There are a growing number of tools in use by development agencies for governance assessment and political economy analysis. A recent DAC review found that eleven agencies were using 30 tools for governance assessment. However, these governance tools vary considerably in the extent to which they adopt a political economy approach. According to DACs 2008 sourcebook on „Donor approaches to governance assessments‟, a political economy approach is used in nine of the seventeen general tools for governance assessment, and four of the thirteen thematic tools.
