IMPROVING GOVERNANCE

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IMPROVING GOVERNANCE

• The PAC Story
• (1994-2008)

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS CENTRE

• VISION
• Improving the Quality of Governance in India
• MISSION STATEMENT
• IDENTIFY AND PROMOTE INITIATIVES THAT FACILITATE
  A PRO-ACTIVE ROLE BY CITIZENS TO ENHANCE THE
  LEVEL OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY AND PERFORMANCE
• A KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN - ACTION SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

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What are our Values Principles?
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Our Approaches

• Knowledge generation for reform / informed
  advocacy
• Mobilization of stakeholders
• Defined Terms of Engagement
• Networking
• Adaptability
• Capacity / Competency / Capability building
• Holistic
• Rights Based (Demand Side)

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Our Competencies

• Service delivery assessments
• ME Public programmes
• Policy research
• Action research
• Informed advocacy campaigns
• Citizenship Education
• Coalition building
• Project management
• Toolkits Manuals
• Spontaneity Innovation

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How we organize our work

• Public Policy Research Group
• Participatory Governance Research Group
• Citizen Action Support Advocacy Group
• Administration Finance
• Management

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Public Policy Research Group

• Conduct systematic research on sectoral and
  inter-sectoral issues to influence policy and
  implementation
• Relationship between finances service delivery
• Critique of the JNURM
• Institutional arrangements for service delivery
• Norms for urban public services

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Participatory Governance Research Group

• Widen and deepen application of social
  accountability tools and concepts
• Flagship product Citizen Report Cards
• New tools and concepts

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Citizen Report Cards

• Pioneering application in Bangalore in 1993
  Repeated benchmarks 1999 2004
• Widening applications Sectoral, Rural,
  National, Programmatic (PDS, SSA)
• Building capacity of partners to design
  implement CRCs
• Innovating e-Learning Modules to scale-up CRCs

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Other Research

• An Agenda for Combating Corruption in India
• Analyses of Municipal Budgets, Industrial
  Environment, Power Tariff..
• Assessment of Public Interest Litigation as an
  Advocacy Tool
• Analysis of The Affidavits Filed by the Elected
  Parliamentarians of the new Lok Sabha
• Towards Citizen Centric Governance An Agenda
  for Action. Recommendations submitted to the
  Second Administrative Commission

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Citizen Action Support Advocacy Group

• Develop replicable models tools to strengthen
  systematic and sustainable civic engagement
• Campaigns
• Audits
• Citizenship Education
• Networking

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Some Highlights

• Electoral Reforms Voter Awareness
• Monitoring the Quality of Road Works
• Childrens Movement For Civic Awareness
• Campaigning for Auditing the Right To
  Information Act
• Review Audit of Panchayat Jamabandi
• Coalition Against Corruption
• Empowering the Cutting Edges Strengthening
  Civic Engagement in Development Interventions

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International Partnership

• Successful co-applicant of the DFiDs Governance
  Transparency Fund
• Project Citizen Against Corruption covers
  South Asia
• 2 million grant to be spread over 40 projects
• PAC to provide technical support, supervision,
  evaluation, assimilation and dissemination
• Project commences on October 1, 2008

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Challenges, Strategies Vision

• Primacy of Innovation
• Networking Coalitions
• Documentation Dissemination
• Scaling up of citizen engagement models
• New research frontiers
• Retaining Attracting competent and motivated
  staff
• Expand funding sources
• Be recognized as the top CSO in the governance
  arena