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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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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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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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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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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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Role of the legislature in the budget process: recent trends and innovations
Paul Posner and Chung-Keun Park, 2007
Theme: General
This article provides a broad historical and conceptual overview of the evolution of legislative roles in budgeting, and assesses the potential consequences of expanded roles. By analysing country budget institutions and practices, the article proposes ways to establish sound relationships between the…
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State reform and social accountability
Peter Houtzager, Anuradha Joshi and Adrian Gurza Lavelle, 2008
Theme: General
This IDS Bulletin focuses on the role of civil society actors in the design of sectoral reforms and the possibilities of social accountability resulting from this role. In addition to large institutional reforms in social assistance and health, the articles cover education reform in India as well. They…
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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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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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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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As African countries overhaul education, a school succeeds against the odds
05 December 2007
Theme: Education
Here at the Chiseka school on the rural outskirts of town, many children attend class outside, sitting among weeds in the shade of a towering blue gum tree. There are 1,531 students, six classrooms, no running water and no light bulbs.
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Rwanda: Bridging the Digital Divide to Reduce the Dependence On Aid
02 November 2007
Theme: ICT
More than US$50 billion of largely private sector investment has been pledged to develop Africa's burgeoning information and communication technology (ICT) sector at a summit attended by African heads of state and more than 1,000 representatives from the industry.
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SADC AIDS Network of Nurses and Midwives
04 October 2007
Theme: Health
I am indeed privileged this evening to be addressing the audience of your calibre. Occasions like these are a delight to be part of, not only because they bring us together but because they create an opportunity for all us to refocus on our common goal - which is the improvement of the health of our…
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Trust in state institutions: Opinion poll data from five African countries
26 February 2008
Theme: General
Efforts to promote social accountability, it could be argued, stand a better chance of success in countries where citizens have a generally positive view about state institutions. Over the last year, Gallup Consulting has published the results of opinion polls in various African states which probe this…
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