Citizen voice and state accountability: Towards ... - Capacity4Dev

long term impacts such as inclusive growth and development, reduction in corruption and improvedquality of leaders within government and society.It is envisaged that, in working with this analytical framework, programme teams will be able to enterinto an ongoing learning cycle based on an ongoing process of analysis, intervening and learning on apathof learning will produce betterresults than the preceding one, as positive experiences are replicated and retested. In terms of policymakersor organisations whose primary focus is on influencing policy change, this approach can helpthem to generate better evidence for influencing policies. For donors, the analytical approach mightlead to identifying effective mechanisms of supporting social accountability initiatives in differentcontexts.In developing this analytical framework, we draw on the principles of the well-known approaches ofoutcome mapping (OM) and political economy analysis (PEA). In their current forms, these approachesare used independently and for different purposes. However, through the action research process ofthe Mwananchi programme, we found a particular way of fusing relevant elements of PEA and OM inorder to inform the evolution of ToCs for CV&A programmes. The central idea of the paper is to explainthis fusion of PEA and OM in deepening analysis and hence understanding of the ongoing dynamicswithin citizen state interactions; and of the influences of the wider context on these interactions. It isalso about explaining how we can systematically identify and understand the game-changers in thesedynamics and how their context-dependent behaviour could be influenced in order to make the desiredCV&A change happen. The paper seeks to achieve these aims with real CV&A programme teams andprojects in mind.vi