Latest News in the GPSA Knowledge Platform

GPSA Knowledge Platform
Latest News in the GPSA
Knowledge Platform
What’s new in the KP
We now have more than
1,550 members!
Meet them here.
Our members at a glance
Paula Chies Schommer, an active member of the GPSA
Knowledge Platform, is enriching the debate and practice on
SAcc in Brazil by bringing the Platform’s debates and
experiencies to it.
Blog: Moving towards a strategic approach
to social accountability in post-conflict
contexts: the Tuungane experience in DR
Congo
By Isatou Batonon, former GPSA E-Learning
course participant
How does your organization help empowering
communities? Read and comment this blog post
on IRC’s experience implementing the
Tuungane program in eastern Democratic
Republic (DR) Congo, a community-driven
reconstruction programs.
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Coming soon
Paula is Professor and Researcher at the
Public Management Department in the
State University of Santa Catarina in
Southern Brazil. Paula joined the
Knowledge Platform to learn and
participate in the latest debates and trends
on social accountability (SAcc) and to
bring those to the Brazilian academic field.
In the last years, Paula has coordinated
research projects on citizen engagement,
social control, co-production of public
services, public management, and social
accountability. The Platform’s knowledge Exchange activities are
useful for enriching Paula’s and her colleagues’ research work at
the university and for enhancing her students’ knowledge on
accountability.
For Paula, SAcc is important
Paula considers that Brazil has a lot of experience to offer on
SAcc, particularly on social participation, social control and citizen
engagement. However, language and conceptual barriers limit the
possibility of bringing Brazilian researchers and practitioners’
experience to the Platform. This is because many Brazilian
researchers do not speak English and because SAcc does not
have an exact translation in Portuguese –they have called it “coproduction of control”. For this reason, Paula and her colleagues
at the university seek to become a bridge between Brazilian
researchers and the larger international SAcc community and are
committed to enrich the theory and practice on this theme in
Brazil. An example of their work is the Blog of the Politeia
Research Group from the State University of Santa Catarina that
they have launched on Co-production of Public Good:
Accountability and Management (in Portuguese).
Webinar: Funding, Learning and Impact: How
do grant-making practices help and hinder
real grantee learning?
June 3, 2015, 10:00-11:30 am EDT
In this webinar, Jenny Ross, author of a recent
report on funding practices and learning, will
present lessons about what works, what doesn’t
work, and what grant-makers and grantees can
do to support and enable learning.
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E-forum: Are we really learning? Making grant-making practices more
conducive to grantee learning
June 3-24, 2015
This E-forum, moderated by Charlotte Ornemark and Brendan Halloran, will
explore innovative learning practice, systems for learning (including grant making
practices, internal organizational systems etc.), and linking learning to impact.
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Other Updates
From Openness to Real
Accountability: the Role of MSIs
This short think piece outlines
several critical issues that multistakeholders initiatives (MSIs) must
address if they are to meaningfully
contribute to more accountable
governance.
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Toolkits: Open Budgets Capacity
Building Material
The materials presented in the IBP
website provide facilitators and
trainers with everything they'd need
to conduct a highly interactive and
informative workshop on using
budgets to enhance their advocacy
and research.
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GPSA BBL: When and How do
Digital Technologies Strengthen
Citizen Voice and Collective
Action?
May 26, 2015, 12:30 –2:00pm
This BBL will explore whether the
internet—shorthand for digital
technologies—has made
governments more accountable by
Grassroots to Global: Seven Steps
to Citizen-Driven Accountability
for the Sustainable Development
Goals
This report contains seven steps for
developing people-led accountability
to post-2015 goals to ensure that
people are reached and remain a
priority, by creating pathways for
Access to Information Working
Group Microgrant: Demonstrating
ATI Linkages to OGP Progress
Call for Applications
The OGP Access to Information
Working Group announced its call for
applications for research papers and
projects aimed at demonstrating the
importance of access to information
in order for countries to fulfill their
national action plans.
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Raising the Score - CARE’s
Community Score Card
This website documents the impact
of CARE’s Community Score Card
(CSC)© on improving maternal
health service in Malawi through
short videos.
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helping to strengthen citizen voice
and collective action.
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Summary: 2nd Annual World
Bank—International Ombudsman
Institute Roundtable:
The Role of Ombudsman Institutions
in Promoting Citizen-centric
Governance & Inclusive Institutions
them to help monitor if leaders are
delivering on promises.
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We would like to thank Besinati Mpepo, Brendan Halloran, Gaia Gozzo,
Justine Dupuy, Kevin Thibodeaux, and Paula Schommer for their
contribution to this Latest News.
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Don´t forget that you too can contribute to the Knowledge platform. Send us your
social accountability materials (toolkits, reports, videos, etc.), disseminate them in
the Networking Board. You can also send us the news and events of your
organizations and networks.
For more information on the
GPSA Knowledge Platform,
please contact us through
gpsakp@fundar.org.mx.