The purpose of this guide to self-assessment with government partners is to support continuation and embedding of the self-assessment process for governance reform, whilst ensuring necessary robustness. A number of self-assessment processes are being supported
by the PERL partnership, in each case with respect to ARC and government partners in order to ensure local ownership of reform, and an appropriate reform trajectory. Self-assessments
currently being undertaken include:

Governance Assessments PFM-RAA Assessment of LGs

• Governance Assessments with partner State Governments in Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano and at Federal Government level;
• Public Financial Management – Rapid Annual Assessments (PFM-RAA);
• Assessments of Local Governments, or the interface between State and Local Governments.

In each case, experience from predecessor governance reform processes has been learnt and applied – largely around simplifying and streamlining processes to make the tasks of
establishing, housing, communicating and driving reform simpler. Governance Assessments are a simplified version of the previously used State Evaluation and Assessment Tool (SEAT)
and Public Expenditure Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessments, while the PFM-RAA is a similarly streamlined and updated version of the PFM assessment framework, both previously
used in SPARC.

Self-assessment processes are also useful for establishing a baseline.