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…
Continuing the series of blogs on learnings derived from CTAP – COVID-19 Transparency and accountability in Africa: our work and reflections to date and The struggles to get and use data on COVID-19 funds in Africa – we want to next focus on coalition building and communications to COVID-19 restrictions, closing civic space, and prioritizing…
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…
