The Woreda and City Benchmarking Survey (WCBS) was designed initially as a core monitoring and evaluation tool for the Public Sector Capacity Building Program (PSCAP). But the application of the survey has now expanded to include several reforms and donor supported operations. The survey provides a systematic, empirical and representative assessment of:
- the capacity of local government administrations in terms of management of their financial and human resources;
- involvement of participation of local communities in local government planning, budgeting and review processes; and
- performance for some selected public services.
The survey consists out of several different empirical instruments:
- i) Supply-side - a quantitative questionnaire, which addresses local jurisdictions,
- ii) Demand-side - a quantitative questionnaire based citizen report card (CRC); qualitative Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with selected citizens; and semi-structured Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with selected representatives of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).
The selection of jurisdictions and households was based on a multi-stage stratified sampling procedure, based on remoteness and food-security as key stratification criteria. Within regions, jurisdictions were selected in proportion to population size, where size is the data of the national census.
The first round of WCBS was conducted in 2005 and covering 48 woredas and 32 municipalities. The second round was conducted in 2008 covering 239 woredas and 52 municipalities while the third round covered 315 woredas and 69 municipalities and city governments. So, after WCBS III there are roughly remaining 100 jurisdictions in the country that have not been incorporated in any round of the WCBS.
The five reports below are related to the third WCBS that was conducted in 2010 compromising 384 jurisdictions, of which 315 are woredas, 69 city governments of which 20 are municipalities, as well as 10,667 households, 70 Focus Group Discussions (FGD), and 175 Key Informant Interviews (KII) with selected CSO representatives. Each of the documents summarizes findings of the different instruments of WCBS III, namely the supply-side survey, the Citizen Report Card (CRC), Focus Group Discussions (FGD), and Key Informant Interviews (KII). In doing so, areas such as institutional capacity (local government finance, tax administration, IT and technical support, human resources), service provision and perceptions (extension services, solid waste, health), as well as accountability and participation (public information and empowerment, council work and accountability) are covered in the reports.
Woreda and City Benchmarking Survey III Reports:
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