For people interested in transparency, these are very interesting times. The last few years have seen a flurry of new international initiatives aimed at promoting transparency in a variety of areas of government action. The Open Government Partnership, launched in 2011, already has over 50 member governments who have undertaken to promote transparency and openness and to allow for independent reviews of their efforts.
Tax is a hotly debated issue in the run-up to the G8 summit in June 2013, with western media featuring headline news on tax avoidance every day: Starbucks, Google, Apple.
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Pakistan has emerged on the other side of its first attempt to transfer power from one civilian government to another through the ballot box (relatively) successfully.
A round-table learning about what works and what doesn't work for holding governments to account through direct citizen engagement in Africa, based on the experiences of the Mwananchi Programme.