There is increasing evidence that e-Government can effectively support major transformation objectives of developing countries. However, an effective e-Government program requires a coherent set of policies and strategies to guide the development of the necessary regulatory frameworks, organizational and technical infrastructures, and information systems. One of the challenges in developing such policies and strategies is the absence of detailed information on the readiness of the various levels of government for e-government. Based on the results of the analysis of existing e-government readiness assessment instruments, this report presents a component-based e-Government assessment framework that enables a compositional process for developing e-government readiness instruments suitable for specific assessment context. Assessment context is defined by information such as purpose of assessment (e.g. planning or benchmarking), level of government involved (local, provincial or central) and desired scope (whether detailed or not) of assessment. We demonstrate the use of the framework by specifying concrete information requirements for assessing e-government readiness in Maldives (agency and local government levels) and then specify a possible composition scenario of components from two existing instruments to satisfy these information requirements.