SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR DEVELOPMENTIMPACT

May 19-20, 2016 | World Bank

“The real challenge is to spread and

scale, fundamentally changing the way

governments and the private sector

work, through citizen feedback and social

accountability.” World Bank President Kim, 2015 GPSA Global Partners Forum

WELCOME DEAR PARTNERS AND FRIENDS OF THE GPSA

Welcome to the Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA)’s third Global Partners Forum. Ever since the GPSA was established in 2012, we have strived to impact the way civil society and governments work together to solve critical governance challenges, by enhancing citizen voice and supporting responsive governments.

Partnerships play a crucial role in shaping the GPSA. We are proud to work with over 280 Global Partners from over 75 countries. The Global Partners Forum was designed to bring together our partners from civil society, academia, businesses and governments from all around the globe, to create a unique space to reflect on social accountability theory and practice, and to shape the social accountability agenda for years to come.

Following on last year’s memorable Global Partners Forum, where World Bank President Kim called for social accountability to ‘spread and scale,’ this year’s theme is: Social Accountability for Development Impact. The Forum will explore strategic social accountability practice and learning in key sectors such as health, education, water, extractives and others. Recent trends in the field such as experimentation with various forms of constructive engagement, co-creation and co-production, as well as the use of learning for adaptive management, and efforts towards building more inclusive institutions will be deliberated.

The GPSA’s work is central to the mission of the World Bank and to our twin goals of eradicating poverty and fostering shared prosperity.

We are honored to have you here, and hope we will have a truly inspirational two days together.

The GPSA Team

Social accountability has gained increasing importance in the development sector over the past two decades. Development partners – including governments, private sector and citizens – recognize the critical role of citizen voice, transparency and participation in improving governance. As the practice continues to expand and develop, it is important to foster a better understanding of some of the recent trends and how they are contributing to growing the impact of social accountability.

At last year’s Forum, World Bank President Kim called for social accountability to ‘spread and scale’ and meet the potential for bigger impact. Building on previous Forums, “What works in Social Accountability?” in 2014 and “Social Accountability for Citizen-Centric Governance: A Changing Paradigm” in 2015, this year’s Forum will focus on understanding three recent trends in the social accountability field, including Learning for Adaptive Management, Constructive Engagement and Co-Production and Inclusive Institutions. Breaking silos and working jointly to sort out the challenges has the potential to be transformative and strategically strengthen the social accountability field.

GPSA Donors: World Bank, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A., United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Bertelsmann Stiftung, Government of Dominican Republic, Government of Finland, Government of USA, Government of Mexico.

Forum Supporters: Energy and Extractives Global Practice at World Bank, Ethiopia Social Accountability Program (ESAP2), Global Partnership for Education, International Finance Corporation, Leadership, Learning and Innovation at World Bank, Making All Voices Count (MAVC), UNICEF, Water Global Practice at World Bank, Young Americas Business Trust

SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR DEVELOPMENT IMPACT

AGENDA AGENDA8:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast

Preston Auditorium8:30-8:50 Forum Opening & Video Address by President Kim Dr. Jim Yong Kim, World Bank President Junaid Ahmad, Chief of Staff, office of World Bank President

8:50-9:20 Keynote Address: Social Accountability for Development Impact Thomas Carothers, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

