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Briefing | Malawi | More than just ‘demand’: Malawi’s public-service community scorecard
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Public Administration, Civil SocietyCommunity-based monitoring instruments, such as scorecards, are used increasingly to complement and reinforce conventional mechanisms to strengthen accountability and performance in public-service delivery. While they have been backed by the international community, there is limited evidence on how they work in practice and what conditions they need to be effective. This Project Briefing seeks...
Africa Education Watch: Good Governance - Lessons for Primary Education
Africa, Governance and MDG, Public Administration, Report, Civil SocietyThe report, which assesses primary education management structures in Ghana, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda, analyses data from 8,500 questionnaires completed by parents, head teachers, heads of Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) and district education officers. The report identifies where the transfer of funds and supplies from central...
The APRM in Algeria: a critical assessment
Africa, Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Public Administration, Report, Civil SocietyAlgeria was one of the initiators of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). This report is about the APRM self assessment by Algeria. It states that although the assessment can be described as having been a technical success, it faced some structural problems due to lack of democracy and respect for public...
When bottom-up meets top-down: the limits of local participation in local government planning in Tanzania
Africa, Governance and MDG, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Civil SocietyThis report discusses district level planning as perceived by representatives of different districts in Tanzania. It refers to planning as a process of making choices of interventions in pursuit of sustainable development in relation to the Millennium Development Goals. It makes a distinction between top-down and bottom-up approaches and points out the lack of clarity among...
'Opitanha' revisited. Assessing the implications of PARPA II in rural northern Mozambique 2006-2009
Africa, Governance and MDG, Public Administration, Report, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThis report is part of a larger exercise of monitoring and evaluating Mozambique’s poverty reduction strategy, focussing on three districts in Mozambique and using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. It analyses the constitution and dynamics of poverty and well-being in the rural district of Murrupula, in Nampula Province, by revisiting four local communities and a total...
Africa Progress Report 2010
Africa, Conflict, Governance and Gender, Governance and MDG, Public Administration, Report, Civil SocietyAfrica Progress Panel members Kofi Annan, Peter Eigen, Linah Mohohlo and Olusegun Obasanjo launched the Africa Progress Report 2010 on 25 May 2010 in Johannesburg. The landmark publication analyses the continent’s progress and issues key recommendations to African leaders and its international partners. The report was launched in coordination with the launch of ONE's 2010 DATA Report...
Advocating for the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics: Country-level Toolkit
Africa, Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Media, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe 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. The Toolkit deals with statistical advocacy at country-level. It focuses on statistical advocacy as a means to...
Social Accountability in Africa
Africa, Book, Civil Society, Conflict, Governance and Gender, Governance and MDG, Local Governance and Decentralization, Media, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyThe publication is intended to serve as a knowledge resource to support policy-makers, public policy practitioners, law-makers, public institutions, public managers, the research and academic community, civil society, donor organisations, international and multilateral development agencies and all those actively involved and concerned with the subject of the ‘governance-accountability...
Measuring the Progress of Societies - Newsletter
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationSince its formal establishment almost two years ago, the Global Project on “Measuring the Progress of Societies” has been a successful vehicle for raising awareness and mobilising political support towards better progress measures. At the 3rd OECD World Forum in Busan, Korea last October, close to 2000 participants from over 100 countries came together to exchange best practices and...
Budget Advocacy for the Water and Sanitation Sector in Nepal
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Land Governance, Public Administration, Civil SocietyThis WaterAid publication offers not only a primer on budget, but also aims to equip civil society advocates with the necessary knowledge to help the poor and marginalised. It addresses the demand for the basic rights of and access to water and sanitation, while additionally adressing the skills to understand the underlying principles, processes and scope of budgeting from the formulation to...