Chapter 2: Methodological framework for an institutional diagnostic

The preceding chapter defined the objective of the institutional diagnostics of each particular country and made explicit the concepts and analytical principles that need to be mobilised in order to conduct such an exercise. By providing a short description of the methodology used in the four case studies, which forms the basis of the whole Institutional Diagnostic Project (IDP), it also gave some indication of the procedure to be followed to make sure that all of the elements that might possibly be needed for a diagnostic are available. In the present chapter we elaborate on the various steps of the methodology, relying on the experience gathered in the country case studies undertaken as part of the IDP