coordination and transfer of information via the Needs Assessment process
- Fostering an effective strategic planning cycle in the needs assessment process
- Strengthening the capacities and skills of public servants to conduct stakeholder participation activities in the needs assessment process
- Ensuring the continuity of participation initiatives through dedicated financial resources
- The role of public communication in supporting the needs assessment process at the subnational level in Jordan
- Establishing a more strategic communication approach for local governments
- Strengthening implementation efforts around the Access to Information (ATI) right at the subnational level
- Promoting the proactive disclosure of relevant, clear and timely information on the process and results of collecting needs
- Developing a more sophisticated use of communication channels according to the needs and preferences of different audiences
- Stakeholder Participation in the Needs Assessment Process
- Promoting stakeholder participation throughout the needs assessment process.
- Enhancing opportunities for consultation and engagement at the local level
- Building mechanisms to support stakeholder participation at the local level
- Chapter 1. Decentralization in Jordan: Context and background
- Introduction
- Open Government as a key lever supporting decentralization in Jordan
- The Political Landscape in Jordan
- Contextualizing Decentralization - Key Economic, Social and Political factors shaping the Jordanian approach
- Addressing stagnant economic growth, high-income disparities and unemployment across Jordan
- Combatting growing perceptions of corruption
- Engaging a young and unevenly distributed population in Jordan
- Addressing population shifts: Refugees and emigration
- The Decentralization Reform in Jordan
- The 2015 Decentralization Laws
- The rollout of the Decentralization Reform in Jordan (2017 - 2020)
- Methodology of this report
- References
- Notes
- Chapter 2. Good governance enablers in the Needs Assessment Process
- Fostering good governance enablers at the local level in Jordan
- Clarifying the overall structure and organization of the Needs Assessment Process
- Ensuring greater multi-level coordination and transfer of information via the Needs Assessment process
- Fostering an effective strategic planning cycle in the Needs Assessment process
- Strengthening the capacities and skills of public servants to conduct stakeholder participation activities in the needs assessment process
- Ensuring the continuity of participation initiatives through dedicated financial resources
- Recommendations
- Clarifying the overall structure and organization of the needs assessment process
- Ensuring greater multi-level coordination &
- transfer of information via the needs assessment process
- Fostering an effective strategic planning cycle in the needs assessment process.
- Strengthening the capacities and skills of public servants to conduct stakeholder participation activities in the needs assessment process
- Ensuring the continuity of participation initiatives through dedicated financial resources
- References
- Notes
- Chapter 3. The role of public communication in supporting the needs assessment process at the subnational level in Jordan
- Public communication as a key lever of effective reforms
- Fostering communication with citizens in the needs assessment process in Jordan through a two-way communication
- Establishing a more strategic communication approach for local governments
- Strengthening implementation efforts around the Access to Information (ATI) right at the subnational level
- Promoting the proactive disclosure of relevant, clear and timely information on the process and results of collecting needs
- Developing a more sophisticated use of communication channels according to the needs and preferences of different audiences
- Recommendations
- References
- Chapter 4. Stakeholder Participation in the Needs Assessment Process
- Embedding stakeholder participation at the local level in Jordan
- Promoting stakeholder participation throughout the needs assessment process
- Enhancing opportunities for consultation and engagement at the local level
- Building mechanisms to support stakeholder participation at the local level
- Recommendations
- References
- Note.
