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  Using ICTs for government transparency

  eDevelopment Exchange, IDPM, 2004

  This training guide focuses on the use of ICTs to make public sector decisions and actions more open to scrutiny. The guide is aimed at a trainer who wishes to train a group of e-government practitioners from developing/transitional economies about e-transparency projects. It provides a teaching structure and course materials.
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  Accountability in health services: transforming relationships and contexts

  2003

  Accountability mechanisms are increasingly being used in health programmes around the world – to what effect?
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  Hearing the voices of the poor: encouraging good governance and poverty reduction through media sector support

  World Learning, 2003

  This paper argues that heightened media involvement in the PRSP process could help build a stronger independent media sector while preparing citizens to take an active role in dialogues that will have a huge impact on their lives.
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  Civil society, the media and internet as tools for creating accountability to poor and disadvantaged groups

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2002

  This report analyses the ways in which civil society and the media contribute to establish more accountable governments in Latin America. It provides a general overview of the trends and changes that affected the development of Latin American societies and the media in the past decade.
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  International right to know:empowering communities through corporate transparency

  Friends of the Earth, 2003

  This campaign document begins by describing the Bhopal disaster and uses it as an example of US companies failing to disclose information, in their operations abroad, that affect the health of workers, neighbours and other citizens. The International Right to Know coalition believes campaigns to address the gap in information about U.S.
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  Civil society, media and accountability in the Arab Region

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2001

  Over the past ten years, many groups in Arab states have been seen to be more disadvantaged, politically and economically, than was previously the case.
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  Global accountability report

  One World Trust, 2003

  Report compares the accountability of Inter-governmental Organisations (IGOs), Trans-national Corporations (TNCs) and International NGOs, assessing eighteen of the world’s most powerful organisations.
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  Civil society and the press in confrontation with the Press and Publications Law

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  Since the beginning of democratic liberalization in Jordan in 1989, the legislative structure of this process has been governed by three major laws regulating democratic life, namely: the Political Parties Law, the Parliamentary Elections Law and the Press and Publications Law.
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  The print media and corruption in Lebanon

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2001

  This paper details and analyses the activities initiated by civil society organizations to express their frustration and call for change concerning corruption and administrative reform in Lebanon. It focuses on the national media and its role as an important civil society vehicle in shaping public opinion and impacting governance regarding corruption.
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  Tools for Activists: an information and advocacy guide to the World Bank Group

  Bank Information Center, 2007

  As one of the largest public development institutions in the world, the World Bank Group (WBG) has an enormous impact on the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in developing and transition countries across the globe. [adapted from author]

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