Support to ASCE-LC Burkina Faso 2017-2019 - Final evaluation Support to ASCE-LC Burkina Faso 2017-2019 ASCE-LC has applied to Sida for funding of 13 million SEK to carry out the "organisational strengthening project for the high state control and anti-corruption authority of Burkina Faso" in Burkina Faso during the period 2017-2019. 
The intervention aims at strengthening ASCE-LC's capacities to implement efficiently its mission by 1)facilitating the controllers' mission with strategic and operational documents, 2)the introduction of modern human resources management tools and the improvement of the work conditions to boost the staff motivation; 3)the surveyors and verification assistants master the technics of denunciations reception, survey and report drafting; 4)the state controllers master the internal performance audit technics and the thorough analysis of the financial states of state societies; 5)review the best practices at the peer organisations level; 6)improving the public service of the managers and the senior officers to the users; 7)mastering computerized tools to reinforce ASCE-LC's credibility; 8)increasing the population awareness on corruption issues and agree with the prevention messages; 9)increasing the population ownership of the information and their participation to the actions against corruption; 10)increasing the commitment of the peer partners to the coordination of the fight against corruption; 11)increase citizen reporting of corruption cases to ASCE-LC, and 12)increasing the commitment to fight corruption at all levels. The ASCE-LC will implement the intervention together with CSOs, the general inspection of finances (IGF) and the cour des comptes. 

The intervention’s total budget is 13 000 000 millions SEK contributed by Sida. Den högsta statliga tillsynsmyndigheten för kontroll och anti-korruption, ASCE-LC, har ansökt hos Sida om finansiering med 13 miljoner kronor för genomförande av det organisatoriska kapacitetsstärkande projektet av kontrollmyndigheten i Burkina Faso under perioden 2017-2019.

Insatsen syftar till att förstärka myndighetens allmänna kapacitet för att kontrollera statsförvaltningen och hantera korruptionen i landet genom 1) formulering av strategier 2) personalförstärkning och 3) stärkande av information för att minska korruptionen och förbättra förvaltningen. ASCE-LC kommer att genomföra insatsen tillsammans med det civila samhällets organisationer och Finansinspektionen (Inspection Generale des Finances, IGF) samt Förvaltningsdomstolen (Cours des Comptes).

Insatsens totala budget är 13 000 000 kronor. Objectives of the intervention

The ASCE-LC aims at becoming a well functionning organisation. The intended
outcome of this intervention is to make available new tools through trainings for
professionalism and the developement of the communication. The state controllers
performance is improved. The global objective of this contribution is to reinforce ASCE-LC by providing new approaches, capacity strengthening and communication. 
The specific objectives are three in number with ultimate results, intermediate results to reach through indicators :
Compared to the initial project documents, an assessment of the project implementation approach implies to review the implementation framework for better consistency with the results-based management approach. Thus, the revision of the logical framework led to the revision of the objectives and expected results of the project.
The project architecture and the chain of expected project results were then redefined as follows:

Ultimate result:
The ASCE-LC Organizational Strengthening Project envisages contributing to the
achievement of the following ultimate result: "The level of corruption in Burkina Faso is reduced".
The ASCE-LC Organizational Strengthening Project targets two (02) intermediate
results and seven (07) immediate results. It's about:

Intermediate result 1: The professionalization of ASCE-LC control and anti-corruption missions is improved
To achieve this result, four (04) immediate results are defined:
Immediate result 1.1: Increased capacity of ASCE-LC in strategic management in the
context of the fight against corruption;
Immediate result 1.2: Increased access of state controllers to modern gender-sensitive tools for audit, control and the fight against corruption;
Immediate Result 1.3: Improved capacity of the ASCE-LC business body in terms of
audit, control and the fight against corruption;
Immediate Result 1.4: Institutional visibility of ASCE-LC improved;

Intermediate result 2: Improved prevention of corrupt practices and
similar offenses in public administrations
For the achievement of this second intermediate result, three (03) immediate results are defined:
Immediate Result 2.1: The Communication from ASCE-LC on the fight against
corruption is strengthened;
Immediate Result 2.2: The Coordination capacities for the fight against corruption is
strengthened with partner structures;
Immediate result 2.3: Improved capacities of partner for the popularization of anticorruption messages;