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Social Accountability: the Ethiopian Experiment
Dr Samuel Taddesse, 4 January 2011

After a focus group discussion with the evaluation team, Ato Lemma, a schoolteacher in Hakim, Hararge asked rhetorically, "What do I want for my family and myself? And what do my friends and neighbors want? What do you want for your family and yourself?" and answered his question by saying, "Isn't?

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Briefing paper: A fool's paradise? Zambia's mining tax regime
Savior Mwambwa, Aaron Griffiths and Andreas Kahler, December 2010

Zambia's large mineral reserves are its richest natural endowment. Copper mining is the main source of foreign exchange earnings and an essential part of the country's developmental plans. This paper, based on a series of public discussions held in 2010, highlights public concern over how much Zambia?

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Oil Revenues in Angola
December 2010

?As a poor developing country recovering from civil war, Angola relies heavily on revenues from oil which accounts for two-thirds of the government's income. But civil society groups, the International Monetary Fund and other observers have long raised concerns about lack of transparency in?

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Did they perform? Assessing five years of Bunge 2005-2010
October 2010

On July 16th 2010, following the completion of the 20th session of the Bunge, the President of Tanzania dissolved the 9th Parliament. This event marked the end of the term for Members of Parliament who were elected during the 2005 general elections. Now that the last?

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EC call for proposals in Uganda: Democratic governance and accountability programme
20 September 2010

The European Commission and the National Authorising Officer in Uganda have issued this call for proposals under the Democratic Governance and Accountability Programme. The programme seeks to support the civil society and media organisations to build their capacities to be effective advocates and?

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Terms of Reference and Scope of Services for Independent Evaluation of Programme
24 August 2010

ANSA Africa was launched in 2007 at its first stakeholder conference. Since then, the network has grown quickly, and today comprises over 2,300 members from 39 countries across the continent.

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Do people prefer active MPs?
August 2010

What sort of MPs do people prefer? Do members of political parties value MPs who have been active in Parliament, who have made vocal contributions and asked critical questions? Do voters care about how much their MPs have held the executive to account on the floor of the Bunge?

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Public Environmental Expenditure Review to support poverty environment initiative in Rwanda
August 2010

This report provides the first ever public environmental expenditure in Rwanda. It was written under the theme: “Putting environment on budget”. The objective was to evaluate the appropriateness in the use of funds in the environment sector. It was supported by UNEP/UNDP funded Poverty-Environment?

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Selectedcivil society submissions to the IFC:Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability and its Information Disclosure Policy
31 July 2010

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is the World Bank's private sector lending division. Following the Bank's recent revision of its information disclosure policy, the IFC invited comments from interested stakeholders on its review of its Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability?

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Demanding Good Governance: Lessons from Social Accountability Initiatives in Africa
Mary McNeil and Carmen Malena, 2010

This is a challenging time for Africa. The combined effects of the global economic crisis, the need for equitable allocation of natural resource assets, and the ever-changing balance of influence and power between the developed and developing worlds are requiring African countries to re-evaluate their?

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Managing for Development Results: A Focus on Africa
22 July 2010

The AfCoP-MfDR has just released its first Casebook. Titled Managing for Development Results: A Focus on Africa, it embodies the commitment of the 1,200 AfCoP members who are striving to make their organizations more performance-oriented.

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Centre for Public Integrity Newsletter 6: Mozambique moves to implement EITI
June 2010

All payments and receipts in the mining and oil and gas sectors starting from 2008 will be published in detail, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Coordinating Committee decided in a workshop in Maputo 19-20 May 2010.

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Uganda: The Parliamentary Scorecard 2008 - 2009
18 June 2010

Democracies are premised on the idea that citizens can hold their leaders accountable for their actions... However, in order for this ideal to be realised, citizens must possess a minimum amount of information about their leaders' performance.

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Rapport 2010 sur les progrs en Afrique: Passer l’action
2010

Dans le rapport de l’an dernier, nous esquissions un programme d’action pour des progrs en Afrique sur la base de l’exprience acquise et des attentes du continent. Nous appelions les dirigeants africains prendre l’initiative de raliser ce programme d’action et leurs partenaires internationaux?

