Make It Official: The Case for In-Country Performance Measurement and Management
This is the third in a series of posts exploring the three international models of justice system performance measurement and management: (1) the EU Justice Scoreboard , (2) the Global Measures of Court Performance , and (3) the CourTools . Law and justice scholars lament the spotty evidence linking rule of law and justice programs with development outcomes like economic growth, human rights, sound governance, and poverty reduction. A key cause of the evidence gap is the lack of emphasis on building in-country or domestic performance measurement and management in favor of third-party evaluations. All three international models, more or less, promote increased attention and investment in performance measurement and management – the regular and continuous monitoring, analysis, and use of performance information -- by justice officials and their institutions and justice systems themselves, not by third parties . Capacity for performance measurement is the ability of count...