What are some appropriate or inappropriate ways of interpreting data from the Liberia Local Governance Toolkit?
The Toolkit provides in-depth material for users to identify strengths and weaknesses in Liberia’s anti-corruption framework at the county level. Our stress on “integrity” is meant to highlight the sub-national Integrity Indicators’ usefulness as a positive tool for policy formulation rather than as a “naming and shaming” ranking. We view the Toolkit’s greatest strength as its ability to unpack governance challenges within each of Liberia’s 15 counties into discrete, actionable choices rather than just single numbers or rankings. The richness of the data set enables a discussion of how best to allocate limited political and financial capital when the challenges are many and the resources few.
