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Development & Accountability

Development & Accountability. New opportunities for Civil Society. Overview. Taking stock: Where are we in promoting development accountability Old & new strategies for advancing citizen participation in decision-making & the prevention of corruption

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Development & Accountability

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  1. Development & Accountability New opportunities for Civil Society

  2. Overview Taking stock: Where are we in promoting development accountability Old & new strategies for advancing citizen participation in decision-making & the prevention of corruption Outlook: What can we build on – what needs to be done differently

  3. Achievements for CSO Participation • Agreement on central concerns: human rights, transparency and accountability • Stronger recognition of civil society role (AAA) • Openings for civil society participation in policy and implementation • Central role of citizens and legislatures

  4. Challenges • Legitimacy and accountability in question • Shrinking space (Civicus, Budget Aid) • Capacity • Competition • Limited impact on mainstream

  5. Approaches to citizen participation • Different engagement strategies: timing, style, focus – upstream/downstream, partners • Demanding rights and accountability • Negotiating inclusion in planning / monitoring • Focusing on legal frameworks, horizontal accountability mechanisms • Giving a voice: Speaking for or with citizens

  6. Challenges • Exclusion of political and social movements • Pro-forma inclusion in decision-making • Social accountability vs . political accountability • Power structures and backlash • Domestic solidarity ?

  7. The Corruption-Democracy-Poverty link The corruption of democratic processes results in unequal development The empowered democratic participation of the poor prevents the dominance of the interests of a few over the many

  8. Strengthening links • Strengthening the democratic dialogue within societies • Embedding strategies in the operational mainstream of decision-making • Addressing jointly the separate debates on political rights, social and economic empowerment and human rights

  9. Political Representation today

  10. TI‘s approach to corruption in development Addresses: the accountability of political and administrative representatives to citizens Uses: a rights based approach Negotiates: participation in decision-making that converts election promises to development deliverables Instruments: MoUs, Pledges, DIPs

  11. Example of 2 tools Development Integrity Pacts • Citizen participation in political processes • Bargaining power based on basic political rights Partnerships for Change • Citizen participation in administrative processes • Bargaining power depends on laws or administrative provisions, aid modalities etc.

  12. Development Integrity Pacts • Pacts between citizens and political representatives on development promises • Shaping and covering all links of the decision-making chain Containing concrete time-bound commitments on: • institutionalised, informed & inclusive participation • institutional reforms to mainstream incentives for accountability (decentr., SEZ, MCA, MoU)

  13. Steps in the creation of a DIP LEAP Content: Procedural: Agreement on integrity in decision -making Substantive: Development priorities of the poor Screen & identify partners Determining the Process Dialogues and negotiations between citizens and administrative or political representatives Build Citizen Capacity To exercise rights and negotiate development commitments Facilitation, Neutrality & Monitoring Negotiate as part of the DIP a self-monitoring mechanism along with an arbitration procedure between community and representatives to ensure DIP commitments are delivered Advocacy for Replication Maintain high public scrutiny and create demand for more DIPs by citizens and administrative or political representatives Identify NGOs to partner with Possible fields: Rights to land, water, forest, access to clean water, health, education, credit, markets… Identify organized CBOs, federations, etc. TI involvement as Facilitator

  14. Partnerships for Change • Pacts based on legal/adm. frameworks between citizens and administrations • Covering decision-making from policy to implementation and monitoring Examples of commitments: • Citizen, community, CSO participation (Round tables, SPSP, Pov.Obs., PRSPs)

  15. Outlook • Working more effectively with others • Complementarities (politial access & constitutencies) • Examples of ongoing dialogues (Kenya, India) • Learning from your experiences – networks, strategies, tactics • Arriving at ideas to strengthen impact – using DIPs as the envelope to scale up existing pilots?

  16. Group Work • Sharing how impact could be achieved • What role networks played • What accountability relations were addressed • What made the difference

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