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Africa Progress Report 2010: From agenda to action
2010

Africa is now being described as a new economic frontier. Barely a week goes by without news of the discovery of more oil, gas, precious minerals or other resources. Deals are being signed by African countries with an ever-broader array of partners, including from China, the Far and Middle East, South?

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Beyond the legislative veil – see your lawmakers at work
2010

This Legislative Report Card seeks to provide Liberian citizens with accurate, objective, and comprehensive information about their elected leaders on a quarterly basis. It is the ambition of the Liberia Democratic Institute that the Report Card will contribute to greater transparency and, ultimately,?

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Global Integrity Report: 2010 – Call for Experts
28 April 2010

Global Integrity, an award-winning international non-profit organization dedicated to tracking governance and corruption trends around the world, is seeking interested journalists, researchers, social scientists, and other experts with a background in governance and corruption issues to prepare the?

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Introducing ANSA-Africa's In the News
21 April 2010

From the approximately 100 items we posted in our news section for the period 5-16 April 2010, we have selected these articles for our first edition. In the News is intended to provide you with a quick and easy snapshot of key social accountability processes highlighted in the Africa news?

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Streamliningthe implementation of the African Peer Review Mechanism
2010

Since its inception in 2003, the APRM has won acclaim worldwide as a novel way for showcasing Africa’s thinking on governance. However, as might be expected, the implementation of an enormous and complex undertaking such as the APRM has been fraught with a number of challenges, ranging from methodological?

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Governance for Extractive Industries
March 2010

Iam pleased to share with you an update on the Governance for Extractive Industries initiative of the World Bank Institute, World Bank Africa Region and African Development Bank. Since the start of 2010 we have been working through a series of conversations and strategy discussions to help process?

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Parliament and the MDGs in the context of the changing aid architecture: prioritizing South-South cooperation and NEPAD
March 2010

AWEPA and the Spanish Senate hosted the EU Presidency Seminar on Africa entitled “Parliament and the MDGs in the Context of the Changing Aid Architecture: Prioritizing South-South Cooperation and NEPAD”.

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International Budget Partnership: Open Budget Initiative Vacancy
9 March 2010

The International Budget Partnership (IBP) is seeking a highly qualified and experienced Senior Analyst for its Open Budget Initiative, a global research and advocacy program that works with civil society partners in nearly 100 countries to improve public access to government budget information?

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Ghana's big test: Oil’s challenge to democratic development
2010

During the British colonial era, Ghana was known as the “Gold Coast” for its prolific gold deposits. Now, as in many countries before it, Ghana’s recent discovery of a major offshore oil field has created a mixture of exuberance and trepidation.

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Oil and Governance
Karin Alexander and Stefan Gilbert, 22 February 2010

As demands for oil in Europe, North America and the East continue to rise, the discovery and exploitation of oil in Africa have become increasingly important. Natural resources in Africa have never been in short supply. Indeed, much of Africa’s recent history is defined by the scramble for and exploitation?

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Variation in performance among members of parliament: evidence from Ghana
Staffan I Lindberg, February 2010

In their day-to-day roles, MPs face a variety of formal and informal institutional pressures to supply public, collective, and private goods. The conventional wisdom is that in most African countries, informal pressures to provide private goods take precedence over public and collective goods provision.

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Alternative Mining Indada: statement
February 2010

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are an important link between government, mining companies and the communities within which mining operations take place. This was revealed when more than 50 participants from 20 CSOs met for the Alternative Mining Indaba, at the Fountains Hotel, Cape Town, a few?

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Do they work for us? Eight facts about MPs in Tanzania
February 2010

The Bunge, Tanzania's Parliament, is one of the most important institutions in the country. Its importance is reflected in the resources allocated to it. For 2009/10, Tanzania's Parliament was allocated Tshs 62 billion. Since Parliament comprises of 320 members, this amount averages to Tshs 194 million?

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African regional findings and plan of action for the advancement of the right of access to information
7 February 2010

Participants from the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information today released the Regional Findings and Plan of Action to advance the right in Africa. The conference found that while access to information is a fundamental human right, political and institutional constraints?

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Rethinking Poverty: Report on the World Social Situation 2010
2010

Fifteen years ago, global leaders at the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen described poverty eradication as an ethical, political and economic imperative, and identified it as one of the three pillars of social development. Poverty eradication has since become the overarching objective?

