Assessment of the Status of Performance Measurement of Lithuanian Municipalities

Abstract

This article discusses the evaluation of the status of performance measurement in Lithuanian municipalities.
The evaluation is based on the analysis of legal documents regulating practices of performance measurement, the
content analysis of documents of strategic planning of municipalities, and a survey of heads of divisions, heads
and deputy heads of municipal administrations. The survey was conducted with the reference to the criteria of the
Municipal Performance Measurement Model that was created following the widely known Common Assessment
Framework. In the first part of the article the Municipal Performance Measurement Models are presented. In the
second part the results of the analysis of legal documents are dealt with. The third part summarizes the results of
the analysis of strategic planning documents. The fourth part presents the results of the survey.