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They came from all corners, men and women, to re-focus the world’s attention on investing in women’s health and rights as a key to a more sustainable world for all. Over 4,000 academics, advocates, global health practitioners, policymakers, and storytellers, descended on Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia, May 28-30, to shine a collective spotlight on the importance of building a better world for women and girls.

Hailed by the organizers as “the…

I wrote this article in the build up to the Busan conference but I thought I would share it.

Richard Ssewakiryanga

November 2011

This year, 2011 will see the end of the Paris Declaration, which for the last 5 years has set out the key principles that should guide aid effectiveness if the world is to reach the millennium development goals.  Ministers of development, Finance Ministers, Heads of bilateral and multilateral organizations will…

The meeting to establish the Regional Community of Practice on Results of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Africa (COMESA CoP) was held from May 14-17, 2013, in Lusaka, Zambia, bringing together more that one hundred and fifty participants from Eastern and Southern African countries. A…

KIGARAMA, BURUNDI — In three short years, nurse Benigne Nkunzimana helped engineer a turnaround of the health center here. Nestled in the mountainous, rural Ngozi province, the clinic used to close every day at 3:30 p.m., even when patients were still waiting to be served, because nurses weren’t allowed to work overtime. It constantly had a shortage of medications, including antibiotics, because it took at least a month to receive district authorization for each purchase. Nurses were paid so…

From 11 to 13 of December 2012, a hundred delegates from across Africa and beyond met in Tunis to set up an African Platform for Results, as well as launch a new framework for action to mainstream Managing for Development Results (MfDR) across the continent and enhance regional integration,…

Since 2005, the African Development Bank Group, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank Group, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Islamic Development Bank Group, and the World Bank Group have collectively…

1. The African Development Bank (AfDB) granted an amount of UA 9.00 million to support the multinational project for building capacity on managing development results (MfDR) in the regional member countries (RMCs) and the regional economic communities (RECs) (AfCoP Project). This project is…

The South African Monitoring and Evaluation (SAMEA) invites you to take part in the call for abstract to join its 4th Biennial Conference to be held at the Hilton Hotel Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa, from 16 to 20 September 2013. This event is co-hosted by SAMEA, DPME and PSC under the theme Meaningful…

By Blair Glencorse and Narayan Adhikari. The Right to Information (RTI) or Freedom of Information (FoI) movement has made huge strides since the first FoI law was enacted in Sweden in 1766. Freedom of Information was included (as Article 19) in the …

Yes, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Jonathan Goodluck in his continuation of efforts to enhance performance, transparency and accountability in the conduct of Federal Government activities signed performance agreements with all his Ministers. The Performance Contract System,  is expected to be reviewed with the President every six months.

This is the first step in the right direction in governance in Nigeria for a long time now. The Nigerian people  expect the…

To guide your country in establishing its own Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results, the AfCoP Core Management Team shares with you the key steps to create an effective organization that will help drive the results agenda. These steps are described in the Guidelines available by clicking…

The AfCoP project aims to support the African Community of Practice for Managing for Development Results (AfCoP) to mainstream MfDR into the policies and strategies of the RMCs. It will also enhance the capacity of the RECs and their member countries to accelerate the implementation of regional policies and programs…

Last week at the OpenGovHub- the Accountability Lab’s home- we listened to two heavyweights in the fight against corruption: Frank Vogl, Co-founder of both Transparency International and The Partnership for Transparency Fund; and…

Please see here under an invitation to a blended-learning training on development and statistics:

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Subject: Invitation blended-learning training "World of Development and the Role of Statistics"

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The Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale…

Spending time on the ground in countries like Liberia and Nepal, it soon becomes clear that despite good intentions, we still have very little idea how best to support the accountability of power-holders to citizens. There are hundreds of organizations working on corruption, transparency and accountability (words which…

CLEAR-SHIPDET is offering a technical course at the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Center (AFDC). This course introduces impact evaluation as a key instrument for determining project/program effectiveness, informing policy development and improving program designs. It covers commonly used econometric and statistical methods to evaluate the impacts of social and other programs in developing countries.…