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Donor assessments

This Note provides operational guidance on how to conduct Country Governance Analysis (CGA). It aims to promote a consistent approach across DFID to ensure the analysis is clearly presented and based on common principles. The exact scope and content of any CGA will depend on the country context.

There are four main purposes of undertaking a CGA:

• to reach a judgment on both the broad trajectory of development and change in governance, as well as trends in critical and specific aspects, and the key short and medium term risks in governance;
• to inform DFID ministers and senior management understanding of historical and strategic context of governance in any particular country;
• to inform the nature, content and direction of donor governance dialogue in country (if such a process exists), or to help initiate one where it doesn’t; and
• to inform the design of DFID’s country programme, and especially the priority interventions for the governance programme

The key strategic objective of the CGA is to put a comprehensive governance analysis at the heart of the country planning process in order to better inform the DFID’s strategies and decision making.

Five key principles have driven the production of this guidance. That is the CGA should

• be rigorous and credible, and set within the framework established in the White Paper; i.e. good governance is to be found where states are capable, accountable and responsive;
• be based on existing information in the public domain;
• support, not undermine the Paris Declaration on Aid Harmonisation through shared analysis;
• support country-led approaches by building on existing processes of dialogue; and
• be embedded within the country assistance planning process

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