8:50-9:20 Dialogue on Constructive Engagement – The Experience of Ghana Chair: Lily Mulatu, Acting Practice Manager for Education, West-Africa region, WBG Harriet Agyemang, GPSA Project Manager, SEND Ghana; Cynthia Arthur, Head, External Debt Unit, Ministry of Finance of Ghana; Robert Intseful, Acting Head of the Planning at Ghana Education Service Headquarters, Ministry of Education, Ghana 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Rooms Assigned11:00-12:30 Workshop Session 1: Constructive engagement & Co-production 1. State-society collaboration for improved health policy in Indonesia: Mainstreaming Social Accountability into National Programs 2. State-society collaboration for improved education policies in Morocco: From importing a tool to co-producing a social accountability strategy 3. Constructive Engagement in the Context of Decentralization: Improving Budget Accountability in Health and Education Sectors across Levels of government in Ghana 4. State-Society Constructive Engagement for Improved Health Determinants in the Kyrgyz Republic 5. From global to local: Open Government Partnership’s co-creation processes in Jalisco, Mexico 6. Georgia’s Experience as a Member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP): From Engagement to Co-Production 7. New frontiers in citizen engagement in World Bank projects 8. Service delivery improvements in challenging contexts: constructive state-citizen engagement under the Ethiopia Social Accountability Program 9. Citizen engagement and social accountability in Kenya’s decentralization process 12:30-1:30 Lunch 12:30 – 3:30pm Government Gathering Government attendees to gather separately for a moderated discussion to explore their role in social accountability. Co-organized by GPSA, OGP, MAVC, and LLI. 1:30-2:00 Framing Presentation: Learning for Adaptive Management Vijayendra Rao, Lead Economist, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank Dennis Whittle, Director and Co-founder, Feedback LabsRooms Assigned2:00-3:30 Workout Session 2: Learning for Adaptive Management 1. Can Funders ‘Afford’ to Learn? Can Their Clients and Partners Afford it if They Don’t? 2. Practitioner Oriented Research Collaborations in Practice: Why Iteration is key and what does it take? 3. Scoala Mea: Strengthening Educational Reforms through Social Accountability in Moldova 4. Adaptive capacity in day-to-day operations: Experiences from the Social Observatory in India 5. Citizen-led action with impact: The role of adaptive program design 6. Citizen-led Assessments of Education services: An example of adaptive learning across borders 7. Learning at the frontline: Challenges and opportunities for action

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break

Preston Auditorium4:00-4:30 Update on GPSA Mark Robinson, Director for Governance, World Resources Institute & 2015 Independent Evaluator of GPSA & Jeff Thindwa, Practice Manager, Governance Global Practice, WBG 4:30-5:15 Knowledge Sharing Across Borders (Networking Activity)

Atrium 5:30-7:30 Networking Fair & Reception Opened by Sanjay Pradhan, CEO, Open Government Partnership & Debbie Wetzel, Senior Director, Governance Global Practice, WBG

8:00-8:30 Breakfast Preston Auditorium8:30-9:00 Review of Forum Day 1 & Opening Day 2 Jonas Rolett, Special Advisor to the Chairman, George Soros, Open Society Foundations Debbie Wetzel, Senior Director, Governance Global Practice, WBG

9:00-10:30 Panel: Inclusive Institutions for Development Impact Chair: Debbie Wetzel, Senior Director, Governance Global Practice, WBG Danny Sriskandarajah, Secretary General, CIVICUS; Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy; Rosario Bento Pais, Head of Unit for Civil Society and Authorties, European Commission; Sanjay Pradhan, CEO, Open Government Partnership; Sowmya Kidambi, Director, Society for Social Audit, Accountability & Transparency, Government of Telangana, India; Gilbert Sendugwa, Programme Coordinator at Africa Freedom of Information Centre

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Rooms Assigned11:00-12:30 Workshop Session 3: Trends by Theme 1. Global Initiatives and Local Engagement: Social Accountability in the Education Sector 2. Social Accountability in Extractive Industries: Experiences and Challenges for Scaling up Impact 3. Supporting Citizen Engagement at the National Level: The Experience of Global Health Initiatives 4. Social Accountability in States Of Fragility 5. Social Accountability’s Present and Future: The Role of Children and Youth 6. Citizen Engagement in Public Financial Management: Lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal 7. Advancing Social Accountability in the Water Sector 8. Connecting the Dots: Strengthening Political and Horizontal Accountability

12:30-1:30 Lunch

Preston Auditorium1:30-2:15 World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law Yongmei Zho, Development Research Group, World Bank

