May 2011 Blog Posts (15)

Dear Hannah,



In response to your question here a methodological note on the Multi Stakeholder program Rwanda: Strengthening the Joint Action Development Forums. Not exactly on result-based budgeting… but definitely part of the overall process to come to a result-based budgeting.



The Multi stakeholder forums program started with very simple principles/notions:

• People need to talk, exchange experiences, learn together, connect, build trust and a sense of togetherness… Continue

Start Date: Jul 13, 2011

End Date: Jul 15, 2011

Venue: Vienna, Austria

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The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), through its Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM), and the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) have organized twenty interregional seminars and symposia since 1971. These have covered over…

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Start Date: Jul 11, 2011

End Date: Jul 13, 2011

Venue: Vienna, Austria

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This Workshop will explore how the engagement of citizens—and their organizations in civil society and the private sector—can contribute to improve public accountability in the delivery of public services. The goal of the Workshop is to enhance knowledge and build a shared understanding of what participatory institutions,…

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Start Date: Jul 07, 2011

End Date: Jul 08, 2011

Venue: Vienna, Austria



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The goal of this EGM is to update global knowledge in the field of citizens engagement to enhance public service delivery, with particular attention to ways in which participatory approaches are being used in countries around the world to strengthen public sector accountability and prevent corruption. This objective is of… Continue

In our last few posts, we emphasized that Output-Based Aid (OBA) makes tracking outputs delivered automatic since monitoring is an integral part of project design. The Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) makes it easy to get up-to-date information on the progress of these outputs through its public online database – “OBA Data” (www.oba-data.org). However, while OBA’s built-in accountability mechanisms are important, ultimately, outputs, such…

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PRISM (Procurement, installation, service, maintenance and use of scientific equipment)

Researchers in economically developing countries often…

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This report traces the contribution of CoPs in fostering a culture result and shows how National Chapters are active in a wide range of sectors at the country level. In addition, it provides an estimate of the number of people who participated in National Chapter Capacity Building activities. To date, nearly…

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The Republic of Kenya enacted its water sector reforms in 2002. In 2006, the University of Siegen and Kenyatta University started the formation and training of two pilot catchment areas in “Integrated Watershed Management” (IWM). This has enhanced public participation in the implementation of the national water sector strategy in the whole country.

 

 

Challenge

Kenya was at the brink of a water disaster as the rainfall became unpredictable. Most of…

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In 2002, two Dutch international non‑governmental organizations (NGOs) – CORDAID and Health NET – introduced performance-based financing (PBF) in five health districts of Rwanda, to tie financial support from the NGOs to the achievement of quantitative results. In 2005, in a health district support project, Belgian technical cooperation experimented with PBF, adding quality to the mix. Early in 2006, when the projects of the two NGOs were coming to an end, ministerial authorities decided to…

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Since 2008, the Somalia Community-Driven Recovery and Development (CDRD) Project has assisted 128 communities to participatorily prioritize their development projects into Community Action Plans (CAPs) and democratically elect separate and representative planning and implementing bodies. The latter have so far translated 48.3% of the CAP priorities into 194 concrete development projects that are aligned with government plans for the respective… Continue

The AfCoP has just hit in April the 2,000 members mark. It took two years and half to reach 1,000 members, but only a little over a year to cross the 2,000 threshold! Over the past 15 months, an average of 70 new members joined the AfCoP every month.

 

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The African Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results (AfCoP-MfDR), the Government of Kenya and the Kenyan Community of Practice (CoP) on MfDR are jointly organizing the 2011 AfCoP Annual Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 23-25, followed by a two-day training on performance budgeting organized by…

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Price Freeze as a Policy to Control Inflation in Ethiopia

 

Ethiopia being referred as free market economy, since 1995 when the current government took power from the socialist party, has been following different scenarios to stabilize the economy which is assumed led by the interaction of demand and supply. It has been difficult to economists to evaluate the impact of the socialist economic system (1974-1995) in the country due to the political…

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CIGI’s Africa Initiative (AI) announces a call for proposals for its research grants competition. The deadline for receipt of applications is May 31, 2011. Winners of this competition will be notified by August 1, 2011. A subsequent competition is planned for 2012.

 

Applicants must submit a completed application form, research proposal, and CV to airesearch@cigionline.org on or before the deadline. Application forms can be…

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Over 330,000 people in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province are challenged by low water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) coverage. Although WASH service delivery is the responsibility of local governments in Zambia, most lack capacity to deliver sustainable services. SNV Zambia and UNICEF Zambia jointly built local government capacity to operate and maintain 390 new boreholes, rehabilitate water points and expand sanitation coverage.

 

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Local ownership of…

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