The document discusses tools used by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development to evaluate public investments and the performance of local administrations. It describes the DPS Explorer interactive tool, which allows users to explore and compare multiple indicators of local administration performance over time. It also describes VISTO, an interactive visualization tool that uses predictive models to provide benchmarks, early warnings, and assessments of project length estimates in a transparent way to institutions and citizens. The goals are to reward regions that achieve targets for essential public services and to measure the efficiency of local administrations.

1. Public investments evaluation and verification unit
WHAT HAPPENS IN TERRITORIES?
EXPLORE HOW YOUR LOCAL
ADMINISTRATION IS PERFORMING
Italian Ministry of Economic Development
Department for Development and Economic Cohesion (DPS)
Public investments evaluation and verification unit
CARLO AMATI – SIMONA DE LUCA

2. Public investments evaluation and verification unit
Overview
What happens in territories? Explore how your local administration is performingWhat happens in territories? Explore how your local administration is performing
Well-being of citizens is also influenced by the performance of public
administrations in providing essential services and by the availability of
infrastructures.
Availability of essential services and infrastructures has a direct impact on
the living conditions of citizens of different areas of a country: regional
policy is the instrument aimed at reducing the economic gap of the less-
developed territories, which can help more in general to increase the
standard of living conditions.
The Italian regional policy for 2007-2013 also envisages:
a performance-based mechanism that rewards the achievement of
quantitative targets (policy outcomes);
innovative tools to explore how local administrations are performing
and to measure their efficiency;
intensive use of web-based applications whereby the user can
produce contents, give direct feedback, be a member of a network.

3. Public investments evaluation and verification unit
Targets set at minimum standard
Targets equal for all Regions
Sub-regional performance assessment
The governance role of DPS
 3 Billion euros
 8 Regions involved
 4 Themes
 Education
 Child and elderly care
 Water service
 Urban waste
 11 Indicators
Measurable objectives for public services provisionMeasurable objectives for public services provision
Target outcomes for Southern regions

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Among its main features:
interactive exploration
of multiple indicators
time animation
stories: users can
contribute with their own
narratives and analyses
integration with user data
An interactive tool to explore data
DPS eXplorer: Italian customization of OECD eXplorerDPS eXplorer: Italian customization of OECD eXplorer
Makes it possible to analyze and compare the
performance of local administrations on the
themes linked to the incentive mechanism

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An interactive operational tool
Interactive tool – VISTO: Interactive Visualisation of Project Length EstimatesInteractive tool – VISTO: Interactive Visualisation of Project Length Estimates
Can be used for:
benchmarking
early-warning
assessment
VISTO is:
a simple interface of complex data based on predictive models
transparent to institutions and citizens
a universal tool for “clinical diagnosis”

6. Public investments evaluation and verification unit
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Carlo Amati – Simona De Luca
Public investments evaluation and verification unit
Department for Development and Economic Cohesion
Ministry of Economic Development
Via Sicilia 162
00187 Rome – Italy
web: www.dps.tesoro.it
email: carlo.amati@tesoro.it
simona.deluca@tesoro.it