In this video of the series, Developing Governance Indicators in Justice and Safety: A Country-Led Approach, Selen Siringil Perker explains the challenges of integrating indicators into institutional culture of courts, and demonstrates possible strategies to overcome these challenges drawing on the experience of Ethiopia’s judiciary, which has developed and implemented an innovative set of judicial performance measures.
In the first part of this set of two videos, we reviewed some approaches to integrating indicators into the institutional culture of justice and safety agencies that require closer interaction and coordination among staff, such as prosecution and police. In loosely-coupled justice institutions, such as courts, where departmental units operate without much coordination and the staff has more autonomy, institutionalizing indicators may have other implications, and call for different strategies. Creating a sustainable mechanism for collaboration towards shared goals is particularly challenging in courts because of independence and autonomy of judges, and frequent leadership transitions.
- To learn more about the new judicial performance evaluation system in Ethiopia, read the interview series The Evolution of Judicial Performance Evaluation in Ethiopia.
- To learn more about the strategies employed to integrate indicators into the institutional culture of the police in Bangladesh, and the prosecution in Nigeria, watch the video, Integrating Justice and Safety Indicators into Institutional Culture – Part 1: Experiences in Bangladesh and Nigeria.
- Watch more videos in Developing Governance Indicators in Justice and Safety: A Country-Led Approach video series.