Open Doors 2012

A Regional Conference for Procurement Practitioners in East Asia-Pacific Crowne Plaza-Holiday Inn, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 16-18 January 2012 The Open Doors 2009 Regional Forum on Procurement Monitoring successfully convened what was to become the social accountability (SAc)...

Checkmyschool.org Evaluates 2011 Operations, Launches “Operation Thank You”

Initiated by the National Team of Checkmyschool.org (CMS), an assessment of CMS operations for 2011 and the outcomes of the Synchronized Community Validation of School Information was conducted at El Cielito Inn in Baguio City from 28 to 31 October 2011. CMS Infomediaries from all over the...

ANSA-EAP facilitates “Workshop on Communication and Participatory Governance”...

Forty-four governors of aimags (provinces) and soums (municipalities) took part in a three-day face-to-face Workshop on Communication and Participatory Local Governance organized by CommGAP, the East Asia Pacific (EAP) Regional Governance Hub, the World Bank Institute (WBI) and the World...

Social accountability in action

This is the seventh and final column in this series (written with the research assistance of my brilliant collaborator Christian Laluna) where we explore the concept of social accountability: what it means, what it entails from its practitioners, and what its potential benefits are to...

Social accountability and leadership

In this sixth of seven columns on social accountability, I explore the costs of social accountability. The truth is the greatest benefits often ask for the corresponding price. Public policies such as government fiscal stability, land reform, universal health care, education, and the like could...