Crosspost: How Weak Multilateral Lending Standards Enable and Strengthen Kleptocracy (orig. NED’s Democracy’s Power 3.0 blog)

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We don’t usually crosspost but this recent piece by my colleague Elsa Peraldi, published last week on the National Endowment for Democracy’s Power 3.0 blog, warrants an exception: In her post about IMF emergency lending to Equatorial Guinea, Elsa highlights a key tension—a recurring systemic failure—of how our multilateral development system and the financial flows…

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Insights from CSO Leaders on Hewlett’s new TPA Strategy: A Global Conversation

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Earlier this week, we had a conversation with a range of CSO leaders from the “Global South” to hear feedback on Hewlett’s new TPA Strategy. They included Anca Matioc, Founder and Executive Director of La Sobremesa, Oluseun Onigbinde, Director and Co-Founder of BudgIT, Alfredo Elizondo, Executive Director of GESOC A.C , Fabrizio Scrollini, Executive director…

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How are civil society organizations in Africa tracking service delivery?

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The disparity of the government response to COVID-19 and the lack of disaggregated data on expenditures directed towards recovery has made it hard to track the effectiveness of service delivery.  To close this gap, the CTAP project looks at the allocation of emergency resources by seven African governments (Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Liberia, Nigeria, and…

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CTAP Learnings: Coalition building and strategic communications

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Continuing the series of blogs on learnings derived from CTAP – COVID-19 Transparency and accountability in Africa: our work and reflections to date and The struggles to get and use data on COVID-19 funds in Africa – we want to next focus on coalition building and communications to COVID-19 restrictions, closing civic space, and prioritizing…

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