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Dclaration finale - Atelier PCQVP Abidjan
2 February 2010

Nous, reprsentants des coalitions africaines francophones de PCQVP runis Abidjan (Cte d’Ivoire) du 29 janvier au 2 fvrier 2010 dans le cadre de l’Atelier Francophone de Publiez Ce Que Vous Payez Afrique (PCQVP) sur le “renforcement de la campagne PCQVP et le plaidoyer pour une gestion transparente?

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Final statement:Strengthening the PWYP campaign and advocacy for greater transparency and accountability in the management of natural resources in Francophone Africa
2 February 2010

We, representatives of Publish What You Pay (PWYP) francophone African coalitions meeting in Abidjan (Cte d’Ivoire) from 29 January to 2 February 2010 at the PWYP Africa Francophone Workshop on the theme of "Strengthening the PWYP campaign and advocacy for greater transparency and accountability?

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Citizen-centric governance indicators
Maksym Ivanyna, Anwar Shah, January 2010

Governance indicators are now widely used as tools for conducting development dialogue, allocating external assistance, and influencing foreign direct investment. This paper argues that available governance indicators are not suitable for these purposes as they do not conceptualize governance and?

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Political accountability in Africa: is the glass half-full or half-empty?
Goran Hyden, January 2010

Political accountability is a central theme on the international donor agenda. It figures prominently in governance projects and research sponsored by donors like DFID, USAID and Sida, and it features as one of the priority areas in the African Power and Politics Programme (APPP).

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Beyond the midpoint: achieving the millennium development goals
January 2010

In September 2000, world leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and expand the choices of the poor. A set of timebound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental?

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The mutual review of development effectivenessin Africa:promise and performance 2009
2009

Following the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, both African governments and their development partners entered into a series of mutual commitments designed to promote the achievement of the goals in Africa. These commitments were embodied?

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Corruption and confidence in public institutions: evidence from a global survey
Bianca Clausen, Aart Kraay, Zsolt Nyiri, December 2009

Well-functioning institutions matter for economic development. In order to operate effectively, public institutions must also inspire confidence in those they serve. The authors use data from the Gallup World Poll, a unique and very large global household survey, to document a quantitatively large?

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Aid: the drama, the fiction, and does it work?
Arjan de Haan, December 2009

International development assistance is big business. Total global aid flows, from North to South, are probably over $150 billion annually, a third of which goes to Africa. Maintaining levels of aid after the financial crisis was an important part of the discussion of leaders of the G8 and G20. China?

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Democracy protection institutions in Southern Africa
December 2009

A project entitled 'Promoting the Effectiveness of Democracy Protection Institutions (DPIs) in Southern Africa' was recently undertaken by the Governance Institutions & Processes Programme at EISA. Empirical research was conducted in early 2009 on the performance of 12 human rights state institutions?

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Measuring change and results in Voice and Accountability work
Jeremy Holland and Allyson Thirkell with Emmanuel Trepanier and Lucy Earle, December 2009

DFID is committed to demonstrating the impact of UK aid. A focus on clear objectives and measuring results will help to ensure that DFID’s development efforts achieve the impact that it wants to make on global poverty.

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Pressions sur les terres ouest-Africainesconcilier dveloppement et politiques d'investissement
9 December 2009

Suite a la flambee des prix des denrees alimentaires survenue en 2007/2008, l'acceleration des acquisitions et locations foncieres a grande echelle a atteint un rythme jamais egale. Cette tendance relayee de facon parfois frenetique par les medias, retient l'attention de la communaute internationale.

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Open Government Directive: Office of Management and Budget, Washington
Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, Washington D.C., 8 December 2009

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International Budget Partnership (IBP) Budget Brief - Accounting for Results: Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in Financing for Climate Change
Athena Ballesteros, Vivek Ramkumar, December 2009

More than 190 countries are gathering in Copenhagen from December 7-18, 2009, to decide on the next significant steps to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change. To achieve this goal, one of the things that the international community must negotiate is targets for new, significant, predictable,?

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Nigeria's Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Just a glorious audit?
Nicholas Shaxson, November 2009

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) is a subset of the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and for some time NEITI has been regarded by many actors as the global EITI's flagship programme, or at least one of the two foremost national chapters?

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Guide on Legislating for the Right to Food
2009

The statement that the continuation of widespread global hunger is unacceptable and that individuals have a right not to suffer from hunger and malnutrition has been accepted and proclaimed in many international instruments and by several intergovernmental institutions, among them the Food and Agriculture?

