The African Development Bank commissioned this project to be lead by Nordic Consulting Group with support from ODI. This project is to (i) review the African Development Bank’s previous approach to governance assessment in member countries and existing global and regional approaches; (ii) determine best practice approaches in financial governance assessment; (iii) create a concept note on the rationale, methodology, costing and potential partners for a bi-annual African Governance Outlook publication; and, upon Bank approval (iv) draft the process, protocol and indicator guidelines necessary to undertake the AGO.