• Analysis, scores and results

Analysis, scores and results

This report introduces the basic features of the World Governance Assessment (WGA) and highlights main findings of the second round of WGA that was conducted in 10 countries in the global South during 2006.

The report also presents an overview of the methodology and the special Study Management System, a capacity-building component that is also an important part of what WGA offers.

The report shows that there is wide variety of governance assessment being pursued by different international agencies and, increasingly, by national actors. It is not necessarily easy to immediately know which particular assessment tries to achieve what. One way of getting some order in this myriad of activities is to distinguish them along two separate parameters:

• whether they are primarily analytical or programmatic (i.e. focusing on tackling particular problems) and
• whether they are donor-driven or managed by national actors

The report says that WGA is superior to various other existing approaches to governance assessment because it:

• provides information that not only civil society but also government may act upon
• covers the whole political process and is thus broader than those that focus only on democracy; and
• by not being normatively tied to a particular normative model of governance, it leaves space for local actors not only to interpret it in their own way but to act on it feeling a sense of ownership

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