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Demanding Good Governance: Lessons from Social Accountability Initiatives in Africa
Edited by Mary McNeil and Carmen Malena
World Bank, July 2010


Demanding Good Governance: Lessons from Social Accountability Initiatives in Africa Sanjay Pradhan (Vice President, WBI): "The case studies represent a cross-section of African countries, drawing on initiatives launched and implemented both by civil society groups and by local and national governments in countries with different political contexts and cultures. They demonstrate that although social accountability approaches are strongly influenced by many underlying legal, social, cultural, and economic factors, they can still be implemented in difficult political environments (Zimbabwe). They point to the overriding problem of access to information (Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe), and the low readability of information when it is available (Benin)."

Have you accessed the latest ANSA-Africa Full Circle Newsletter?

ANSA-Africa Full Circle Newsletter The latest edition of Full Circle, ANSA-Africa's newsletter, examines an important topic: the ability of information and communication technology to empower civil society and force governments to be accountable.

Access our Southern and West African Extractive Industries and Social Accountability conference papers

ANSA-Africa and a range of partners recently hosted workshops on governance and transparency in the extractive industries sector in Johannesburg (South Africa) and Saly (Senegal). The extractive industries sector is well known for being the most non-transparent and unaccountable sector in the world. Read the various country papers, complemented by thematic presentations, from both conferences.

Selected resources on social accountability issues in the water and sanitation sector

The papers, from unfolding processes in Kenya, Uganda, Kerala (India), Peru and Honduras, cover, inter alia, governance, advocacy, community feedback and the use of selected tools.

Social accountability in Africa: Practitioner's Experiences and Lessons

This handbook, published in May 2010 by ANSA-Africa, continues to draw huge interest by users in Africa and wider afield. Read a review by Sheka Bangura: Rethinking accountability in Africa - a practitioner's perspective on the CoP-MfDR website. Critique de livre
A Book Launch: Social Accountability in Africa - Practitioners' Experiences and Lessons
The Affiliated Network on Social Accountability-Africa (ANSA-A) and The Economic Governance Programme of IDASA (IDASA-EGP)
Handbook now available for download!

Social Accountability in Africa - Practitioners' Experiences and Lessons The Social accountability in Africa: Practitioner's Experiences and Lessons handbook has been written by senior practitioners, for other practitioners of social accountability tools and approaches.

Read a review by Sheka Bangura: Rethinking accountability in Africa - a practitioner's perspective on the CoP-MfDR website.

Critique de livre

It will also be launched in East and West Africa – the date has yet to be announced.
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ANSA-Africa Full Circle Newsletter: July 2010

The latest edition of Full Circle, ANSA-Africa's newsletter, examines an important topic: the ability of information and communication technology to empower civil society and force governments to be accountable.

Big Brother is watching ...and being watched

Citizens of many African countries have become increasingly frustrated with the inability of their governments to deliver services. Mechanisms of accountability are weak, and the response to calls for action are muted as the people’s trust in government dwindles.
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Public expenditure tracking survey for primary and secondary education in mainland Tanzania Public expenditure tracking survey for primary and secondary education in mainland Tanzania
Jens Claussen and Mussa J Assad

Tanzania’s expansion in primary and secondary education over the past years has been impressive by all standards. However, the question is whether the expansion in education infrastructure and enrolment has been matched with a commensurate increase in resource allocation, that the resources have reached out to service delivery providers, and in particular schools, and to what extent it has been implemented without undue sacrifices on quality of education as measured by students’ performance. To provide some answers to the above, the Government of Tanzania has commissioned a Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) for Primary and Secondary Education in mainland Tanzania.
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ANSA-Africa is a network, jointly created by the World Bank and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in 2007, to be a leading African advocate of citizen involvement in demand-side governance initiatives. ANSA-Africa Secretariat is now hosted by Idasa, based in Pretoria, South Africa.
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 PROFILED REPORTS
African Women's Report 2009African Women's Report 2009
Economic Commission for Africa
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ECLAC/CEPAL
June 2010

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Access the Portuguese version
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Aid and Budget Transparency in Mozambique: Constraints for Civil Society, the Parliament and the GovernmentAid and Budget Transparency in Mozambique: Constraints for Civil Society, the Parliament and the Government
Publish What You Fund (PWYF)
May 2010
State of the Union Continental Report 2010State of the Union Continental Report 2010
State of the Union
June 2010
Gender Mainstreaming in Local Economic Development Strategies: A guideGender Mainstreaming in Local Economic Development Strategies: A guide
ILO Bureau for Gender Equality
2010
 Innovative social accountability tools and projects
 Casebook on Managing for Development Results  Education sector PETS
Managing for Development Results: A Focus on Africa
22 July 2010
African Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results (AfCoP-MfDR)
Public expenditure tracking survey for primary and secondary education in mainland Tanzania
8 February 2010