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Africa's cooperation with new and emerging development partners: options for Africa's Development
Raphael Kaplinsky,Masuma Farooki with the assistance of Anne Terheggen and Julia Tijaja, October 2009

Emerging economies are making a rapid entry into Africa. The speed and significance of this entry means that they provide many opportunities for African economies; but, at the same time, their growing presence poses risks to Africa’s future growth.

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The Rwandan Parliament's self-assessment exercise: insights and issues
Greg Power, October 2009

This short case study describes the experience of the Rwandan parliament's self-assessment exercise which took place in two stages, in December 2008 and March 2009. This paper does not go into the detail of the assessment itself, but seeks to provide some insights which other parliaments may find?

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Financial oversight function of parliamentarians: tools and mechanisms for optimum government budget analysis
2009

The extent to which parliaments and parliamentarians are able to carry out their legislative, oversight and representative functions in ways that engender good governance values of accountability, transparency and participation is of paramount importance. The budget process – preparation, approval,?

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Electricity Governance Initiative
October 2009

The Electricity Governance Initiative (EGI) is a collaborative global initiative of civil society, policymakers, regulators, and other electricity sector actors to promote the open, transparent, and accountable decision-making processes that are a necessary part of a socially and environmentally sustainable?

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Parliament, the Budget and Poverty in South Africa: A Shift in Power
Edited by Len Verwey with Kate Lefko-Everett, Ahmed Mohammed and Musa Zamisa, 13 October 2009

Effective and transparent government budgeting is vital to any democracy. In South Africa, where there is massive poverty, inequality and unemployment despite the successful political transformation, citizens and Parliament have a particularly important role to play in shaping budget policy and overseeing?

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PWYP Africa Statement to the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa
7 October 2009

We, members of Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Africa, thank the Catholic Church for its commitment to promote the equitable management of natural resource wealth in Africa.

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Strengthening State-Civil Society Engagement in the Governance Agenda: Toward a Common Vision
1 October 2009

On October 1-2 2009, the World Bank Institute (WBI), GTZ, and the Affiliated Networks for Social Accountability (ANSAs) convened 35 key proponents of the good governance and transparency agenda at GTZ headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany to develop a common vision for strengthening state – civil society?

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Index of African governance: results and rankings
Robert Rotberg and Rachel Gisselquist, October 2009

The Index of African Governance is compiled and updated annually by a team of researchers at Harvard University and across Africa, under the leadership of Robert I. Rotberg and Rachel M. Gisselquist. The 2007 and 2008 editions of the Index were published as the Ibrahim Index of African Governance.

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The Ibrahim Index
October 2009

The Ibrahim Index provides a comprehensive ranking of African countries according to governance quality

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance is a comprehensive ranking of African countries according to governance quality. Funded and led by an African institution, the Ibrahim Index?

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NGOs and Humanitarian Reform: Mapping Study - Zimbabwe Report
Ralf Otto, 8 September 2009

This mapping study is one of a series of five reports commissioned by the NGOs and Humanitarian Reform Project. It is written by an independent consultant and does not necessarily represent the individual views of the project consortium member. NGOs and Humanitarian Reform is a three year consortium?

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African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption: conference report
September 2009

The APNAC General Meeting (GM) is held biennially at a venue agreed upon by the Executive Committee. The 2009 GM was held in Lusaka, Zambia from 19th to 20th September, 2009.

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Democracy-support: from recession to innovation
Nicholas Benequista and John Gaventa, 3 August 2009

The sense that democracy is in retreat worldwide has become widespread. But the emergence of citizen-centred, governance-focused and development-oriented approaches suggests that a more complex and hopeful shift is also taking place, say Nicholas Benequista & John Gaventa.

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The State of the Service: A review of Whitehall's performance and prospects for improvement
Simon Parker, Akash Paun and Jonathan McClory, July 2009

This report brings together a wealth of information on Whitehall's performance to create an overview of the state of the UK civil service.

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Development Support Monitor 2009
July 2009

In 2008, Africa was able to attract US$43 billion in private capital, US$40 billion in remittances and US$38 billion in aid. While this may look significant, Africa still aces a serious resource gap to complement its own efforts at mobilising domestic resources to bring about social and economic development.

