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Demanding Good Governance: Lessons from Social Accountability Initiatives in Africa
Edited by Mary McNeil and Carmen Malena
World Bank, July 2010
Sanjay Pradhan (Vice President, WBI): "The case studies represent a cross-section of African countries, drawing on initiatives launched and implemented both by civil society groups and by local and national governments in countries with different political contexts and cultures. They demonstrate that although social accountability approaches are strongly influenced by many underlying legal, social, cultural, and economic factors, they can still be implemented in difficult political environments (Zimbabwe). They point to the overriding problem of access to information (Ghana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe), and the low readability of information when it is available (Benin)."
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Have you accessed the latest ANSA-Africa Full Circle Newsletter?
The latest edition of Full Circle, ANSA-Africa's newsletter, examines an important topic: the ability of information and communication technology to empower civil society and force governments to be accountable.
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Access our Southern and West African Extractive Industries and Social Accountability conference papers
ANSA-Africa and a range of partners recently hosted workshops on governance and transparency in the extractive industries sector in Johannesburg (South Africa) and Saly (Senegal). The extractive industries sector is well known for being the most non-transparent and unaccountable sector in the world. Read the various country papers, complemented by thematic presentations, from both conferences.
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Selected resources on social accountability issues in the water and sanitation sector
The papers, from unfolding processes in Kenya, Uganda, Kerala (India), Peru and Honduras, cover, inter alia, governance, advocacy, community feedback and the use of selected tools.
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Innovative social accountability tools and projects
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INFONET: Citizen's engagement in enforcing accountability for the improvement of service delivery in Kenya
Social Development Network
June 2010
The Social Development Network’s main aim is to promote and facilitate effective strategic alliances among members and interested groups within Kenya. As a network, SODNET’s mandate is anchored on the need to restore the institutional integrity and civic sovereignty of the social sector. INFONET, a SODNET programme, originated in 2007, based on the need to create convergences on actions that are critical to the development of the human person. This attached presentation provides an outline of INFONET and its use of various ICT tools to promote accountability of service delivery.
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