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Using information and communication technologies to improve service delivery

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 30 September 2013

Tanzania based Twaweza's new initiative, Voices of Citizens, uses mobile phones to regularly collect information from a broad cross-section of Tanzanian citizens in order to aid policy makers, and inform the public about what's going on. In this podcast, Leni Wild interviews Mushi Elvis Leonard - a researcher based at Twaweza - and explores how the survey works as well as how the findings are communicated and used to create change.

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MY World: listening to 1 million voices

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 25 September 2013

MY World is a global survey about people’s priorities. Less than a year ago, ODI became one of the founding partners, after it was devised by me and Paul Ladd of UNDP. Out of a list of 16 options, people are asked to choose the six that are most important for themselves and their families. There’s also space for people to add a 17th option, if there’s something important that they think isn’t captured by the existing options.

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Rethinking social accountability in Africa: lessons from the Mwananchi Programme

Publication - Research reports and studies - 5 September 2013

Fletcher Tembo

Despite economic progress in Africa, rising inequality is slowing the rate at which growth delivers better services to poor people. This report presents lessons from the Mwananchi Programme's five years implementing social accountability projects across six African countries.

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Rethinking social accountability in Africa - a visual summary

Publication - Infographic - 5 September 2013

Fletcher Tembo

'Rethinking social accountability in Africa: lessons from the Mwananchi Programme' is a major new report exploring how social accountability programmes can help ordinary citizens in Africa hold their governments to account. Read the visual summary.

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Budget transparency in Uganda

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 28 August 2013

Tim Williamson, who heads up the Budget Strengthening Initiative’s (BSI) work in Uganda and South Sudan , has over many years has worked closely with the Ugandan Government to improve the effectiveness, transparency and accountability of public financial management in Uganda.

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July Podcast: democracy, Mali election, aid and the military

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 24 July 2013

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On one side, Malala. Allied on the other - the Taliban and tax avoidance

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 July 2013

'A 16-year-old school girl has shown the world what Pakistan’s future could look like. Perhaps the Pakistani Government could take a leaf out of Malala’s book and demonstrate the resolve and ambition needed to make education a right for all children in the country.'

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Transition in Egypt

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 8 July 2013

'Events developing in Egypt over the past year show us that democracy is more than a box-ticking exercise.'

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G8 leaders must do more than talk a tough game on multinational tax avoidance

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 17 June 2013

'Eight years on Britain has changed. Comeback gigs are so common they’re practically passé and politicians appear reluctant to talk about aid at all. If you stopped the next person you saw in the street and asked them what we might expect from the summit, the answer would probably be ‘what summit?’.'

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Shining a light on land deals: sharing lessons for transparency

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 14 June 2013

The ‘3Ts’ of the G8 summit – tax, trade and transparency – are interlinked, especially through the axis between transparency and tax, as Kevin Watkins outlines. Discussions on tax are bringing to light the hidden worlds of corporate tax avoidance and tax evasion by individuals, whereas – led by the UK – the transparency agenda is focusing on land, open data and extractives.

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