ECA
Releases Governance Country Profiles Series
By
Carolyn Knapp, Communication Officer, ECA
11 July 2005
For each of the 28 countries in the
measuring and monitoring good governance study, the local research institutes
collected on behalf of ECA extensive amounts of data on political, economic
and social affairs. ECA has therefore condensed the Nationa Country Reports
and provided a sampling of the results in its Governance Country Profile series.
Three research instruments were
used to collect data:
- An opinion-based study
using a national Expert Panel, comprised of a group of national experts whose
numbers ranged from about 70 to about 120 across project countries. In each
of the 28 project countries, members of the Expert Panel were carefully drawn
to ensure representation with regard to age, social status, education and
field of training, political orientation, the private sector, civil society
organizations, and ethnic, regional and religious background as well as gender
balance.
- A national sample survey
from some 1,300 to 3,000 households across Africa to represent a cross-section
of the population (i.e., rural and urban, poor and middle class, the educated
and the illiterate) to gauge perceptions of principal national problems and
the accessibility, adequacy, and efficiency of government services.
- Desk-based research
of factual information and hard data to supplement and complement the Expert
Panel perceptions and national household surveys.