Tracking Capitation Grant In Public Primary Schools In Ghana
June 2010
 Procurement monitoring  Education monitoring Nigerian Procurement Observatory launches
Public Private Development Centre
4 June 2010

Communiqué: Training-the-Trainers Capacity Building on the Public Procurement Act 2007 Monitoring and Observation for CSOs
Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC)
4 June 2010 Ugandan Tracking School Attendance Project
CU@SCHOOL pilot project
7 June 2010

Using GPS to monitor school performance and accountability
World Bank Institute (WBI)
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INFONET: Citizen's engagement in enforcing accountability for the improvement of service delivery in Kenya
Social Development Network
June 2010

The Social Development Network’s main aim is to promote and facilitate effective strategic alliances among members and interested groups within Kenya. As a network, SODNET’s mandate is anchored on the need to restore the institutional integrity and civic sovereignty of the social sector. INFONET, a SODNET programme, originated in 2007, based on the need to create convergences on actions that are critical to the development of the human person. This attached presentation provides an outline of INFONET and its use of various ICT tools to promote accountability of service delivery.
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Centre for Public Integrity Newsletter 6: Mozambique moves to implement EITI
Centro de Integridade Pública Moçambique
June 2010

All payments and receipts in the mining and oil and gas sectors starting from 2008 will be published in detail, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Coordinating Committee decided in a workshop in Maputo 19-20 May 2010.

Mozambique was admitted as a candidate member of EITI in May 2009 and must submit its first report to the EITI Secretariat in Oslo by 14 May 2001. EITI is based on comparing payments made by mining companies with receipts reported by government, and the committee decided that its first report should be for 2008, which is the most recent year for which data is available. Results will be reported on a reconciliation basis, with each side reporting by company and type of payment, for example: Company: Sasol; Payment type: Company tax; Amount: X.
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 EVENTS  FEATURES
AID accountability: The role of local authorities in improving AID effectiveness
Friday 4 June 2010
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AID accountability: The role of local authorities in improving AID effectiveness

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Harvests of Development in Rural Africa: MVP mid term report
Millennium Promise
2010

At the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000, world leaders adopted the Millennium Declaration, committing nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and address pressing challenges of hunger, gender inequality, illiteracy, and disease. The year 2015 has been affirmed as the deadline for reaching these Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets.

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Africa Calling: Can mobile phones make a miracle?
March 2010

Ten years ago the 170,000 residents of Zinder were barely connected to the 21st century. This mid-sized town in the eastern half of Niger had sporadic access to water and electricity, a handful of basic hotels, and very few landlines. The twelve-hour, 900 km drive to Niamey, the capital of Niger, was a communications blackout, with the exception of the few cabines téléphoniques along the way.

Then, in 2003 a Celtel mobile-phone tower appeared in town, and life rapidly changed. “I can get information quickly and without moving,” a wholesaler in the local market told me. Before the tower was built, he had to travel several hours to the nearest markets via a communal taxi to buy millet or meet potential customers, and he never knew whether the person he wanted to see would be there. Now he uses his mobile phone to find the best price, communicate with buyers, and place orders.
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Governance for Extractive Industries
March 2010

I am pleased to share with you an update on the Governance for Extractive Industries initiative of the World Bank Institute, World Bank Africa Region and African Development Bank. Since the start of 2010 we have been working through a series of conversations and strategy discussions to help process the valuable feedback received during our earlier consultations and to shape what we believe will be a program that complements and builds on the excellent initiatives already underway. This has been a lengthy process of refinement, but we believe a worthwhile one.

This powerpoint presentation is designed to:
  1. frame the context for this effort;
  2. outline the opportunity identified to add value, and
  3. review our proposed approach and initial activities.
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Building Blocks of Social Accountability
Continental Shift in Social Accountability
 NEWSFLASHES RSS
Heritage tax battle: is Uganda at a loss?
29 July 2010
New Vision
Northern MPs top performers
29 July 2010
The Monitor
Government, donors welcome MPs' scorecard
29 July 2010
New Vision
It's how you spend the money that saves lives
29 July 2010
Irin
The African Food Basket: Innovations, interventions and strategic partnerships
29 July 2010
African Union
Group reports progress fighting corporate bribery
29 July 2010
New York Times
World Bank says foreign investors are crowding out African producers
29 July 2010
The Guardian
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