Holding Southern Governments to Account

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Holding Southern Governments to Account

• Eurodad Annual Conference
• Berlin, October 2006)
• Tennyson Williams
• ActionAid-Sierra Leone

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Introduction

• Emphasis in AAIs Strategies RTEP AAI2
• Linking Power, Injustice and Poverty
• Acting Locally and Globally
• Human Rights Based Approach seeking conceptual
  clarity
  
• Prioritizing a Womens Rights Agenda
• Working in Partnership
• Challenging Neo-liberalism and holding national
  and world leaders to account
  

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Experiences

• Interface and Interaction between State and
  Non-State Actors
  
• The PRSP development process
• Civic engagement process
• CSOs and citizens consultation and
  participation
  
• and priority setting
• From design to implementation
• Confronting the Contradictions Privatisation of
  24 state-owned companies including Guma Valley
  Water Company
  
• The role of donors and government Consultative
  Group Meeting Development Partners Committee.
  
• The role of CSOs and citizens

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Experiences Strategies

• The Decentralisation process
• Justification for the action
• Whose agenda is it? Donors or government?
• Role of Technical Assistance
• Role of CSOs and Citizens
• Competence and capacity building?
• Devolution Vs De-concentration?
• The relevant policy frameworks
• Ensuring power, control and ownership?

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Experiences

• The Fight Against Corruption
• Whose agenda is it? And who is leading?
• What is the approach?
• The Anti-Corruption Commission and lessons
  learnt
  
• The role of Technical Assistants
• The role of citizens and CSOs

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Experiences

• Aid Effectiveness
• The PRGF debate
• The run-up to Gleneagles G8 leaders
• Pre and Post Consultative Group meeting held in
  London, 2005 Role of World Bank/other donors
  
• Trade justice campaign
• Real Aid (Making Technical Assistance work)
• Confronting the IFIs
• Impact of IMF conditionalities on achieving
  Education MGDs
  
• Conditionality, Debt and Governance campaign
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Experiences Strategies

• Tending Towards General Budget Support
• Whose agenda is it? Donors government
• The obvious missing link centrality of budgets
  as a tool for poverty reduction
  
• Role of CSOs and citizens
• Capacity building Economic Literacy in Budget
  Accountability and Governance (ELBAG) training
  

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Experiences Strategies

• Demanding Increased Accountability and Citizens
  Participation
  
• Budget tracking work
• ELBG training local councils, CSOs, citizens
• Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) reports
  the findings and actions
  
• Abuja 15 budget tracking exercise meeting the
  commitment on the health sector sending
  

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Thank You