This article reports on a mid-term evaluation of the impact of a recent anticorruption program developed by the Bank's Economic Development Institute (EDI). Central in EDI's approach is helping to develop and/or reinvigorate a country's National Integrity System (NIS). Integrity pillars, amongst others, are administrative reforms, watchdog agencies, Parliament, civil society, public awareness, the judiciary, the media and political will.
The evaluation focuses on two African countries. It describes goals and instruments of the EDI approach, and puts these in an institutional context. The underlying ‘program logic’ is reconstructed. This reconstructed ‘logic’ is confronted with findings from a literature review, document analysis and on-site interviews in Uganda and Tanzania.This (realist evaluation) approach highlights the importance for evaluators to unravel (behavioural and social) mechanisms that underly programs.
Conclusions are drawn about the program and its delivery including participants' assessment of workshops and likely wider impact in the societies concerned.
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