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Highlights on Social Accountability

June 18 - 26, 2013
[Online Tool]

Social Accountability E-Guide The 'Social Accountability E-Guide' is now available to people within and outside the World Bank! This online tool provides a very comprehensive guide to the different tools for Social Accountability, including tool templates with the basic information, case studies and links to further resources and documents. This online resource, which offers a step-by-step approach to integrating social accountability (SA) mechanisms into projects, can be visited at https://saeguide.worldbank.org/.
[Recap: Learning Events]

Watch the recordings of Brown-Bag Lunch (BBLs) and Seminars online! This is a list of the events that we have had in the last couple of months, and that you can now watch online. Feel free to share the links with anyone who can benefit from them!
[May 28, 2013]

Increasing budget transparency at the subnational level - tales from two regions in Cameroon Speaker: Abakar Ahamat, Chair: Anand Rajaram, Discussant: Ivor Beazley. Click here to watch the online recording.
[May 9, 2013]

Social Accountability: How Context Matters Speaker: Simon C. O'Meally, Chair: Susan Wong, Discussants: Stuti Khemani, Robert S. Chase. Click here to watch the online recording.
[April 29, 2013] Independent Technical Review and Moving Forward: Indonesia PNPM Rural

Speaker: Susanne Holste, Chair: Janmejay Singh, Discussant: Dan Owen. Click here to watch the online recording.
[April 17, 2013]

Panel discussion: Update on the Global Partnership for Social Accountability Moderator: Susan Wong, Panelists: Jeff Thindwa, Lindsay Coates, Randson Mwadiwa, Izabella Toth. Click here to watch the online recording.
[April 9, 2013]

Building the Case for Social Accountability: Lessons from ANSA-South Asia Speaker: George Cheriyan, Chair: Jeff Thindwa, Discussants: Naimur Rahman, Janmejay Singh. Click here to watch the online recording.
[March 8, 2013]

Third Party Monitoring in Bank-Financed Projects: Implementation Tips and Emerging Lessons Speakers: Asli Gurkan, Warren van Wicklin, Bronwyn Grieve, Aguiratou Savadogo Tinto, Zahid Hasnain, Chair: Helene Grandvoinnet. Click here to watch the online recording.

[February 28, 2013]

Support to CSOs for Social Accountability through Dedicated Bank Projects: Challenges, Bottlenecks, Opportunities Chair: Janmejay Singh, Panelists: Sabine Beddies, Luiza Nora, Janelle Plummer, Per Wam. Click here to watch the online recording.
[February 28, 2013]

Social Accountability Community of Practice Meeting: What is Happening on the Ground? Speakers: Helene Grandvoinnet, Sarah Keener, Christopher Finch, Muqaddisa Mehreen. Chair: Asli Gurkan. Click here to watch the online recording.
[February 28, 2013]

Horizon Beyond Piloting Leveraging ICT for Citizen Feedback and Monitoring Speakers: Rob Baker. Moderator: Susan Wong. Panelists: Christopher Finch, Holly Krambeck. Click here to watch the online recording.
[January 29, 2013]

Listening to the Voices of Communities: Initial Results on Urban Planning from So Paulo, Brazil Speaker: Andre Leirner. Chair: Sameh Naguib Wahba. Discussants: Sarah Keener, Andre Herzog, Judy Baker. Click here to watch the online recording.

[Online Tool]

Participatory Methods This site, created by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), provides resources on a range of methods for inclusive social development. It explains what participatory methods are, where and how they have been used, their problems and potentials and the debates about them. The focus is on participatory approaches to strategic analysis and programme design, monitoring and evaluation. It also includes resources on participatory learning, research and communication in organizations, networks and communities. To visit the website, please go to http://www.participatorymethods.org/
[WB Blog]

Is Civil Society Uncivil? This blog post is a contribution of John Garrison (World Banks Civil Society Team, CST) to the World Bank blog "Public Sphere". In this blog post, the author talks about the relation between the World Bank and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). As the author explains, CSOs today work closely with the World Bank, and are included as an important part to provide feedback during the World Bank's spring meetings. Civil Society is not on the opposite side of the World Bank, as many people think. Rather, civil society participation at the Bank has become influential. To read this blog post, please click here.
[Blog]

Open Government, Feedback Loops, and Semantic Extravaganza Tiago Peixoto (WBIOG) writes this blog post, where he starts by explaining how some of the terminology related to open government seems to be mixed, and that there is no clarity on the meaning of each of the terms used - leading to people using them indifferently many times. While 'e-democracy', 'eparticipation', 'e-governance', 'government 2.0', and 'open government' are not exactly the same, there is no real consensus about what differentiates them. To read this blog post, please click here.

[Press Release]

G8 Highlights the need for accountability and transparency The G8 issued a press release, which highlights the key topics to move forward, following the 2013 meeting in Lough Erne. The document stresses the need for transparency in private companies, anti-money laundering measures, strengthening transparency in the extractive industries, through initiatives such as EITI (Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative), the need to increase access to information through Open Data and to enhance accountability. To read the full document, please click here.
[Blog]

Low-Tech Approaches to Open Government and Transparency Global Integrity started a new series of articles about open government and transparency using low-tech approaches. While the tools using ICT are well known, many countries need the use of low-tech approaches. To kick off this series, Global Integrity is trying to collect experiences from around the globe to identify these low-tech solutions. To read more about this initiative, and to provide your input, please click here.
[Newsletter]

Mobile Survey Empowers Citizens to Assess Justice Services in Niger The Open Development Technology Alliance (ODTA) blog features this article about the use of ICT in Niger. This technology allows, for example, a local store owner sends an SMS message containing the single word JUSTICE to the short code 311. Immediately he receives a series of messages asking him questions about the Niger Ministry of Justices hotline called Ligne Verte, or the Green Line, that was first launched in 2011. This simple solution allowed over 65 thousand Nigeriens to participate in improving the delivery of justice services for the first time by providing their feedback. To read this blog post, please click here.

The SA&DFGG team would like to thank Marcos Mendiburu (WBISG), Shilpa Banerji (PRMPS), and Tiago Peixoto (WBIOG) 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.

SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (SA CoP)

The SA CoP aims to increase collaboration and knowledge-sharing within the Bank on SA activities. SA practitioners with diverse backgrounds, expertise and geographic focus meet as a group usually every two months to discuss demand-side approaches on projects and to exchange strategies, knowledge, innovations and good practices. We invite you to join our growing group of SA practitioners - to do so, click on the button above or send an email to gochieng@worldbank.org.

OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES:

SA & DFGG Website and Resource Database Social Accountability E-Guide CDD-CoP Website CDD-CoP Sharepoint Site