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Some recent experience in Community Voice Card: An innovative tool towards assessing service delivery for MDGs
Neela Mukherjee, 2008
Theme: Service delivery
Publication type: Toolkits and methodologies
Community Voice Card (CVC) is emerging as a handy tool for peoples’ assessment of delivery of services by different agencies, whether government, non-government or private agencies. Peoples’ views are important as they are the main clienteles and stakeholders of the development process. The scope of…
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Our money, Our Responsibility: A citizens' guide to monitoring government expenditures
Vivek Ramkumar, 2008
Publication type: Toolkits and methodologies
The International Budget Project (IBP) is pleased to announce the release of its latest publication, "Our Money, Our Responsibility: A Citizens' Guide to Monitoring Government Expenditures." This Guide documents pioneering methodologies used by civil society organizations around the developing world…
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Participatory budgeting in Africa - Volume I: Concepts and Principles
2008
Publication type: Toolkits and methodologies
This Companion is aimed at helping local governments in Africa and other stakeholders to prepare for, design, initiate and manage a participatory budgeting process, by training key actors who initiate the budgeting processes. Hence, the targeted audiences of the Companion are the facilitators or persons…
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Participatory budgeting in Africa - Volume II: Facilitation Methods
2008
Publication type: Toolkits and methodologies
This Companion is aimed at helping local governments in Africa and other stakeholders to prepare for, design, initiate and manage a participatory budgeting process, by training key actors who initiate the budgeting processes. Hence, the targeted audiences of the Companion are the facilitators or persons…
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Social accountability in the public sector
2005
Publication type: Toolkits and methodologies
A growing number of authors and practitioners have offered civic engagement as a way to improve the accountability of public institutions and office holders to their constituencies. This paper and learning module attempt to clarify one aspect of the growing literature on civic engagement: society’s role…
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Generating genuine demand with social accountability mechanisms
November 2007
Publication type: Toolkits and methodologies
The World Bank’s Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) held a workshop entitled Generating Genuine Demand with Social Accountability Mechanisms in Paris, France, in November 2007.
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The Scorecard Toolkit: A generic guide for implementing the scorecard process to improve quality of services
2007
Publication type: Toolkits and methodologies
This tool kit has been designed to be used by many kinds of users from institutions operating in different sectors. The toolkit is generic in nature and can be applied in any sector, be it health, education, or agriculture. The tool can be used to facilitate good governance through promotion of participation,…
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The business of health in Africa: Partnering with the private sector to improve people's lives
January 2008
Theme: Health
This report describes opportunities for engaging and supporting a well managed and effectively regulated private sector to improve the region’s health. We hope that governments, donors, investors, nongovernmental organizations, and health care providers will find this research a useful addition to traditional…
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In the know: Using information to make better decisions
February 2008
Theme: Service delivery
Publication type: Toolkits and methodologies
When decision makers use information well, local public services improve.
The quality and cost of our local public services depend upon the decisions that many people make: users make choices; professionals exercise judgement; managers prioritise; and politicians allocate resources. Using information…
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A vicious circle of corruption and mistrust in institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A micro-level analysis
Wonbin Cho; Matthew F. Kirwin, September 2007
Theme: General
Corruption is one of the most important constraints on economic growth and political development in Africa. Excessive state control of economic activities has turned the institutions of government into instruments to loot the economy to generate benefits for individuals and politically dominant groups.…
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Governance Forum challenges Africa’s heads of state on transparency, legitimacy, participation: African countries commit to strengthening state capacities for good governance
05 November 2007
Theme: Service delivery
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: After three days of around-the-clock deliberations, the 300 delegates at the Seventh Africa Governance Forum (AGFVII) agreed on recommendations to boost the efficiency and responsiveness of African governments to deliver essential social services to their people.…
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Is aid channelled through African governments a waste of money?
21 January 2008
Theme: Service delivery
Yes: John O'Shea says Irish aid bestows legitimacy and credibility on rapacious and oppressive governments.
No: Hans Zomer says that without government, there can be no development. Aid comes from the outside, but development must come from within. …
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Demolishing Zimbabwe's education system teacher by teacher
08 April 2008
Theme: Education
With the inflation rate at 100,000%, educators simply can't afford to teach. They are fleeing to take menial, but better-paying jobs -- leaving students behind.
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Can the cellphone help end global poverty?
13 April 2008
Theme: ICT
If you need to reach Jan Chipchase, the best, and sometimes only, way to get him is on his cellphone. The first time I spoke to him last fall, he was at home in his apartment in Tokyo. The next time, he was in Accra, the capital of Ghana, in West Africa. Several weeks after that, he was in Uzbekistan,…
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Social accountability imperative to a decent education system
08 September 2008
Theme: Education
Oxford University's Dr David Johnson says that without a strong level of local accountability, education in developing countries will not see its quality increase.
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Mauritius: Women still seeking the political kingdom
16 September 2008
Theme: Gender
PORT-LOUIS, Sep 16 (IPS) - Mauritius -- along with Botswana, Malawi and Madagascar -- did not sign the Gender Protocol at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in August. While the island nation has made some recent progress in political representation of women at the level of Parliament,…
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Trevor Manuel: Steve Biko memorial lecture
11 September 2008
Theme: Service delivery
Ninth Annual Steve Biko memorial lecture delivered by Minister of Finance T Manuel, in Cape Town.
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Does community monitoring improve public services? Diverging evidence from Uganda and India
16 September 2008
Theme: Service delivery
The push toward community monitoring of public service delivery in development projects is based on the notion that local oversight will raise the social accountability of public service providers and thereby improve the quality of services. Diverging results from evaluations of two community monitoring…
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ANSA-Africa - Invitation aux propositions
21 May 2007
Theme: General
Les opérations de l'ANSA-Africa porteront sur un éventail d’interventions et projets sur tout le continent. L’objectif est de faire en sorte que ces projets soient menés en association avec des partenariats locaux dans les divers régions et pays. Cette démarche permettra de donner une bonne base à ces…
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The Next Step: Civil Society Mobilization in Africa’s AIDS Fight
14 January 2008
Theme: Health
In the past seven years, the world has witnessed at least three hopeful trends in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa: (1) funding for AIDS prevention, care, support, and treatment programs has reached an all-time high; (2) the HIV prevalence rate has declined in some countries; and (3) most African…
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