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SGACAF: Strategic Governance and Corruption Assessment Framework
The Strategic Governance and Corruption Assessment framework has been developed by CRU for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The SGACAF aims to assist embassies in addressing specifically the need to increase the effectiveness of governance interventions in target countries. Through analysis of the root causes of weak governance, SGACAF's evaluation serves as a basis to critically review governance strategies and priorities. The SGACAF process looks at governance and corruption through a different 'lens'; focusing on the underlying determinants of governance and on relationships between formal and informal institutions and agents.
The main stakeholders as well as the leaders of the assessment exercises are Dutch embassies in Dutch partner countries for development cooperation. A standard methodology (the Framework for Governance and Corruption Assessment, FGCA) that will be tailored to the specificities of each partner country has been developed. While the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hopes to implement the methodology in all its partner countries, SGACAF has already been tested in three pilot cases: Rwanda, Uganda and Pakistan.