Still time to register for tomorrow's webinar on understanding the impact of accountability work, with Jonathan Fox, Brendan Halloran, Ima Akpan, Salbiyah, chaired by Rosie McGee: ids-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Civil society accountability initiatives may leverage governmental responses, but how do we know when they add up to accountability? Check out this new think piece, informed by collaboration with campaigners

Muchas felicidades! Congratulations to Chava & ACADESAN Consejo Comunitario General del San Juan for this UNHCR recognition for human rights leadership

Colombia's union of government human rights workers charged the political appointee (from the previous administration) who runs the Defensoria del Pueblo agency with corruption. Now the #whistleblower president of the defenders' union is facing death threats...ARC

Check out Adrian Gurza Lavalle 's analysis of the long term survival and adaptation of Brazil's social oversight institutions... another #AccountabilityKeyword blog.

Just out: Lessons learned from SATHI Pune 's many years of community social accountability to improve public health services by activating official citizen oversight institutions - adaptive, autonomous and resilient...

New Working Paper: social accountability in public #health , Maharashtra, India. Large-scale, gov-funded participatory #monitoring initiative (CBMP) endured 15+ yrs; nurtured civil soc networks that re-invented themselves during Covid. What stood out? bit.ly/3QlFFFD 1/5

Coming up, the launch of ARC’s latest working paper - on worker rights & corporate accountability…

Here's a key agenda for locally-led development: Follow the money

Check out new tenure track faculty openings in DC at the AU School of International Service - american.edu/sis/

Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and Honduras top the list as most dangerous for #EnvironmentalDefenders All four have governments that were elected with high hopes for change from social movements & frontline defenders. All four governments have HR protection agencies - yet still...

OGP connects the dots -

This week @ #OGPEstonia reformers and civil society leaders are finding common ground to build open government. For analysis of state-society synergy, see how intensive openings from above can create space for collective action by the excluded...

More user-centered open government from donors can bolster 'locally-led development' - check out takeaways from an ARC pilot study - sorry to miss the in-person #OGPEstonia

As Samantha Power joins the closing plenary of #OGPEstonia tomorrow, Jonathan Fox & Jeff Hallock's new blog on Duncan Green discusses the links between USAID's ambitious localization agenda & open government, with a focus on Colombia Open Gov Partnership bit.ly/461hVLY