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Regional Governance Week l Cairo 2012
10 December 2012 | arab spring, arab states, cairo2012, social accountability, social contractFor more than a year and a half, the Arab region has been witnessing a tremendous period of transformation. What started as a youth-led movement demanding change in Tunisia has had crucial...
Blogpost: Peeling the mango I Community dynamics and social accountability efforts in Sierra Leone
26 October 2012 | alternative indicators, alternative measurements, community, monitoring, sierra leone, social accountabilityRecently, at a community meeting I attended at Robina clinic in Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone, facilitators asked a group of young women to rate the quality of health service delivery using what...
Regional Governance Week: Social Accountability in a Changing Region - Actors and Mechanisms
23 October 2012 | arab spring, cairo2012, democracy, democratic transition, social accountabilityThe “Regional Governance Week” will take stock of the progress made towards democratic transitions from the perspective of social accountability, focusing on the process of re-negotiating the...
Curso Internacional sobre Evaluación de Programas Sociales
19 June 2012 | brazil, latin america, m&e, social accountability, spanishEl curso se llevará a cabo en Brasilia D.F., Brasil, del 6 al 10 de agosto de 2012, de conformidad con el Programa Académico 2010-2012 de la Escuela Iberoamericana de Administración y Políticas...
Commentary: Social Exclusion and Political Change
27 April 2012 | blogpost, commentary, correlation, dataset, fragility, global index, legitimacy, social accountability, social contract[...] Does the increase in social exclusion or its persistence lead to political instability? Two indices published regularly by Bertelsmann Stiftung, a private, independent German foundation and...
The Oslo Governance Forum - Democratic Governance Assessments for Social Accountability (Oslo 2011)
24 April 2012 | conference, conference materials, governance assessment, oslo2011, social accountabilityThe Oslo Governance Forum (OGF) was organised by the UNDP’s Democratic Governance Group in collaboration with United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), ActionAid, ACT Alliance, World Bank Institute...
Blogpost: Resilient Resistance in Action: 1st Community Audit of 2012
18 April 2012 | blogpost, civ action, commentary, community, initiative, local governance, social accountabilityThe inspiration behind the model that we call Community Audits came from the desire of complementing Resistance with efforts advocating Resilience — combating Injustice while supporting sources of...
Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes about Democracy – Journalist's Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center
16 April 2012 | access-to-info, civ action, comparative, correlation, ict, publication, research, social accountability, study, technologyThe global relationship between the Internet and democracy has become a subject of great scholarly interest and debate. Prior research has focused on national Internet penetration and use rates and...
M-governance: Exploratory Survey on Kenyan Service Delivery and Government Interaction *iHub_
14 March 2012 | accountability, assessment, consultancy, e-governance, governance, innovation, mobile phones, nat initiative, service delivery, social accountabilityA one-week of exploratory fieldwork was conducted in Nairobi in November 2011 , with the aim of investigating citizens’ opinions on the best methods to interact with government. The focus was on how...
Blogpost: Beyond transparency: What’s next? | A blog about Governance and Development for All
29 February 2012 | causality, extractive, impact, social accountability, transparencyDoes transparency lead to development? Not necessarily. At least not when it comes to the oil, gas, and mining sectors. Transparency is important but far from sufficient to improve livelihoods. An...