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June 27 - July 9, 2013
[Webinar Recording]

Social Accountability and Context This event was organized by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (T/AI), with the support and participation of the World Bank Institute (WBI) and the Social Development Department (SDV). The speaker for this webinar session was Simon O'Meally (Governance Specialist at the World Bank). The event took place on Tuesday, July 9th, and had participants from several regions. The aim of this session was to present the latest research on social accountability and context, which was completed recently by SDV (you can download the document here). This research addresses two core questions i) What do we know about the critical contextual factors that matter? and ii) What are the practical implications? To watch the webinar recording, please click here.
[Event Recording]

BBL: Improving Public Contracting with Civil Society (June 18, 2013) If you were unable to attend this session, organized by the World Bank Institute (WBI) and the Social Development Department (SDV), you can still watch the online recording and download the material. This session featured presentations from CSO participation in procurement monitoring in Mongolia, the Open Contracting Book Sprint and lively open space discussions on monitoring tools and approaches and coalition building. The presenters were Otgonjargal Norovjav, Procurement Expert, Public Procurement Partnership in Mongolia, Zahid Hasnain, Senior Public Sector Specialist, EAP PREM, Adam Hyde, Founder, Book Sprints and Claire Schouten, Programme Director for the Network for Integrity in Reconstruction, Integrity Action. To download the material you can visit the Open Contracting Community of Practice website: http://pro-act.org/. To watch the recording, please click here. To read the blog post "Book Sprint: Writing and Open Contracting Guide in Five Days", please click here. To read the document "Open Contracting A guide for practitioners by practitioners", please click here.
[Document]

Citizen Participation in Latin America: Innovations to Strengthen Governance Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA), a knowledge sharing and learning platform, funded by the UK Department for International Development, published the document "Citizen Participation in Latin America: Innovations to strengthen governance". From small communities in rural Mexico to urban metropolises in Brazil and Colombia, citizen participation initiatives have emerged to improve policies, laws and the public agenda to ultimately enhance accountability and social justice. Citizen participation initiatives have become increasingly common throughout the region. These initiatives, promoted both by governments and civil society, have sought to strengthen governance, enhance accountability and control, and improve social justice, ensuring that governments funds and policies address relevant social issues and benefit socially excluded groups. To read the full document, please click here.

[WB Blog]

Targeting Transparency Anupama Dokeniya (Governance Specialist in the Public Sector Governance Group at the World Bank) is the author of this article in the "People, Spaces, Deliberation" blog. In this blog post, the author starts by providing a background of transparency, anticorruption and access to information as part of the development agenda. Then she describes the important role of these issues in the post-2015 agenda, and how this can help to better understand the impact of measures that aim at improving transparency and reducing corruption. To read the full blog post, please click here.
[Resource]

Asia Knowledge and Innovation Lab (AKIL) The AKIL group is an open collective of development oriented individuals interested in promoting and supporting existing ICT initiatives. AKILs objective is to straddle the gap between tech hype and tech reality while providing direction as to how best to advance development goals to i)Publish useful data in open data formats for broad use and accountability ii)Better utilize mobile solutions to strengthen monitoring and information sharing iii) Seek innovations outside of our regular comfort zone via private sector and developer community. To learn more about this initiative and sign up for the AKIL newsletter, please click here.
[Recap]

Missed a previous "Weekly Highlights"? You can still find them online! If you subscribed recently to the Social Accountability Community of Practice, or if you missed one of our emails, you can still see the newsletter online. Click on the links below to see the pdf version of previous Newsletters: Highlights on Social Accountability, from June 18 to June 26, 2013 Highlights on Social Accountability, from June 5 to June 17, 2013 Highlights on Social Accountability, from May 28 to June 4, 2013 Highlights on Social Accountability, from May 18 to May 27, 2013 Highlights on Social Accountability, from May 10 to May 17, 2013 Highlights on Social Accountability, from May 1 to May 10, 2013 Highlights on Social Accountability, from April 23 to May 1, 2013 Highlights on Social Accountability, from April 15 to April 22, 2013

The SA&DFGG team would like to thank Marcos Mendiburu (WBISG), Luiza Nora (SASDS), Norma Garza (WBIOG), Anupama Dokeniya (PRMPS) and Charles Reese Brigham (EASID) for their contribution to this Weekly Highlights. Please send us any information you would like us to share through the weekly highlights of the Social Accountability Community of Practice! All inputs are appreciated and recognition will be given in this section.

How-To Notes Series on Social Accountability

Feedback Matters: Designing Effective Grievance Redress Mechanisms (Part 1: Theory) ---Feedback Matters: Designing Effective Grievance Redress Mechanisms (Part 2: Practice) ---Citizen Charters: Enhancing Service Delivery through Accountability ---Citizen Service Centers: Enhancing Access, Improving Service Delivery, and Reducing Corruption ---How, When, and Why to Use Demand-Side Governance Approaches ---Rapid Feedback: The Role of Community Scorecards in Improving Service Delivery ---Citizen Report Cards - Monitoring Citizen Perspectives to Improve Service Delivery ---Using Demand Side Governance Approaches to Identify and Manage Risks in Projects ---Participatory and Third Party Monitoring in World Bank Financed Projects: What Can Non-state Actors (NSAs) Do? ---Mapping Context for Social Accountability

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