A number of pieces caught my attention in April, clustered around localisation and the value of politically-informed, locally-led, adaptive responses (PILLAR, as Abt Associates put it) to complex development challenges. At Global Integrity, our strategy has since 2015 acknowledged the interconnectedness of these issues. We provide support that enables frontline actors to operate in learning-centered…
By Alan Hudson — January 21, 2016. Open governance is governance that puts into practice principles of transparency, participation and accountability. Proponents of open governance tend to make their case on the basis of two sets of arguments. Normative, or intrinsic value, arguments hold that open governance is a good thing in itself. The idea here…
Building Accountable and Accessible Health Systems for Better Pandemic Response On October 20th, we sat down to talk with three civil society experts involved in the COVID-19 Transparency and Accountability Project (CTAP) about their experiences implementing innovative approaches in to strengthen health systems in African countries: Nancy Saiboh the Program Lead at Actions for Development…
Image credit to UNDP’s Innovation Lab The highlight of May for me was attending the Systems Innovation Conference in London (agenda here) in person. As befits an event organized by the Systems Innovation Network, I connected with lots of great people doing innovative work on systems change! Another time I may be brave enough…
Authored by Alan Hudson We skipped sharing our open and adaptive reads last month. In addition to being stunned and appalled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the horrors that have unfolded, we were also busy with closing out the current phase of the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence program (GI-ACE), and disseminating the findings. There’s…
Author: Izabela Chmielewska Unlocking Corruption: Why did we host this event? On December 8th, 2021 we held a joint pre-summit event with the Open Government Partnership (OGP) centered around Unlocking Corruption: Frontline Perspectives on Locally Led Solutions. The recently concluded Summit for Democracy and the OGP Global Summit this month created ripe ground to convene…