Community Scorecards
Some of Our Experience in Community ScorecardsCivil society in Ghana is becoming more and more interested in government accountability, and a number of civil society organizations have now taken up the role of helping citizens to hold government accountable. Donor agencies are also increasingly interested in supporting such initiatives. As more of donor inflows into the country are channeled through the Government of Ghana, through facilities such as Multi-Donor Budget Support, those donors are increasingly concerned to ensure that mechanisms of accountability and transparency are in place.
The Northern Ghana Network for Development, which is an umbrella organization for NGOs and community-based organizations working in the north of the country, has adopted the Community Scorecard methodology as its key strategic approach for holding government and government service providers accountable. We helped the the Network to design, source funding for, and conduct training for several projects using this methodology:
- Information Flow, Accountability and Transparency (INFAT)
- Focus: Performance of primary education facilities in two Districts
- Funder: Commonwealth Education Fund
- More information
- Local Government Enhancement Project
- Focus: Local government accountability
- Funder: Ibis Ghana
- More information
- Information Flow, Accountability and Transparency II (INFAT II)
- Focus: Performance of primary education facilities in two Districts
- Funder: DFID
- More information
- Community Assessments Through Community Scorecards
- Focus: Assessing performance of water and sanitation service providers
- Funder: DISCAP/CIDA
- More information
- Development of Community Scorecard Facilitation Manual
- More information
Detailed description of these and other past experiences in Community Scorecard processes.
Community Scorecards
Steps in a Community Scorecard Process
Flow of Information in a Community Scorecard Process
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