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Forest governance and accountability
July 2009

Good forest governance is an increasingly important topic for stakeholders in many different settings around the world. Two international initiatives to improve forest governance are the regional Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) ministerial processes supported by the World Bank, and the?

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APRM country report no 8
Federal Repiblic of Nigeria, June 2009

The African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Summit adopted the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) in Lusaka, Zambia, in July 2001. NEPAD is a strategic policy framework for Africa’s renewal and rebirth. It aims “to eradicate poverty and to place countries, individually and collectively,?

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2009 Global Corruption Barometer
3 June 2009

Africans are among the most likely of the world's citizens to be forced to pay bribes - but they are also the most confident that their governments are trying to stop the practice, according to a new study.

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Papers: Conference on the role of sub-national jurisdictions in efforts to achieve the MDGs
May 2009

Decentralization, - the devolution of increased responsibilities to lower levels of government - and empowerment of sub-national jurisdictions (or governments) have been central and significant features of Africa’s recent reform efforts. The fiscal system in many countries has been decentralized across?

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Is Deliberation Equitable? Evidence from Transcripts of Village Meetings in South India
Radu Ban and Vijayendra Rao, May 2009

Deliberative decision-making processes are becoming increasingly important around the world to make important decisions about public and private goods allocation, but there is very little empirical evidence about how they actually work.

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Citizen Engagement for African Integration and Transformation
May 2009

The 2nd dialogue between civil society organizations and the Pan African Parliament (PAP) brought together civil society leaders from across Africa to engage with members of PAP on issues related to state and citizens’ relations. Under the theme, "African Integration, Transformation &?

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Examen mutuel de l’efficacit du dveloppement en Afrique : Un exercice unique de reddition mutuelle de comptes
2009

Le rapport Examen mutuel de l'efficacit du dveloppement en Afrique constitue la fois un exercice de reddition mutuelle de comptes , qui value ce qui a t fait pour honorer les engagements souscrits, et un examen de l'efficacit au regard du dveloppement , qui mesure les rsultats obtenus

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Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa Report 2009: Promise and Performance
2009

The Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa Report 2009 is both an exercise in 'mutual accountability'- assessing what has been done to deliver on commitments to Africa's development, and a review of 'development effectiveness'- assessing what results have been achieved.

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Angola: “Estado fracassado” bem-sucedido
David Sogge, 5 May 2009

Este ensaio considera Angola um Estado institucionalmente frgil; objectiva contribuir para o projecto de pesquisa Estados Institucionalmente Frgeis: Contextos, Responsabilidades e Respostas, levado a cabo pelo departamento de Paz, Segurana e Direitos Humanos da FRIDE.

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Angola, "failed" yet "successful"
David Sogge, 5 May 2009

This paper considers the case of Angola as an institutionally weak state. It is intended to contribute to the research project Institutionally Weak States: Context, Responsibilities and Responses, undertaken by the Peace, Security and Human Rights department of FRIDE.

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Seminaire desensibilisation de la societe civile surlemecanisme Africain d’evaluation parlespairs etlagouvernance
21 April 2009

Faire connatre le Mcanisme Africain d’Evaluation par les Pairs (MAEP), les familiariser avec ses diverses composantes en vue de leur appropriation et susciter ainsi leur apport en direction des dirigeants pour la mise en oeuvre du MAEP au Cameroun, tels sont les objectifs gnraux du sminaire de?

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Aid and domestic accountability
Prepared by Alan Hudson and the DAC Network on Governance (GOVNET) Secretariat, 30 March 2009

Poor governance constrains development. States that are accountable to their citizens are a key element of governance that is good for development. Domestic accountability - in this context the ability of citizens to hold the state answerable for its actions, and ultimately to impose sanctions for?

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A new debt crisis?: assessing the impact of the financial crisis on developing countries
March 2009

As the financial crisis leads us into a deep recession at home, what impact is the economic downturn having on the world's poor, and in particular what might be the consequences for developing country debt?

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Breaking the Curse: How Transparent Taxation and Fair Taxes can Turn Africa’s Mineral Wealth into Development
March 2009

December 2008 saw a ‘perfect storm’ hit international metals prices, bringing the five-year international metal price boom to an abrupt end. The combined collapse in demand for metals and sharp drop in the demand of institutional investors for commodity-based assets have slashed copper prices by up?

