Accountable, Responsive & Capable Government

The Accountable, Responsive & Capable Government (ARC) pillar of the Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL) is a seven-year governance programme, funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). ARC provides assistance to governments in the core areas of policy development and implementation. This is done by assisting them in tracking and accounting for how these policies, plans and budgets are used in delivering public goods and services to promote growth and reduce poverty among the citizenry. The ARC programme is one of the three ‘pillars’ of the PERL programme. The pillars plan together to support sustainable service delivery reforms: Pillar 1: Accountable, Responsive & Capable Government (ARC); Pillar 2: Engaged Citizens (EC); and Pillar 3: Learning, Evidencing and Advocacy Partnership (LEAP) - now embedded in pillars 1 and 2. The programme works at the federal level, in the partner states of Kano, Kaduna and Jigawa, and formerly through regional learning and reform hubs in the South West, South East and North-East areas of Nigeria.