Performance Audit and Policy Evaluation in the Western Balkans

From a conceptual perspective, performance audit and policy evaluation are very close fields, with highly converging goals, methods and tools.

At the same time, in the Western Balkans these two fields have been evolving without connection and reference to each other. How can the two processes be brought closer together in the three studied WB countries – Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia – with a view to ensure efficiencies and synergic development of these rather novel performance management instrument?

The study is the final product of a research project which lasted over twelve months. The project “Performance Audit and Policy Evaluation: On the Same or Parallel Tracks?” is implemented in the framework of the Regional Research Promotion Programme in the Western Balkans (RRPP) with financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Policy Briefs are available in English, Serbian, Montenegrin and Macedonian.

The authors are Milena Lazarević, Miloš Đinđić, Simonida Kacarska, Jovana Marović, Marko Sošić, Kristina Cuculoska