The key findings of the research are that:
- CARE’s Community Score Card programmes have contributed to strengthening service provision and community-state relations in each of these countries, in different ways.
- Often this requires high levels of engagement with, and working through, different levels of the state apparatus. For support based on the idea of civic engagement, this is a counter-intuitive finding.
- Impacts are often ‘stuck’ at the local level and have only translated into national level impacts where they have plugged into existing reform processes.
By Joseph Wales and Leni Wild, with Victoria Chambers
