By Alan Hudson, Executive Director, November 15th 2016 Nathaniel Heller, our former boss, who now leads on governance-related issues at Results for Development, recently published an important piece, in which he encouraged the open government movement to move beyond arguments that open government is the “right thing to do” and to pay more attention…
By Michael Moses, Director, Advocacy & Programs, Global Integrity, November 1, 2016 How might international actors, from donors to INGOs, do a better job of supporting the impact and effectiveness of their in-country partners? Might a different approach to designing and implementing projects – one that aims to incorporate structured cycles of trying, learning, and adapting throughout…
Tracking state-level developments in campaign finance By Azeezat Adeleke, Sunlight Foundation, September, 23 2016 – The contents of this blog and the underlying research are the result of a partnership between Global Integrity and the Sunlight Foundation in relation to the State Integrity Investigation. This is the third post of a series of four – tracking…
By Alan Hudson, Executive Director, Global Integrity, September 14, 2016. 1. We welcome the focus of the WDR for 2017 (overview here, full report here) on governance and the law, and the clear acknowledgement that politics is central to development. There is huge value in having the World Bank’s flagship report lead with this message.…
By Michael Moses, Director, Advocacy & Programs, Global Integrity, September 13, 2016 The Combating Global Corruption and Ensuring Accountability Act of 2016 (CGCEA), sponsored by Senator Ben Cardin, is ambitious and well intentioned. It aims to reduce corruption abroad and improve the transparency of US foreign assistance, both laudable goals. However, numerous critics, from Assistant Secretary…
By Alan Hudson, Executive Director As regular readers will know, we’ve been making the case that adaptive learning — a structured approach to learning by doing — should be central to the open governance agenda, and is central to our strategy, for more than 18 months (See for instance: here, here, here, here, here, here,…