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1. Assessing civil society impact for donor-assisted democracy programs: using an advocacy ladder in Indonesia and the Philippines.

Author

Blair, Harry

Subjects
*CIVIL society, *DEMOCRACY, *INTERNATIONAL economic assistance, *INTERNATIONAL economic relations, *POLITICAL doctrines, *POLITICAL systems
Abstract

Democracy assistance programs have always been notoriously difficult to measure in terms of outcome, but the need to show their impact (or lack of it) remains critical, even as the Managing for Results era of the 1990s has passed. This paper continues an effort to develop a tool for measuring civil society program impact in the form of an advocacy ladder encompassing democracy’s critical components of participation, accountability and contestation. The ladder is tested in the context of USAID-assisted initiatives in the Philippines and Indonesia, where it demonstrates a capacity both to monitor donor assistance outcomes and to suggest future program initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2002