Municipal Performance Data from 140 Municipalities in Burkina Faso for the Years 2014 and 2015

The number of units in this experiment is constrained by the small size of the study population, namely the 140 municipalities covered by the PACT.

For that reason, a three-phase sequential design is adopted. In the first phase, the separate effect of disseminating performance targets to municipal administrations is evaluated on the maximal number of units (64 treatment and 70 control municipalities out of 134 municipalities in total ) which are stratified by region and rural/urban status. In the second phase, the added impact of the CBO-level intervention is evaluated on the maximal number of units (70 treatment and 70 control municipalities), stratified by treatment status in the first phase. Eventually, the data from the second phase can inform the feasibility and sample size calculations for the third phase of the experiment, which uses the same outcome measures that are used in the second phase.

For both the municipal administration performance and the CBO-level outcomes baseline data is collected in the process of creating the performance dashboards and in the process of selecting the targeted partner CBOs. For the municipal performance outcomes in the second phase of the experiment two waves of baseline data is available, originating from the baseline and the follow-up data of the first phase of the experiment.