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Representatives from developing country accountability institutions together with donors and relevant experts guide this work, which builds on human rights, anti-corruption and taxation efforts. They also co-operat on ownership and accountability with the DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, with particular relevance to work on mutual accountability.

At the heart of this work lie in-country, multi-stakeholder dialogues that identify challenges and opportunities for enhancing citizen-state relations, taking account of the politics and impact of aid on domestic accountability. Donors and a team of local and international analysts support these case studies. The dialogues in each country bring together donors, government officials, civil society and representatives of various accountability institutions to discuss how donors can improve their support to effective citizen-state relations across sectors, using such entry points as the budget process, service delivery in the health sector and electoral processes. As part of the work on electoral processes, draft Principles on International Support to Elections are also developed.

An overview and detailed list of planned case studies can be found here (pdf, 119 kB)

Building on evidence from dialogues, GOVNET aims to deliver:

• a policy paper on the impact of aid on the scope and capacity for domestic accountability, exploring the effects of different types of aid delivery on support for effective citizen-state relations.
• operational guidance for donors on how to maximise the impact of aid on domestic accountability. This guidance also emphasises support to domestic accountability institutions that takes proper account of country context and focuses on emerging accountability systems rather than on individual accountability institutions alone.