This study was carried out in 2008 by Oxfam Novib Pan Africa Program (PAF) as an explorative mapping of civil society in Africa. It is effort to understand the landscape of civil society participation, particularly in the face of new continental and regional institutions (African Union, ECOSOCC, RECs…

This initiative has its origins in an emerging partnership among the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the Learning Network on Capacity Development (LenCD) and the Southern led CD Alliance to support the implementation of the capacity priorities of the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) through…

This desk study examines the support to Local Government Capital Development Grants (LGCDG) System in Tanzania as a case study of Sector Budget Support.

Over the past months Global Voices has been engaged in researching and writing about ICT for development supported by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Canada's

Fifteen years ago, global leaders at the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen described poverty eradication as an ethical, political and economic imperative, and identified it as one of the three pillars of social development. Poverty eradication has since become the overarching objective…

In September 2000, world leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and expand the choices of the poor. A set of timebound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental…

Good forest governance is an increasingly important topic for stakeholders in many different settings around the world. Two international initiatives to improve forest governance are the regional Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) ministerial processes supported by the World Bank, and the…

We the citizens of Kenya wish to issue this statement in support of the decision by the United States Government to withhold funds that had been earmarked towards Kenya’s Free Primary Education programme. As aggrieved citizens we agree and demand that those responsible for the misappropriation of…

The Africa Partnership Forum held its 13th regular session in Addis Ababa on 25th January 2010, and was addressed by the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union. The Forum conveyed its deepest condolences to the government and people of Ethiopia on the tragic loss of life following the air accident…

Following the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, both African governments and their development partners entered into a series of mutual commitments designed to promote the achievement of the goals in Africa. These commitments were embodied…

Suite a la flambee des prix des denrees alimentaires survenue en 2007/2008, l'acceleration des acquisitions et locations foncieres a grande echelle a atteint un rythme jamais egale. Cette tendance relayee de facon parfois frenetique par les medias, retient l'attention de la communaute internationale.

The USAID/Indonesia Local Governance Support Program (LGSP)1 led by RTI International supported “expanding participatory, effective and accountable governance” through an integrated set of assistance activities engaged with local governments (LGs), legislative councils, and civil society organizations…

Idasa is an independent public interest organisation committed to promoting sustainable democracy based on active citizenship, democratic institutions and social justice. Idasa understands that democracy is a principle that informs the development of political institutions, norms and procedures. In…

USAID's 2005 Anticorruption Strategy signaled a clear recognition that new approaches need to be taken by host country governments, their civil society and business communities, and international donor organizations to address corruption as a serious obstacle to development. Corruption is both the…

Internet technologies give governments an unprecedented ability to monitor…

Le but de cette publication est de servir de guide à la pratique de l’intégration d’une perspective de genre dans le processus budgétaire. Il ne s’agit pas d’un livre d’initiation. Il existe beaucoup de publications qui expliquent les raisons, l’environnement et l’histoire de l’intégration d’une perspective…

The focus of this publication is to act as a guide to the practice of gender budgeting. It is not a first-step book. There are many publications which articulate the rationale for, the background to and the history of gender budgeting and a sample of these are listed toward the end of the handbook…

At the World Summit in 2005, as in the Millennium declaration in 2000, Member States of the United Nations (UN) recommitted themselves to protecting and promoting human rights, the rule of law and democracy, recognizing that they are interlinked and mutually reinforcing and that they belong to the…

Despite the fundamental importance of gender equality, progress in Africa is slow. It will take much greater and more effective work by all partners to accelerate the pace of change.

Are natural resource abundance and opaque budgets inextricably linked? The Open Budget Survey 2008-a comprehensive evaluation of budget transparency in 85 countries-finds that resource-dependent countries tend to be less transparent than countries that are not resource dependent.