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Linking citizens and the state: an assessment of civil society contributions to good governance in Cambodia
Carmen Malena and Kristina Chhim, February 2009
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Order out of chaos: mapping the complexity of Pan African civil society
2009

This study was carried out in 2008 by Oxfam Novib Pan Africa Program (PAF) as an explorative mapping of civil society in Africa. It is effort to understand the landscape of civil society participation, particularly in the face of new continental and regional institutions (African Union, ECOSOCC, RECs?

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Building an Africa Learning Platform on capacity development
Prepared by Lawrencia Adams, Consultant, Ghana, 2009

This initiative has its origins in an emerging partnership among the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the Learning Network on Capacity Development (LenCD) and the Southern led CD Alliance to support the implementation of the capacity priorities of the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) through?

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Guidance Note of the Secretary-General on Democracy
2009

At the World Summit in 2005, as in the Millennium declaration in 2000, Member States of the United Nations (UN) recommitted themselves to protecting and promoting human rights, the rule of law and democracy, recognizing that they are interlinked and mutually reinforcing and that they belong to the?

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Resource Dependence and Budget Transparency
Antoine Heuty and Ruth Carlitz, 2009

Are natural resource abundance and opaque budgets inextricably linked? The Open Budget Survey 2008-a comprehensive evaluation of budget transparency in 85 countries-finds that resource-dependent countries tend to be less transparent than countries that are not resource dependent.

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Budget transparency and development in resource-dependent countries
Paolo de Renzio, Pamela Gomez and James Sheppard, 2009

A considerable number of developing countries, while endowed with large amounts of natural resources, are still trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and stagnation. Over the past decade and more recently due to the global boom in commodity prices this contradiction has become the focus of increasing?

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Atelier de capitalisation sur la rforme de la programmation budgtaire et l'atteinte des OMD en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre
2009

L'atelier, organis l'initiative du Ple Stratgies de dveloppement et Finances publiques du Bureau sous-rgional du PNUD Dakar, visait quatre objectifs.

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Report of the independent panel assessment of Parliament
14 January 2009

The assessment of Parliament by an Independent Panel was initially conceived as part of Parliament's engagement with South Africa's African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) process. The section of the APRM questionnaire on democracy and good political governance required an assessment of Parliament. Parliament's?

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The Open Budget Survey 2008
2008

Executive Summary
The Open Budget Survey 2008 finds that, overall, the state of budget transparency around the world is deplorable. In most of the countries surveyed the public does not have access to the comprehensive and timely information needed to participate meaningfully?

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Emerging governance issues in Africa: perspectives from the APRM process
15 November 2008

There is something decidedly new about Africa. After stagnating for much of the past 45 years, the continent is experiencing its strongest growth acceleration, with GDP growth rates gradually surpassing the global average and inflation below two-digit level - its lowest point in about 30 years. Many?

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The petroleum and poverty paradox: assessing US and international community efforts to fight the resource curse
October 2008

At present, about 3.5 billion people live in countries rich in extractive natural resources such as oil, gas, solid minerals and timber. With good governance, these resources can generate vast sums to foster growth and reduce poverty. However, many of these countries have weak governance and the revenues?

