This document outlines indicators and data sources for monitoring progress on decentralization reforms in Ukraine. It discusses several challenges, including the need to establish standards and baselines for some new indicators, improve government data collection, and introduce indicators into existing surveys. Monitoring will occur at both the impact and effectiveness levels across six components of decentralization. Data will be collected regularly from various government and project sources and updated by the Donor Secretariat in coordination with other bodies to synchronize monitoring efforts. Automating data collection and visualization is being explored.

1. 1
Donors Board/ Minregion
Common Results Framework: Monitoring outcome indicators (Selected examples)
Indicators by components Data
source
2016 2017 2018 2019 Target Current status/
Comments
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
1. Territorial organization of government and decentralization legal basis
Number of voluntarily formed
amalgamated hromadas
Minregion
Geoportal
---
Percentage of coverage of the territory by
“capable hromadas” with democratically
elected councils (in line with the
Government prospective plan)
ULEAD/
Geoportal
N/A 100% “Capable hromada” to
be defined and baseline
to be established by
ULEAD in 2017
2. Finance and budgeting of local authorities (Financial base of local self-government)
Ratio of LSG’s own tax revenues (without
transfers) to gross domestic product of
the country
EDGE/
Treasury
reports
5,8% Positive
growth
---
Number of local budgets that receive
basic subvention EDGE/
ULEAD/
STSU
Local
Budget
Implemen
tation
Reports
738
from
998
Stable
reduction
---
Share of development (capital)
expenditures in local budget expenditures
15% 3,9% 11,9% ----
Share of local budgets in the consolidated
budget of the country
47,5% 58% 19,4% The target is set with
consideration of the
Health reform effect.
3. Transparency, Accountability and Public Engagement
Communities democracy index Citizens in
Action/
DOBRE
N/A Positive
growth
Baseline to be
established in 2017.
Corruption perception index ULEAD N/A Stable
reduction
Baseline to be
established in 2017.
4. Regional and Local Development

2. 2
Regional Competitiveness Index (from
2018)
Minregion N/A Positive
growth
Human Development Index by regions
Minregion N/A Positive
growth
To be monitored by
regions from 2018
5. Public Service Provision: Ex. 5.2 Housing and public utilities
Access to services and coverage (urban
and rural) - % from total population
- Сentral water supply (rural)
- Сentral water supply (urban)
Minregion
/National
Report on
Drinking
Water
17,2 20 (2020)
89,8 90 (2020)
Quality of services - Level of satisfaction
among urban and rural population
- Water supply (rural)
- Water supply (urban)
NRC
quarterly
survey
N/A
Positive
dynamic
N/A The indicator will be
introduced in the NRC
e-survey from the last
quarter of 2017
5. Public Service Provision: Ex. 5.3/5.4 Health and Education
Global Competativeness index: Health and
Primary Education pillar - Rank/ Score
World
Economic
Forum
rating
54/
5.95
Positive
dynamic
Rank should be
decreasing and score
increasing
6. Communication, Training systems and Knowledge Management (WG 6.1 Reform Management and Coordination)
The level of trust of the population in the
local authorities
NRC
quarterly
survey
Stable
growth
The indicators will be
introduced in the NRC
e-survey from the last
quarter of 2017
The level of trust of the population in the
decentralization process
6. Communication, Training systems and Knowledge Management (WG 6.2 LSG Training System)
Share of amalgamated communities (by
regions) where staff is training in all key
areas (based on the listestablished by
Minregion)
National
Reform
Office/
ULEAD
100% Baseline to be
established based on
the Minregion list and
inventory of Regional
Offices
Availability of the LSG Training Concept/
Startegy approved by Minregion
Minregion No Yes

3. 3
CRF Monitoring: Model and Challenges
- Monitoring at two levels – impact and effectiveness
- For each of these two levels WGs elaborated indicators, sources and frequency of data collection
- Sources of information vary – government statistics, projects, surveys
- A mix of quantitative and qualitative indictors
- To be able to track some quantitative indicators, there is an urgent need to: introduce standards (e.g. Number of “capable hromada”/ Share of
amalgamated communities with staff is training in “key areas”), start tracking and define baseline (e.g. Human Development index by regions to
be introduced/ Regions Competiveness Index that is just introduced), improve government statistics collection process (e.g. coverage of rural
population with water supply and sanitation). They are included in the M&E as they are important but they will be tracked at a later stage
- For some indicators the data of 2016 is not valid and needs to be reset in the context of upcoming reforms, as measurement parameters are
changing (e.g. Share of development expenditures in local budget expenditures/ Share of local budgets in the consolidated budget of the
country)
- To be able to track some qualitative indicators there is need to: introduce those indicators into existing surveys and unify M&E approaches of
projects measuring them (e.g. level of citizen satisfaction with services). Setting baseline across the country for some indicators is not possible
at this stage – thus progressive increase will be monitored where these indictors are measured. Meanwhile for some indictors, global measures
can be used (e.g. Global competativeness index: Rank/ Score for Health and Primary Education pillar)
- Some indicators are good and illustrative but are limited to the coverage of area of certain projects (e.g. Community Democracy Index of
DOBRE)
- Indicators will be collected by the Donor Secretariat in coordination from indicated sources with the EU Office and the National Reform Office
(where the monitored reform performance indicators overlap) and updated on regular basis. Synchronization between CRF M&E, ULEAD/ NOR
impact indicators and EU reform monitoring system will be crucial
- Possibilities of automated system of CRF M&E data collection and visualization of the reform performance progress on the Geoportal are being
explored