Donor Approaches to Governance Assessments 2009 Sourcebook

The Sourcebook from the OECD is intended to help its agency staff, partner country stakeholders and practitioners in their work and in dialogue about governance assessments in which aid agencies are actively involved. It has been compiled for a general audience and does not require specialist knowledge

The Sourcebook is divided in two parts:

• Part I is structured according to the Guiding Principles which are quoted as entry points to each of the five sections. It explains why donors assess governance, what they assess and how they assess.
• Part II provides a succinct overview of the tools and methodologies that aid agencies have reported during the survey carried out in 2007or later. It is therefore not complete. The new tools that were being developed at the time of the survey are not all included. Some agencies also chose not to include tools that are used by partner countries but not by the agencies themselves.