Summary of publication
The Governance Performance Assessment Note (PAN) underpins the DFAT Effective Governance Strategy and assists country and regional teams as they design and manage their aid investments. This PAN provides a range of suggested evaluative questions and indicators to assist staff in assessing the performance of aid investments in the governance sector, or sub-sectors, such as public sector reform, economic management, political representation and accountability (including electoral reform), law and justice, and anti-corruption. This PAN also provides suggested methodologies and tools for assessing the governance aspects (including political economy, fragility and conflict dimensions) of aid investments in all development sectors. This is in recognition that development results are often driven, or hampered, by governance issues (such as trying to improve the annual planning of a Health Ministry, for example, or supporting politically complex reform efforts in the infrastructure sector).