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Social Accountability in Africa - Practitioners' Experiences and Lessons
12 May 2010
Edited by Mario Claasen and Carmen Alpín-Lardiés with Victoria Ayer (SAIIA)
The Affiliated Network on Social Accountability (ANSA-Africa) and The Economic Governance Programme of IDASA (IDASA-EGP)

The handbook is now available for download!

Table of contents

Overview: Controlling power - africans' views on governance, citizenship and accountability

Section 1: Civil society-led accountability
Chapter 1: Seeking social accountability from provincial government in South Africa
Chapter 2: Ensuring social accountability in times of political crisis in Kenya
Chapter 3: Using the media to advance social accountability in Uganda
Chapter 4: Monitoring ourselves – the African peer review mechanism as a catalyst for accountability

Section 2: Government-led accountability
Chapter 5: The role of the ombudsman in ensuring an accountable public service: Malawi's experience
Chapter 6: Parliamentary oversight of the HIV and AIDS pandemic - the case of Mozambique
Chapter 7: Improving public service delivery - Kenya's public service reform (2003-2007)
Chapter 8: Leveraging state accountability - the South African commission for gender equality

Section 3: Working in partnership
Chapter 9: Developing civil society's budget monitoring capacity of HIV and AIDS resources in southern and eastern Africa
Chapter 10: The local governance barometer - measuring governance in Madagascar
Chapter 11: Activating citizens through community-based planning: the case of Johannesburg
Chapter 12: Towards an enabling environment for social accountability in Kenya
Chapter 13: Monitoring resource flows in decentralising African states

Conclusion


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