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‘Citizens' Report on Governance and Development 2010' released
NEW DELHI: The number of Bills passed by Parliament declined from 47 in 2008 to 41 in 2009; more than 40 lakh cases were pending in State High Courts by December 31 last year. Many such findings were released here on Tuesday in the “Citizens' Report on Governance and Development 2010” by the National Social Watch.
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03/15/2011
Curbing Procurement Corruption
By PRANAV BHATTARAI
Public procurement is a lucrative area for business and corruption as well. It is estimated that approximately 70 percent of the central government expenditure in every country is spent through procurement or contracts annually.
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03/13/2011
Automating Public Procurement
By Pranav Bhattarai
Developing countries are making efforts to modernize their procurement system with the use of web-based technologies. Many governments worldwide have adopted e-procurement as a great leap toward promoting e-government.
Source: Republica
03/03/2011
Making Procurement Socially Accountable
By Md Shafiul Alam
Public procurement, that accounts for over three billion US dollars a year, is an important area of governance in the country. Transparency, accountability, fair competition and equal treatment to all are the essence of public procurement. The use of public money in the process calls for strict adherence to the Public Procurement Act (PPA) 2006 and the Public Procurement Rules (2008).
Source: The Financial Express
01/30/2011
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ANSA Overview
The Affiliated Networks for Social Accountability (ANSA) are an initiative to promote, strengthen and sustain social accountability knowledge and praxis globally. Social Accountability refers to the ways and means in which citizens can hold public institutions accountable in terms of delivering public services, improving people's welfare and protecting people's rights and entitlements. Funded by the World Bank Institute, currently there are three regional ANSA hubs – Africa, East Asia Pacific, and South Asia, as well as a Global Seed Fund component to promote ANSA in different regions.
The primary objective of ANSA-SAR & the Global Partnership Fund is to enhance and scale up social accountability and governance initiatives in the South Asia Region and globally. The network aims to achieve this through the following:
- Providing project grants to civil society organizations,
- Conducting and disseminating research to advance the field of social accountability
- Building capacities and competencies within both state and civil society institutions
In its first year, ANSA-SAR & GPF has disbursed grants to civil society organizations from seven countries, namely Argentina, Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Kyrgyz Republic, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. For more information see PARTNERS.
In terms of conducting and disseminating research, ANSA-SAR & GPF has already prepared and published discussion notes and manuals on various social accountability issues. For more information, see KNOWLEDGE MATERIALS
ANSA-SAR & GPF has also conducted several capacity building and training workshops for its partners as well as state actors. For details see WORKSHOPS
Through these activities, ANSA-SAR & GPF attempts to build and strengthen a community of practice around social accountability. One of the ways in which this is sustained is a knowledge-sharing platform known as the FORUM.
The above mentioned activities of ANSA-SAR & GPF are informed by a well-thought out strategy. The strategy for South Asia Region is to connect an active but highly dispersed community of practitioners and enabling practices and facilitate cross learnings and exchanges. For the Global component, the seed funds will be used to stimulate discourses and start-up activities in regions where social accountability practices are in its infancy. For details go to STRATEGY
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