2:15-3:15 Panel: Social Accountability and the Sustainable Development Goals Chair: Jeff Hall, incoming Executive Director of the Bank Information Center (formerly, World Vision International); Olav Kjorven, Director Public Partnerships Division, UNICEF; Besi Mpepo, Senior Policy Adviser for Social Accountability, World Vision; Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, World Resources Institute & incoming Co-Chair of the Open Government Partnership; Margaret Kakande, Head, Budget Monitoring and Accountability Unit at Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Uganda; Jos Verbeek, Advisor, Multilateral Partnerships, WBG

3:15-3:45 Dessert Break

3:45-4:15 Forum Insights John Gaventa, Director of Research, Institute for Development Studies 4:15-4:30 Closing Remarks Jan Walliser, Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, WBG

*All workshops and times may not be correct at time of printing. For an up-to-date Forum Agenda, please visit the GPSA Forum website: https://www.thegpsa.org/sa/forum/global-partners-forum-2016

Inclusive Institutions for Development Impact

Building on the introductory words by the Governance Global Practice Senior Director Debbie Wetzel, the Inclusive Institutions panel will discuss how to systematically include citizen views and feedback in government interventions to increase government responsiveness to citizen needs by bringing together “supply and demand” for social accountability.  Panelists will share different perspectives on the common challenges of building constructive dialogue with governments, ultimately leading to shaping institutions that are responsive to and inclusive of citizens.

Social Accountability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) panel will discuss practical, concrete opportunities for GPSA Global Partners to leverage the SDGs. This panel will explore the ways that we can leverage social accountability, new partnerships, and the data revolution to link grassroots action to the global framework, scale our impact and meet the challenge of the SDGs. 

FORUM PANELS

Leading Co-construction for Change – A Government Perspective

Government Peer-to-Peer Dialogue & Learning Session – open to government officials only

Moderator: Roby Senderowitsch, Manager, Leadership, Learning and Innovation Client Services Department (LLI),

World Bank

Presenter: John Gaventa, Research Director, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

How can multi-stakeholder coalitions that span across civil society and government help to drive social accountability

agendas forward? While a lot is generally known about civil society’s role in coalitions for change, government

officials are often described as passive ‘recipients’ or ‘targets’ of externally funded initiatives. This underestimates

the potential of key reformers from within public administrations to fulfil and excel in their roles, and to provide the

necessary leadership from the inside. Public officials often have to navigate complex political systems, keeping up

with both citizens’ and politicians’ demands without necessarily having sufficient support or special skills to back

them up. Aligning with peers and multi-stakeholder coalitions, along with sufficient capacity support, can provide for

ways around this. As the field of social accountability is moving towards a paradigm where governments and civil

society are setting jointly agreed upon targets, actions and solutions, what would enable public officials in taking

on a more pro-active leadership role in such coalitions? How can political risks be minimized? What are some of the

barriers? And what – if anything – can external actors do address this?

The purpose of this informal peer-to-peer dialogue is to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the critical

role public officials can play in driving processes of social accountability. It will give some of the identified change

makers from partner governments within the GPSA framework and the Open Government Partnership (OGP) a

chance to openly discuss these questions, share experiences, and contribute to this evolving body of knowledge.

The Government Dialogue session is organized by:

GOVERNMENT GATHERING

FORUM WORKSHOPSWORKSHOP SESSION 1: CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT AND CO-PRODUCTION

1.State-Society Collaboration for Improved Health Policy in Indonesia: Mainstreaming Social Accountability into National ProgramsModerator: Maria Poli, Capacity Building Coordinator, GPSA, World Bank

Discussants: Anung Sugihantono, Director General for Community Health, Ministry of Health; Rudy Prawiradinata,

Senior Advisor to the Minister of Planning, Government of Indonesia; Doddy Izwardy, Director of Nutrition, Ministry

of Health, Government of Indonesia; Andreas Darmega Sihotang, Project Manager, GPSA Wahana Visi Project in

Indonesia; Laura Andriani Hukom, Advocacy Director, Wahana Visi Indonesia; Ali Subandoro, Health Specialist, Task

Team Leader GPSA Wahana Visi Project, World Bank.

