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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


Demanding Good Governance: Lessons from Social Accountability Initiatives in Africa 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)."

Have you accessed the latest ANSA-Africa Full Circle Newsletter?

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.

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.

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.

Social accountability in Africa: Practitioner's Experiences and Lessons

This handbook, published in May 2010 by ANSA-Africa, continues to draw huge interest by users in Africa and wider afield. Read a review by Sheka Bangura: Rethinking accountability in Africa - a practitioner's perspective on the CoP-MfDR website. Critique de livre

 PROFILED REPORTS
Aid and Budget Transparency in Mozambique: Constraints for Civil Society, the Parliament and the GovernmentAid and Budget Transparency in Mozambique: Constraints for Civil Society, the Parliament and the Government
Publish What You Fund (PWYF)
May 2010
State of the Union Continental Report 2010State of the Union Continental Report 2010
State of the Union
June 2010
 Innovative social accountability tools and projects
 Casebook on Managing for Development Results  Education sector PETS
Managing for Development Results: A Focus on Africa
22 July 2010
African Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results (AfCoP-MfDR)
Public expenditure tracking survey for primary and secondary education in mainland Tanzania
8 February 2010

Tracking Capitation Grant In Public Primary Schools In Ghana
June 2010
 
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.
Building Blocks of Social Accountability
Continental Shift in Social Accountability
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Heritage tax battle: is Uganda at a loss?
29 July 2010
New Vision
Northern MPs top performers
29 July 2010
The Monitor
Government, donors welcome MPs' scorecard
29 July 2010
New Vision
It's how you spend the money that saves lives
29 July 2010
Irin
The African Food Basket: Innovations, interventions and strategic partnerships
29 July 2010
African Union
Group reports progress fighting corporate bribery
29 July 2010
New York Times
World Bank says foreign investors are crowding out African producers
29 July 2010
The Guardian
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