Social Accountability In Ethiopia Establishing Collaborative Relationships Between Citizens And The State

Author : Dr. Samuel Taddesse
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781483477565

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Social Accountability in Ethiopia: Establishing Collaborative Relationships between Citizens and the State by Dr. Samuel Taddesse Pdf

Social Accountability in Ethiopia is a comprehensive guidebook with numerous examples on the use of social accountability-a process by which citizens, communities, policymakers, and government officials are engaged in constructive dialogue about justifications for policies and actions, among other elements. It offers detailed and thorough discussion of how social accountability tools are used to objectively assess government service delivery performance and the mechanisms used for addressing service delivery deficits in constructive and collaborative processes between citizens and government actors. It also discusses how the social accountability practice can be sustained, regularized and mainstreamed in government service delivery decisions. It also enables citizens to voice their needs and concerns and work collaboratively to enhance the access, quality, and equity of the public services they use.

Author : Dr. Samuel Taddesse
Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781647045449

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Taxation for Sustained Prosperity by Dr. Samuel Taddesse Pdf

The primary business of government is to develop, implement, and strengthen the conditions that enhance the quality of life of all citizens. Taxation is required to fund government operations to produce and deliver the essential public goods and services that enhance and strengthen citizens’ quality of life and standard of living. Countries like Ethiopia that are not endowed with natural resources such as oil, minerals, and precious metals rely heavily on tax revenues collected from citizens, residents, and businesses. To effectively achieve this goal, government policymakers must understand: · What matters for quality of life? · What must be done to enhance citizens’ quality of life? · How would the government fund the programs designed to improve citizens’ living standards over the next ten years? And · How must the government collaborate with citizens, businesses, residents, and development partners to implement and manage programs that tangibly improve citizens’ quality of life? Citizens’ quality of life and living standards are inextricably linked to the quantity, quality, and access to education, healthcare services, clean water, sanitation, agriculture and nutritious food supplies, peace, justice and security, transport, and communication infrastructures, including roads, bridges, telecommunications, and internet connectivity, among others. Quality of life and citizens’ living standards are also conditional on citizens’ income-generating abilities, productivity, and overall national income equality. Developing and strengthening the conditions that enhance citizens’ standard of living require massive amounts of investments. A primary source of funds is tax revenue collected from citizens, businesses, and residents. Taxes are imposed by law. This book links taxation with citizens’ prosperity and well-being. It identifies how a tax policy should be formulated and how effectively, equitably, and efficiently taxes should be collected.

Author : Qaiser M Khan,Jean-Paul Faguet,Christopher Gaukler,Wendmsyamregne Mekasha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464803314

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Improving Basic Services for the Bottom Forty Percent by Qaiser M Khan,Jean-Paul Faguet,Christopher Gaukler,Wendmsyamregne Mekasha Pdf

Ethiopia’s model for delivering basic services appears to be succeeding and to confirm that services improve when service providers are more accountable to citizens. The approach chosen in Ethiopia is pro-poor with the bottom 40 percent benefiting relatively more. The approach is also reducing other disparities including gender and historic.

Author : Helene Grandvoinnet,Ghazia Aslam,Shomikho Raha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781464804823

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Opening the Black Box by Helene Grandvoinnet,Ghazia Aslam,Shomikho Raha Pdf

Opening the Black Box: Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability fills an important knowledge gap by providing guidance on how to assess contextual drivers of social accountability effectiveness. This publication aims to more strategically support citizen engagement at the country level and for a specific issue or problem. The report proposes a novel framing of social accountability as the interplay of constitutive elements: citizen action and state action, supported by three enabling levers: civic mobilization, interface and information. For each of these constitutive elements, the report identifies 'drivers' of contextual effectiveness which take into account a broad range of contextual factors (e.g., social, political and intervention-based, including information and communication technologies). Opening the Black Box offers detailed guidance on how to assess each driver. It also applies the framework at two levels. At the country level, the report looks at 'archetypes' of challenging country contexts, such as regimes with no formal space or full support for citizen-state engagement and fragile and conflict-affected situations. The report also illustrates the use of the framework to analyze specific social accountability interventions through four case studies: Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Yemen, and the Kyrgyz Republic.

Author : Mary McNeil,Carmen Malena
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821383833

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Demanding Good Governance by Mary McNeil,Carmen Malena Pdf

Accountability is the cornerstone of good governance. Unless public officials can be held to account, then critical benefits associated with good governance, such as social justice, poverty reduction and development remain elusive. The impacts of non-responsive and unaccountable governance are perhaps most harshly felt by the citizens of Africa, where corruption and governance failures are broadly acknowledged as a principal obstacle to the achievement Over the past decade, a range of social accountability practices such as participatory budgeting, independent budget analysis, participatory monitoring of public expenditure and citizen evaluation of public services have been experimented with in many Africa countries. Their outcomes and lessons have, thus far, received little attend and documentation. This volume aims to make a contribution towards filling this gap by describing and analyzing a selection of social accountability initiatives from seven Sub-Saharan countries.