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Crime, poverty and police corruption in developing countries
Jens Andvig & Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, 23 October 2008
Crime and the fear of being hit by crime and small-scale violence are key economic and social problems in most developing countries, not least felt strongly by the poor. Extensive corruption in the police, experienced or perceived, contributes seriously to the problem. How is police corruption linked?
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Definio de Conceito: Comunidades Econmicas Regionais e o Programa dos Ministros da Funo Pblica Africanos
October 2008
O presente documento tem por fim apresentar o conceito do enquadramento triangular de interaco estratgica entre as Comunidades Econmicas Regionais (CERs), a Unio Africana (UA), qual as CER servem de pilares regionais de governao, e o Programa Africano dos Ministros da Funo Pblica. Como exerccio,?
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Document d'Orientation: Les communauts conomiques rgionales et Le Programme des Ministres africains de la Fonction Publique
October 2008
Le prsent document vise conceptualiser un cadre triangulaire d'interaction stratgique entre les Communauts conomiques rgionales (CER), l'Union africaine (UA) pour laquelle les CER servent de piliers rgionaux pour la gouvernance, et le programme des ministres africains de la Fonction publique.?
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Concept note: Regional Economic Communities and the African Public Service Ministers' Programme
October 2008
This paper sets out to conceptualise a triangular framework of strategic interaction between the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the African Union (AU) for which the RECs serve as its regional pillars of governance, and the African Public Service Ministers’ Programme. As an exercise, this entails?
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CCP-AU conference and workshop report
22 September 2008
The Centre for Citizens’ Participation in the African Union (CCP-AU) has completed the conference report that presents the proceedings, and a copy of the African CSO Communiqu of the ?Sharm El Sheikh Declaration? which was a lobbying tool that was used at the 11th Ordinary African?
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Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint: Where do we stand and where do we need to go?
Franois Bourguignon, Agns Bnassy-Qur, Stefan Dercon, Antonio Estache, Jan Willem Gunning, Ravi Kanbur, Stephan Klasen, Simon Maxwell, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Amedeo Spadaro, September 2008
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the expression of the strong commitment to universal development and poverty eradication made by the International Community in the UN Millennium Declaration in September 2000. They offer a set of concrete targets that can be used to assess the integrity of?
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Lobbyists, Governments and Public trust: Building a legislative framework for enhancing transparency and accountability in lobbying
August 2008
Lobbying is a worldwide practice that can provide policy makers with invaluable insight and data for more informed decision making. Concerns that negotiations carried out behind closed doors could override the interests of the whole community push lobbying to the political agenda in many societies. OECD?
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National Advocacy Training Conference for the Coalition on the Right to Information in Ghana: "Building blocks for the realization of the Right to Information in Ghana"
19 June 2008
On June 19 – 20, 2008, the Coalition on the Right to Information in Ghana hosted a National Advocacy Training Conference on Freedom of Information under the theme, "Building Blocks for the Realization of the Right to Information in Ghana." The Conference was funded by the World Bank and supported by?
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Going with the grain in African development? Family, ethnicity and religion as forces of accountability in Africa
Tim Kelsall, June 2008

Responding to the disappointing results of the Good Governance agenda, the Africa Power and Politics Programme is exploring the scope for approaches which attempt to ‘work with the grain’ of African societies. This paper explores what this might mean. It identifies a core set of beliefs and values?

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Raliser les objectifs du Millnaire pour le dveloppement en Afrique: Recommandations du Groupe de pilotage pour la ralisation des objectifs du Millnaire pour le dveloppement en Afrique
June 2008
Avec la ralisation, sur le continent africain, des objectifs du Millnaire pour le dveloppement et des autres objectifs de dveloppement convenus au plan international, on est en droit d’esprer que des millions de vies seront pargnes, que les femmes pourront prendre leur destin en mains, que la?
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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Recommendations of the MDG Africa Steering Group
June 2008
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals in Africa holds the promise of saving millions of lives; empowering women; addressing the scourge of illiteracy, hunger and malnutrition; and ensuring that Africa’s children have access to high-quality education?
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Participatory governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
June 2008
In evaluating the implementation of development targets such as the Millennium Development Goals, it is increasingly clear that success will require an approach which redefines the relationship between the government and civil society.
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The politics of the budget process in Latin America: Policy lessons for other countries
May 2008
A recent research programme carried out by the IADB and DFID has investigated in depth the political economy of the budget process in ten Latin American countries. At a time when the political challenges of public sector reform have come to the fore, the findings from this research study offer valuable?
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The material and political bases of lived poverty in Africa: Insights from the Afrobarometer
Robert Mattes, May 2008
The Afrobarometer has developed an experiential measure of lived poverty (how frequently people go without basic necessities during the course of a year) that measures a portion of the central core of the concept of poverty not captured by existing objective or subjective measures. Empirically, the measure?
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10th Meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum
7 April 2008

10th Meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum, 7-8 April 2008, Tokyo, Japan.

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10me Runion du Forum pour le Partenariat avec l'Afrique
7 April 2008

10me Runion du Forum pour le Partenariat avec l'Afrique, 7-8 avril 2008, Tokyo, Japon.

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Between trust and scepticism: Public confidence in institutions
Ben Roberts , March 2008
Internationally, measures of institutional trust are seen as a ‘good thermometer of malaise’ in a country.
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