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  Tools, platforms and mechanisms to support accountability to disaster-affected populations in the Philippines

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  When Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in 2013, a number of national and local government tools, platforms and mechanisms were put in place to support the coordination of national government efforts to respond to the disaster. Many of these tools, platforms and mechanisms are web-based and accessible to the public.
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  Transforming governance: how can technology help reshape democracy?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016

  The governance field is preoccupied with the question of how we can make democracy work better.
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  Spotlight on publications: design, adoption and implementation of Latin American Freedom of Information Acts

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012

  In the last two decades, Latin American countries – from Brazil, Chile and Colombia to Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Uruguay - have designed and adopted innovative Freedom of Information Acts (FOIAs).
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  Spotlight on publications: methodologies of Latin American report cards on health

  2012

  In the last decades, citizen initiatives formed by academia, the private sector and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in various Latin American countries have emerged seeking greater participation in social oversight of their cities’ public policies.  The report card methodology is one of the tools these initiatives have used.
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  Spotlight on publications: participatory budgeting

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011

  Latin American countries pioneered participatory budgeting (PB), an innovative mechanism enabling citizens to decide how public funds will be spent.
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  Spotlight on publications: right to consultation in Latin America

  2013

  Drawing on case study material from across Latin America, the publications in this overview present and analyse progress made on the right to consultation at the regional and national levels, on-going challenges and key lessons learned.
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  A practical guide to social audit as a participatory tool to strengthen democratic governance, transparency and accountability

  United Nations Development Programme, 2011

  This Practical Guide analyses social auditing experiences around the world and extracts important lessons that intend to provide practical guidance to United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and other United Nations agencies officers, advisers, and partners, as well as development practitioners, donors and governments.
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  Implementing right to information: a case study of Mexico

  World Bank, 2012

  In June 2002, President Vicente Fox (2000－06) signed a landmark transparency bill into law. The adoption of the Access to Public Information and Transparency Law (Transparency Law) was a distinctive moment in Mexican politics. - See more at: http://ella.practicalaction.org/knowledge-new-post/implementing-right-to-information-a-case-study-of-mexico/#sthash.YI41gzoj.dpuf
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  Forgiveness: unveiling an asset for peacebuilding

  Refugee Law Project, Uganda, 2015

  Within the international community – international lawyers, human rights activists, officials of international organizations, and the staff of NGOs focused on peace-building – forgiveness is little understood, widely ignored, and often overshadowed by other activities thought to be more urgent.
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  Who’s asking? Interviewer coethnicity effects in African survey data

  Afrobarometer, 2015

  Face-to-face interviews constitute a social interaction between interviewer and respondent, yet research employing African survey data typically fails to account for the effect of shared ethnicity on survey responses.

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