Civic Engagement in Local Governance (CELoG)

Date: 01-10-2014 - 01-09-2019

Status: Completed

Funder: USAID

Impact area: Civic Engagement Local Governance

Project Objectives

The Civic Engagement in Local Governance (CELoG) Program is a USAID funded five-year activity, aimed at increasing civic engagement in decentralization and local self-government reform. It provides citizens with reliable information and strengthens civil society’s capacity to promote effective, accountable and participatory local governance.

The Program is implemented by a Consortium of local organizations led by the Communities Finance Officers Association (CFOA) in cooperation with the partner organizations: ISTDC, YPC, AJC, EPF, and CRRC-Armenia.

CRRC-Armenia contributes to the program by providing evidence-based methodological and practical support. To meet that end, CRRC-Armenia has undertaken a countrywide household survey of civic engagement – the CELoG Index, aimed at exploring the current situation and identifying ways of improving the civic engagement in local self-governance in Armenia by understanding and measuring it.

Research Design

CELoG Index implements a standardized questionnaire based on aggregate set of indicators for a quantitative assessment of the civic engagement in local self-government. It is developed in partnership with other members of the CELoG Consortium, implementing a methodology produced by the CRRC-Armenia.In the frames of that process, a countrywide survey covering 1,500 respondents is implemented by CRRC-Armenia and the results are widely disseminated.

Presentation Community leaders' survey database Household survey questionnaire Factors of Trust Towards the Local Governance Bodies in Armenia. Working Paper Community leaders' survey database Household survey database Final Outputs 2019 - Evaluation Summary Final Outputs 2019 - Qualitative Report - Summary Final Outputs 2019 - Quantitative Report - Summary