How do we – organizations and individuals working to strengthen transparency, accountability, and participation – more effectively fight corruption? For many of us, this is perhaps the perennial question. In recent decades, we’ve seen that there are many different ways of doing ‘something’ about corruption, with anti-corruption practitioners and social movements trying a diverse set…
originally published on Open Gov Hub After months of work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Open Gov Stories: A Global Podcast Series today while we’re attending the 6th Annual Open Government Partnership Summit (in Ottawa, Canada)! Open Gov Stories explore a simple question: Why Do You Care About Changing the World? This…
It’s been great to see a number of the members of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative publish updated strategies over the last couple of years, with these strategies helping to shape the evolution of the transparency and accountability agenda. We’ve been happy to provide feedback on DFID’s “Open Aid, Open Societies” strategy (here), on the…
A couple of weeks ago I posted a question to the AdaptDev and Pelican [Platform for Evidence-based Learning and Communication for Social Change) communities about Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Maps (M/E/L Maps). Here’s what I asked: I had an idea last week about producing “M/E/L maps” to help us track, reflect on, and communicate (internally…
Marc-André Boisvert Catherine Easton We just released the provisional data for our 2019 Africa Integrity Indicators. With seven years of project data, covering 13 governance themes across all 54 African countries, Global Integrity has produced a wealth of information. Our robust methodology, built on data collection methods and quality control processes that can be applied…
originally published on Open Gov Hub I recently had the privilege to attend the 2nd Unrig the System Summit organized by Represent Us in Nashville, TN – an energizing and unique gathering bringing together America’s cross-partisan democracy reform movement. Over 3 days, I joined 2,000 other attendees from every state in the Union who all…
