Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC BANGLADESH COUNTRY CASE STUDY CITIZENS’ VOICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY EVALUATION July 2008 Citizens’ Voice and Accountability Evaluation – Bangladesh Country Case Study July 2008 Production: Swiss Cooperation Office, Dhaka, Bangladesh Cover Design: Designgrafik A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark This report can be ordered from the Swiss Cooperation Office in Dhaka:
[email protected] The report will, together with the four other Country Case Studies from Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Mozambique and Nepal, be placed on the CD-ROM inserted in the main evaluation report which will be published by the Department for International Development, DFID, later in the year: www.dfid.gov.uk The Bangladesh Country Case study was supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and by the British Department for International Development. It has been undertaken by a team from Oxford Policy Management comprising Dr Dee Jupp, Dr Jeremy Holland, Sohel Ibn Ali and Jens Stanislawski. Responsibility for the content and presentation of findings, conclusions and recommendations rests with the authors. i Citizens’ Voice and Accountability Evaluation – Bangladesh Country Case Study Table of contents List of tables and figures iv Acknowledgements v Executive Summary vi Abbreviations and Glossary x 1 Introduction 1 2 Methodology 2 2.1 Analytical approach 2 2.2 Research questions 3 2.3 Case selection process 3 2.4 Methods and instruments 7 3 Context for CVA 8 3.1 Country context 8 3.2 Donor landscape regarding CVA interventions 13 4 Findings 15 4.1 Opportunities, constraints and entry points for CVA 15 4.2 Capacities of state and non-state actors 17 4.3 CVA channels: Actors and mechanisms 23 4.4 Changes in policy, practice, behaviour and power relations 27 4.5 Development Outcomes 31 5 Lessons learned 33 5.1 Channels, mechanisms and processes 33 5.2 Pathways to broader development outcomes 38 5.3 CVA and aid effectiveness 38 6 Recommendations 41 Annexes 44 Annex A.