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Proactive Transparency: The Future of the Right to Information?
Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2010), v, 51 pp.
"This paper identifies four primary drivers of proactive disclosure throughout history. The first is the need to inform the public about laws and decisions and the public’s right to be informed, to know their rights and obligations. The second is the public’s demand for the information needed to
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Getting it Together: Strengthening Transparency, Accountability, Participation and Non-Discrimination with Communication Methods
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2010), 39 pp.
"This Guidance Note suggests concrete ways to enable the people in a country to influence the work of government and public agencies - and in that way ensure democratic development results. While both the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action point to the need for better use of communica
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Measuring Change and Results in Voice and Accountability Work
London; Glasgow: Department for International Development (DFID) (2009), v, 72 pp.
"This Working Paper from DFID’s Evaluation Department offers a menu of Voice & Accountability (V&A) indicators, and suggests steps for building monitoring and evaluation frameworks for V&A interventions. It provides a check list of management issues, and some ideas for data collection. It does not
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Building Public Awareness of Development: Communicators, Educators and Evaluation
Paris: OECD Development Centre (2008), 38 pp.
"Donors and practitioners could make greater use of evaluations, and their findings, to increase the effectiveness and results of public communication, advocacy and education about global development. The first step is to understand the evaluation process and respect its rigours. The second is to ac
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Joint Evaluation of Citizens' Voice & Accountability: Synthesis Report
London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2008), xxi, 109 pp.
"Citizens’ Voice and Accountability (CV&A) work has emerged as a priority in the international development agenda from the 1990s onwards. In their CV&A work, donors recognise the importance of context: it shapes relation to that context. However, context awareness has not proven sufficient to enab
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Evaluation of Citizens' Voice and Accountability: Review of the Literature and Donor Approaches Report
London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2007), xii, 60 pp.
"Enhancing citizen voice and accountability has increased in importance for donors since the 1990s. This paper reviews existing literature and the strategy and policy documents of seven DAC donors in order to contribute to the design of an evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of these do
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NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations
London: Earthscan (2006), xii, 257 pp.
"This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the issues and politics of NGO accountability across all sectors and internationally. It offers an assessment of the key technical tools available including legal accountability, certification and donor-based accountability regimes, and ques
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Die fünfte Gewalt: Lobbyismus in Deutschland
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2006), 366 pp.
FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) and Civil Society
Lagos: International Press Centre (IPC) (2003), 140 pp.
Ciudadan@s "de a de veras": Una propuesta de vigilancia de la gestión pública, desde un enfoque comunicacional
Lima: Calandria, 2nd ed. (2003), 164 pp.
"Las páginas que siguen tienen, además de un rico arsenal teórico, un evidente carácter testimonial. Refleja los esfuerzos cumplidos por los Comités de Vigilancia Ciudadana respecto de los congresistas electos por los departamentos de Arequipa, Cuzco, Huancavelica, Loreto y Ayacucho. La elecci
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The Earthscan Reader on NGO Management
London: Earthscan (2002), 464 pp.
"Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) vary in their origins and roles, but all share a similar set of questions for management and organizational development. NGOs face constant and complex challenges - unpredictable funding, the complexity of social change, and no single bottom-line for success -- a
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Watchdog Journalism in South America: News, Accountability, and Democracy
New York: Columbia University Press (2000), xxiv, 282 pp.
