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Breaking news:. Three ruling party MPs prosecuted for fraud. Transparency of resources for poverty. Effective budget decision-making and execution; Enhance parliamentary oversight, social contract Enable social accountability through citizen movements and civil society (eg Twaweza)

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  1. Breaking news: Three ruling party MPs prosecuted for fraud

  2. Transparency of resources for poverty • Effective budget decision-making and execution; • Enhance parliamentary oversight, social contract • Enable social accountability through citizen movements and civil society (eg Twaweza) • Reduce administration, overlap and waste; • Reduce corruption, enable money to be tracked • Predictable spending, coordinated programmes • Allow governments to manage own spending • Builds support for aid

  3. After the tsunami in Aceh “In February, in Riga (close to Calang) we had a case of measles, a little girl. Immediately, all epidemiologists of Banda Aceh came in, because they were afraid of a propagation of measles among displaced people, but the little girl recovered very fast. Then, we realized that this was not a normal case of measles and we discovered that this girl has received the same vaccine three times, from three different organizations. The measles symptoms were a result of the three vaccines she received.” El Pais (April 13, 2005, p. A2).

  4. International Aid Transparency Initiative • Agreed in 2008 • 18 donors, 50 percent of ODA • Others participating but not formally committed • Four components: • agreement on what will be published; • common definitions for sharing information ; • a common electronic data format; • a “code of conduct”. • On track to agree details during 2010 • Focused on aid, as part of broader picture

  5. International Aid Transparency Initiative • Relevant and accessible information for governments, parliamentarians, civil society, the media and citizens, • Accurate and meaningful information, not just statistics • Timely, forward looking, traceable, detailed, comprehensive • Include non-DAC donors, multilaterals, foundations and NGOs • Easy to understand, reconcile, compare, add up and read alongside other information sources • Electronically accessible, open format, legally open • Reduce duplicate reporting and bureaucracy

  6. Costs and benefits • Costs about $10-$30m • Benefits of (much?) more than $3 billion a year • Roughly equivalent to a 2-3% increase in aid • Efficiency gains cover costs in 1-2 years • Effectiveness gains cover costs in about a day • Conservative, but uncertain, estimates

  7. What you can do • African governmentsspeak out for transparency of donors • African citizensspeak out for your right to know • Foundations and NGOsCommit to implement too. Build capacity. • Donor countries: Commit to open data standards • Everyone:Get involved in the technical work.

  8. www.aidinfo.orgwww.aidtransparency.netowen@devinit.org

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