We don’t usually crosspost but this recent piece by my colleague Elsa Peraldi, published last week on the National Endowment for Democracy’s Power 3.0 blog, warrants an exception: In her post about IMF emergency lending to Equatorial Guinea, Elsa highlights a key tension—a recurring systemic failure—of how our multilateral development system and the financial flows…
At times, September saw me overwhelmed by the issues I was exploring, the things I’ve been reading, and my engagement in a range of inspiring and overlapping conversations, including those relating to the forthcoming Summit on Democracy and USAID’s Anti-Corruption Taskforce. But, by the end of the month – with the support of some automatic…
Earlier this week, we had a conversation with a range of CSO leaders from the “Global South” to hear feedback on Hewlett’s new TPA Strategy. They included Anca Matioc, Founder and Executive Director of La Sobremesa, Oluseun Onigbinde, Director and Co-Founder of BudgIT, Alfredo Elizondo, Executive Director of GESOC A.C , Fabrizio Scrollini, Executive director…
The disparity of the government response to COVID-19 and the lack of disaggregated data on expenditures directed towards recovery has made it hard to track the effectiveness of service delivery. To close this gap, the CTAP project looks at the allocation of emergency resources by seven African governments (Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Liberia, Nigeria, and…
This August we welcomed Andrew Haupt as Global Integrity’s new Managing Director of Finance and Operations. As we grow our organization and diversify our portfolio away from core funding, we know that further strengthening our processes for financial management will help us continue to build forward. Andrew comes to the team with several decades of…
Grantees’ reports to funders are rarely shared with the public. We believe that sharing successes and failures can support learning and reflection that helps to strengthen the effectiveness of organizations facing similar challenges. It can also support greater accountability, to funders, and perhaps more importantly to those who that funding is intended to benefit. We’d…