Strong Independent Monitoring Organizations (IMOs)--policy research and research advocacy organizations that pursue transparency and accountability issues--can be key players in improving the collection and expenditure of government revenues. IMOs have already achieved significant successes, but at the same time there is a broad view in the donor community that there is still potential for IMOs to be more efficient in their work and more effective in the policy process. This paper presents a systematic analysis of areas where many IMOs' work could be improved and explores and assesses several programs that have had the explicit objective of improving IMO operations as well as providing multi-year support for their substantive work.

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