• Using indicators for policy making

Using indicators for policy making

This guide focuses on the monitoring and evaluation side of the right to information programmes, paying particular attention to the use of appropriate indicators, including gender and pro-poor indicators.

It complements the UNDP Practical Guidance Note on Right to Information developed in 2003 in recognition of the growing demand for guidance in this area to provide a toolkit of methods and approaches for designing and implementing right to information.
The guide outlines:

• key considerations for understanding the baseline situation for monitoring right to information programmes;
• the importance of establishing clear and specific right to information programme outcomes;
• guiding principles for selecting right to information indicators including providing example indicators programmes; and
• key considerations for making right to information indicators pro-poor and gender sensitive.

The guide also describes four broad areas of right to information that must be considered in any context for a thorough evaluation. These are:

• the legal regime for the right to information;
• the implementation of right to information legislation by government;
• the use of right to information by the general public and civil society;
• the use of right to information by marginalized group.

It then suggests questions for each area, and derives from these typical baseline assessment features, outputs and outcomes.

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