The project will provide politically informed analysis of the use of citizen scorecards by Plan and its associates in Malawi. It aims to identify the extent to which political economy dynamics are taken into account in programme planning and implementation and how these factors influence the effectiveness of this score card initiative, including the key impacts or outcomes it has contributed to in Malawi. It will accompany this with a learning process approach, which involves Plan staff in the analysis and assessment of the score card initiative as well as providing training to build capacity in political economy concepts and tools.