Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/115462 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-513
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on citizens' assessment of service delivery performance. The second contribution is the introduction a theoretical framework to understand the pathway of change, the necessary building blocks that are needed for social audits to be effective. Using this framework, the third contribution of this article is answering the following questions: i) under what conditions do citizens decide to monitor government activity and ii) under what conditions do governments facilitate citizen engagement and become more accountable.
Subjects: 
Economic development
Political economy
Social audit
Bottom up
Citizen participation
Corruption
JEL: 
H40
H83
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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