Community-based monitoring is a part of National Rural Health Mission but it is not taking place. Lack of delivery of services at the Primary Health Centres has become the reason for apathy among villagers towards the PHCs. Meanwhile, the business of quacks is on rise. People with any serious disease?

The WaterAid paper Water utilities that work for poor people - increasing viability through pro-poor service delivery discussed the need for specific pro-poor measures to ensure water service provision to poor urban populations.

The rise of corruption as an issue on the international agenda is recent; and, in a relatively short period of time, it has achieved significant importance. Initially a marginalized element in international aid programs, corruption is now regarded as a dynamic feature on the development agenda. As?

It is our great pleasure to introduce the inaugural edition of the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA-Africa) Social Accountability in Africa volume, produced under the auspices of the ANSA-Africa World Bank-funded development grant facility.

The Country-level Advocacy Toolkit aims to help NSS managers and statisticians in developing countries start their own advocacy work and to demonstrate the advantages of planning advocacy systematically. It gathers, in a single package, advocacy methodology, tools, tips and messages.

Le Forum sur l’efficacit du dveloppement des OSC - ou Open Forum - est un processus international men par les OSC dont l’objectif est de dfinir un cadre global d’efficacit des OSC pour le dveloppement. A cette fin, il runira les OSC et d’autres acteurs du dveloppement, notamment les gouvernements?

The Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness is an international CSOdriven process towards defining a global development effectiveness framework for CSOs. To this end, it will bring together, between mid-2009 and mid-2011, CSOs and other development actors, including governments and official donors,?

Recent decades have seen great advances in gender equality at national and global levels, particularly since the 4^th World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Today, issues of gender equality and women’s empowerment have been taken into account in many national planning systems and?

Parliaments and parliamentarians have a crucial role to play in ensuring that governments are accountable for the decisions that they make about how resources - including aid - are spent. The scope parliaments actually have to play this role varies widely. Some parliaments benefit from large resources?

The CRC methodology is based on the premise that feedback on service quality, collected from communities with the help of a sample survey, provides a reliable basis for communities and local governments to engage in a dialogue and partnership action to improve the delivery of public services.

This guide gives an overview of central issues on anti-corruption and procurement. Practitioners can use the guide to get a basic understanding on how corruption might occur in procurement, why mitigating corruption in procurement is important, where the risks are and how to address the risks.

This Briefing Note explores the experience from two studies in the Maldives and in Jamaica. In both studies a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used, linked by a scorecard approach.

To inform the writing of the African Report on Child Wellbeing 2011, a number of technical papers on budgeting and related topics were written by ACPF experts and other renowned scholars who are knowledgeable on the subject. This publication entitled "Budgeting for Children in Africa: Concept and?

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM), launched on 3rd December 2005, is the flagship programme of Government of India to address the problems of infrastructure and basic services to the poor in cities and towns in a holistic manner. It comprises two broad segments, namely (i)?

The Capacity Building Component constitutes one of the 3 components of the Monitoring and Evaluation Programme that is centred around the implementation of the African Plan of Action to accelerate the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action. It is planned to prepare and facilitate?

The purpose of the Methodological Toolbox is to provide a practical aid for the implementation of the Right to Food Guidelines. It contains a series of analytical, educational and normative tools that offer guidance and hands-on advice on the practical aspects of the right to food.

This Guide is intended to respond to an increasing demand from UNDP Country Offices and a wide range of national stakeholders for guidance on the multiplicity of tools and methods that are being used to measure, assess and monitor governance at the local level. The Guide uses the term ‘local governance’?

Our water, our waste, our town is a guidance and training manual for civil society organisations showing methods and tactics that can be used in taking action to reform urban water and sanitation utitilies.

This Guide is intended to respond to an increasing demand from UNDP Country Offices and a wide range of national stakeholders for guidance on the multiplicity of tools and methods that are being used to measure, assess and monitor the performance of public administration (PAP). There is also a growing?

As the global community continues to scale up HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and maternal and child health services in low-resource countries, it is giving increased attention to the country health systems that are expected to deliver these services.

The amount of resources available to support HIV/AIDS programming has increased greatly because of resource mobilization efforts made by global initiatives, national governments and local organizations.

USAID's 2005 Anticorruption Strategy signaled a clear recognition that new approaches need to be taken by host country governments, their civil society and business communities, and international donor organizations to address corruption as a serious obstacle to development. Corruption is both the?

National programs for controlling HIV, TB and malaria require support from public and private organizations for health systems strengthening. This is based on the widespread basic premise that only through building and strengthening health systems will better health outcomes be secured.

Budgets can be complex documents. Many people feel intimidated by budget work, assuming that it requires very technical skills. The reality is that budget work can be straightforward. While some budgets are more sophisticated than others, the bottom line is usually simple. Using basic arithmetic,?

Le but de cette publication est de servir de guide la pratique de l’intgration d’une perspective de genre dans le processus budgtaire. Il ne s’agit pas d’un livre d’initiation. Il existe beaucoup de publications qui expliquent les raisons, l’environnement et l’histoire de l’intgration d’une perspective?

The focus of this publication is to act as a guide to the practice of gender budgeting. It is not a first-step book. There are many publications which articulate the rationale for, the background to and the history of gender budgeting and a sample of these are listed toward the end of the handbook?

The opinions of the general public are as important as those of the elite if a country wishes to achieve a comprehensive self-assessment process in terms of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). But gathering and measuring the opinion of ordinary people is not a simple matter.

This Training Manual contains session guides and reference notes for use in PETS training. The training sessions focus on matters of Planning and Budgeting Process in Tanzania, Public Expenditure Tracking Methodology and the role of different stakeholders in enhancing public financial accountability?

Governance in health is increasingly regarded as a salient theme on the development agenda. The increased interest in governance has been driven by the need for greater accountability, arising from both increased funding and a growing demand to demonstrate results. An intrinsic aspect of governance,?

This handbook is designed to assist community groups and individuals to understand the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) process and to provide information and skills on how to monitor these funds through a process known as social auditing.

Mobiles in-a-box from the Tactical Technology Collective is a collection of tools, tactics, how-to guides and case studies designed to help advocacy and activist organisations use mobile technology in their work.

This note is an attempt to analyze the instrumental value of social audits in guiding programming from the perspective of human rights-based approaches (HRBAs). In the documentation of experiences and programmes that incorporated HRBAs in several Asia-Pacific countries between the years 2004-2005,?

• MDGs: from the eyes of a child to the international community
• Key argument
• Definitions
  
  • Social accountability
  • Community Based Performance Monitoring (CBPM)
• Challenges
• ?

The Budgeting for Reproductive Rights resource pack was produced under a UNFPA/UNIFEM Strategic Partnership aimed at developing a Coordinated Approach for Effective Technical Assistance to Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB). This partnership is intended to build the capacity of UNFPA's?