Accountability
- Family, ethnicity and religion as forces of accountability in Africa
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This paper explores and identifies a core set of beliefs and values – concerning power, accountability and social morality – that are widely observed across sub-Saharan Africa that have proven extremely durable and remain powerful drivers of behaviour. Based on this it questions how might development efforts be redirected so that they stop working against, and start to build upon, the extant notions of moral obligation and interpersonal accountability in the region?
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- Pressing the Egyptian government for more political space for civil society
- ( M. Tadros / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2009)
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The focus of this paper is on the top-down introduction of advocacy in the Egyptian context in the 1990s as part of the bid to promote democratisation in the Arab world. The paper argues that in au...
- The integration of environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment
- ( S. Waygood (ed);B. Bacani (ed);P. Hilton (ed) / United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative , 2009)
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This report is about identifying future challenges within the financial system in order to reduce further crises like the Natural Resources Crisis. The authors integrate environmental, social and g...
- The context, challenges and strategies for the stewardship of mixed health systems
- ( G Lagomarsino;S Nachuk;S Singh Kundra / Results for Development Institute , 2009)
- In low-resource settings, a mix of public and private health providers are needed in order to ensure that health services are available to meet the needs of a population. This report from the Results ...
- Conducting social audits on the Kenyan Constituency Development Fund
- ( W. Gikonyo / Affiliated Network for Social Accountability , 2009)
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A social audit seeks to evaluate how well public resources are being used and how to improve performance and aims to ensure maximum community participation in this process. The Constituency De...
- Access to information: NGOs lag behind
- ( H. Kovach;C. Neligan;S. Burall / World Trade Organization , 2003)
- This report compares the accountability of inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), transnational corporations (TNCs) and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It assesses 18 of the wor...
- Principles for good NGO governance
- ( M. Wyatt / International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , 2004)
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The central and Eastern European Working Group on Nonprofits Governance has been exploring challenges facing nonprofits boards since its founding in 2001. A set of guidelines that could promote a s...
- Can budget support be a valuable tool for aid effectiveness?
- ( InWEnt – Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH InWEnt - Capacity Building , 2009)
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General Budget Support (GBS) has emerged as a 'progressive' mode of development country assistance. Such a process accentuates the importance of partnership and ownership – rather t...
- Tools for monitoring public resource management under the APRM
- ( C. Allan;N. Overy / South African Institute of International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) , 2009)
- This paper discusses opportunities available under the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) for civil society organisation (CSO's) to evaluate whether public resources are being properly managed. The ...
- How effective is Peer Review Mechanism (PRM) in Africa
- ( S. Naidu / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2009)
- The paper discusses the Peer Review Mechanism (PRM) which is the principal means by which African governments can be held accountable for their poverty reduction initiatives as well as their actions g...
- Challenges for public accountability initiatives in India
- ( S. Paul / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2009)
- This paper summarises some of the initiatives to enhance public accountability in India. These are divided into two categories: initiatives from the government and those that emanated primarily from c...
