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A school building in Putik Central School in Zamboanga has large cracks in its walls and was declared unsafe, but was not renovated; 5,000 students shared 2 toilets in Araullo High School in Manila; students in Santa Fe Central School in Leyte shared a classroom that also “triples” as a home economics classroom and a variety store. But in little more than a year, things have...
Mr. Dondon Parafina, Network Coordinator of ANSA-EAP, will present the accomplishments and lessons learned by checkmyschool this past year in a brown bag lunch (BBL) at the World Bank office in Washington DC on May 1, 2012 (10:00 - 11:30* AM EST). Check My School( checkmyschool.org ) is an interactive platform and a comprehensive database on the government's education services that allows...
Case Study on Textbook Count Released
A new case study on the Textbook Count Program by the G-Watch Project of the Ateneo School of Government was released by the Partnership for Transparency Fund . The Textbook Count Program is a formal partnership between the Departnment of Education (DepEd) and the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG) that helps ensure the timely distribution of the correct quantity and quality of textbooks...
World Bank Creates Global Partnership for...
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved in principle the creation of a Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA). The GPSA is a new mechanism to scale up and support social accountability by beneficiary groups and civil society organizations (CSOs) in developing countries. The Bank’s Board will review operational details of the proposed Partnership in June....
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SAc in EI workshop feature in Luta Hamutuk blog
Luta Hamutuk Institute featured the " Promoting Social Accountability in Extractive Industry " workshop conducted by ANSA-EAP with Luta Hamutuk Institute and Revenue Watch International. The ANSA-EAP article on the workshop can be read here .
ANSA-Arab World (ANSA-AW) launched
The Affiliated Network for Social Accountability - Arab World (ANSA-AW) was launched last Thursday in Rabat , with the presence of seven Arab countries' representatives including Yemen. The ANSA is a global initiative, sponsored by the World Bank, aimed at promoting and sustaining concepts and activities of social accountability in many countries. In 2006, the network was established in...
Procurement Innovation Webinar
On March 21, 2012 at 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. EDT / 13:30 - 14:30 GMT, the World Bank Institute will be holding the Procurement Innovation Challenge Webinar that will feature procurement innovations presented by the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia and the Pacific (ANSA-EAP), the World Bank Institute (WBI) and the Procurement Innovation Challenge Early Entry Award Winner, Dr....
Checkmyschool cited by World Bank
The checkmyschool.org was cited by the World Bank as one of eight ICT initiatives in the East Asia and the Pacific Region that grabbed their attention.
Share your Procurement Innovation
The World Bank Institute (WBI) in partnership with UN Procurement Capacity Development Centre (UNPCDC) , Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with the financial support of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) , Public Procurement Research Group of the University of Nottingham , and Making Integrity Work (Tiri) are pleased to...
