Since 2015, the Democracy Fund (DF) and Democracy Fund Voice’s (DFV) Governance program have invested in efforts to strengthen Congress as a co-equal branch of government.
In 2020, after more than five years of work dedicated to this goal, we invited an evaluation team to assess the system-level changes in the capacity of Congress, what facilitated those changes, and future considerations to help Congress strengthen its capacity to perform its constitutionally defined duties.
This report describes the purpose, context, and design of the evaluation, highlights the evaluation’s key findings, and offers considerations for the future.