Author : Jean-Paul Faguet
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472118199

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Decentralization and Popular Democracy by Jean-Paul Faguet Pdf

Faguet identifies the factors that determine the outcomes of national decentralization on the local level

Author : Mario Claasen,Carmen Alpn-Lardis
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781920409371

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Social Accountability in Africa by Mario Claasen,Carmen Alpn-Lardis Pdf

Social Accountability in Africa: Practitioners Experiences and Lessons is a collection of case studies from Africa on social accountability. This collection attempts to build a consolidated body of knowledge on social accountability efforts across the continent. The case studies are diverse and present unique approaches to how social accountability strategies and interventions are implemented within different countries. The book is written by practitioners, for practitioners, providing first hand experience of designing and implementing social accountability initiatives and the challenges, methods and successes each one presents.

Author : Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Publisher : IAP
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781641133944

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Outcome Harvesting by Ricardo Wilson-Grau Pdf

Are you a grant maker, manager or evaluator who must assess your work to improve as well as be accountable for the use of resources and results? Does the project, program or organization you fund, manage or evaluate contend with substantial uncertainty about what to do and what will be the results? Do you thus experience constant change and unexpected and unforeseeable actors and factors in your intervention? Do you need to know what you are achieving and how in real time? And therefore, do you seek an alternative to conventional monitoring and evaluation of social change results? If yes, then you are the audience for this book. Beginning in 2002, working closely with co-evaluators and commissioners of evaluations, the author developed Outcome Harvesting to enable evaluators, grant makers, and managers to identify, formulate, verify, and make sense of changes that interventions have influenced in a broad range of cutting–edge innovation and development projects and programs around the world. Over these years, he led Outcome Harvesting evaluative exercises involving almost 500 non-governmental organizations, networks, government agencies, funding agencies, community-based organizations, research institutes and university programs. In over fifty evaluations, with forty co-evaluators he has harvested thousands of outcomes on six continents. Outcome Harvesting has proven useful in evaluations of a great diversity of initiatives: human rights advocacy, political, economic and environmental advocacy, arts and culture, health systems, information and communication technology, conflict and peace, water and sanitation, taxonomy for development, violence against women, rural development, organic agriculture, participatory democracy, waste management, public sector reform, good governance, eLearning, social accountability, and business competition, amongst others. In this book, the author explains the steps of Outcome Harvesting and how to customize them according to the nine underlying principles. He shares his experience and gives practical advice on how to work with Outcome Harvesting and remain true to its essential features.

Author : Jennifer N. Brass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107162983

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Allies or Adversaries by Jennifer N. Brass Pdf

This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development.

Author : United States. Federal Council of Citizenship Training
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : CORNELL:31924014092260

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Community Score Card by United States. Federal Council of Citizenship Training Pdf

Author : Marta Martinelli,Nicoletta Pirozzi
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788868125950

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Promoting Stability and Development in Africa by Marta Martinelli,Nicoletta Pirozzi Pdf

Africa is experiencing one of the greatest transformations of its history. Today’s Sub-Saharan Africa is still marked by enduring instability, mass migrations and crises, but at the same time it is also characterised by positive developments including economic growth and regional integration. This publication sheds light on these changes from three perspectives: economic policies and sustainable development; good governance and democracy; peace and security. Research in relevant regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and key countries (Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa) has been conducted by African and European experts with the aim of assessing the role of the private sector and determining the partner-ship opportunities that could potentially be developed with the public sector. A series of policy recommendations are offered to the European Union on how to tackle these opportunities in cooperation with old and new actors.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Legislation
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116478587

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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America by United States. Congress. Senate Pdf

Author : Bacha Kebede Debela,Geert Bouckaert,Meheret Ayenew Warota,Dereje Terefe Gemechu
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789462702561

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Public Administration in Ethiopia by Bacha Kebede Debela,Geert Bouckaert,Meheret Ayenew Warota,Dereje Terefe Gemechu Pdf

Building an effective, inclusive, and accountable public administration has become a major point of attention for policymakers and academics in Ethiopia who want to realise sustainable development. This first handbook on Ethiopian Public Administration is written by Ethiopian academics and practitioner-academics and builds on PhD studies and conference papers, including studies presented at the meetings of the Ethiopian Public Administration Association (EPAA), established in 2016. Public Administration in Ethiopia presents a wide range of timely issues in four thematic parts: Governance, Human Resources, Performance and Quality, and Governance of Policies. Each of the individual chapters in this volume contributes in a different way to the overarching research questions: How can we describe and explain the contexts, the processes and the results of the post-1990 politico-administrative reforms in Ethiopia? And what are the implications for sustainable development? This book is essential for students, practitioners, and theorists interested in public administration, public policy, and sustainable development. Moreover, the volume is a valuable stepping stone for PA teaching and PA research in Ethiopia.

Author : Missouri River Basin Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : MINN:31951D00270569F

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Priorities Report by Missouri River Basin Commission Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264056435

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Better Aid Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness Findings, Recommendations and Good Practice by OECD Pdf

This book is a resource for implementing the recommendations on civil society and aid effectiveness emerging from the Accra High Level Forum and its preparatory process.