Social Accountability in Africa : Practitioners' Experiences and Lessons.

Social Accountability in Africa: Practitionersí Experiences and Lessons is a collection of case studies from Africa on social accountability. This collection attempts to build a consolidated body of knowledge on social accountability efforts across the continent. The case studies are diverse and pre...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Claasen, Mario (Editor), Alpin-Lardies, Carmen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Institute for Democracy in South Africa 2010
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Controlling power Africans views on Governance, citizen ship and Accountability
  • Section 1. CIVIL SOCIETY-LED ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Chapter 1. Seeking Social Accountability fromprovincial Governmentin South Africa
  • Chapter 2. Ensuring Social Accountability in timesof political crisis in Kenya
  • Chapter 3. Using the media to Advance Social Accountability in Uganda
  • Chapter 4. Monitoring ourselves the African peer review mechanism (Aprm) as a catalyst for Accountability
  • Section 2. Government-Led Accountability
  • Chapter 3. The role of the ombudsman inensuring an Accountable public Service malawis experience
  • Chapter 6. Parliamentary oversight of the hivand AidS pandemic the caseof mozambique
  • Chapter 7. Improving public Service delivery
  • Chapter 8. Leveraging State Accountability
  • Section 3. Working in Partnership
  • Chapter 9. Developing civil Societys budget monitoring capacity of hiv and Aids resources in Southern and eastern Africa
  • Chapter 10. The Local Governance barometer -measuring Governance in madagascar
  • Chapter 11. Activating citizens through community-based planning
  • Chapter 12. Towards an enabling environment for Social Accountability in Kenya
  • Chapter 13. Monitoring resource Flows in decentralising African States
  • Conclusion
  • Contributors
  • Back Cover.