Wahana Visi is leading a partnership to improve maternal, newborn and child health service delivery through

improvements in governance and service delivery in Indonesia. The project has achieved remarkable results in

the past two years in terms of tangible improvements in MNCH services made possible through the joint action

between the government and civil society groups.

In this session, Indonesian civil society leaders and government officials will share their experience to-date and

explain why and how the government is considering mainstreaming a social accountability approach into national

frontline service delivery programs, with a particular focus on health. The session will then focus on a conversation

with workshop participants about how government and civil society can work together towards this goal.

2. State-society collaboration for improved education policies in Morocco: From importing a tool to co-producing a social accountability strategy/Collaboration Etat – société civile pour des politiques d’éducation meilleures au Maroc : De l’intégration d’outils vers une stratégie collaborative de Responsabilisation sociale (RS)Moderator: Saad Filali Meknassi, Capacity Building Advisor, GPSA

Discussants: Nissrine Bouhamidi, LEAD Project Manager, CARE International Maroc; Mahmoud B’Chini, Director,

Near East Foundation Morocco; Christina Wright, Task Team Leader, World Bank and Mr. Abdellatif Chaouki,

Provincial Director, Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training, Province of Sidi Bernoussi, Morocco.

NOTE: THIS SESSION WILL BE IN FRENCH

The Linking Education and Accountability for Development (LEAD) project, as other citizen-led efforts to improve

voice and accountability, seeks to engage constructively with state institutions at the local, regional and national

levels to find solutions to development problems. The LEAD project and its partners in government, civil society,

schools and the World Bank started working in 2014 in a Moroccan context that knows significant changes in terms

of legal, strategic and institutional frameworks. Since then, stakeholders are learning how to go about solving

problems together so that multiple resources and capacities align to improve education policies and outcomes.

For LEAD partners, key insights of this process include: a) investing in participative strategies first, before jumping

in the implementation of a tool; b) building on partnerships and on-going public sector initiatives to co-assess entry

points, strategies and tactics; c) strengthen the enabling environment and develop capacities for co-delivering

solutions; d) build on joint on-going reflection to course correct.

In this workshop, representatives of CARE Maroc, the Near East Foundation, the Ministry of Education, and The

World Bank will briefly share their individual and joint experiences and lessons in the implementation of LEAD

to-date. Their perspective is expected to trigger an open conversation with workshop participants about the

opportunities, challenges of going this joint route in Morocco and beyond.

[In French/En Francais]

A l’image d’autres initiatives et efforts engagés par les citoyens et la société civile, Linking Education and

Accountability for Development (LEAD) project ou le projet.

« Relier Education et Responsabilisation pour le Développement » cherche à engager de manière constructive

les institutions représentatives de l’Etat aux niveaux local, régional et national pour trouver des solutions aux

problèmes de développement.

Le projet LEAD et ses partenaires dans le gouvernement, la société civile, les écoles et la Banque mondiale ont

commencé cette expérience en 2014 dans un contexte marocain qui connait des changements importants en

termes des cadres légal, stratégique et institutionnel.

Depuis le lancement du projet LEAD, les parties prenantes du projet ont commencé à collaborer ensemble et à

chercher des solutions pour que les différentes ressources et capacités puissent être mobilisées pour améliorer les

politiques d’éducation et leurs résultats sur le terrain.

Pour les partenaires du projet LEAD, ce processus comprend des éléments clés comprenant :

a) Investir dans des stratégies participatives en premier lieu avant de commencer la mise en œuvre d’outils de

Responsabilisation sociale qui peuvent ne pas s’adapter au contexte local;

b) Construire sur la base des partenariats et des initiatives en cours du secteur public pour évaluer ensemble les

points d’entrée, les stratégies et les tactiques possibles;

c) Renforcer l’environnement favorable à la collaboration positive entre les parties prenantes en relevant leurs

capacités pour produire des solutions durables;

d) Alimenter la réflexion collective de manière continue pour corriger les orientations du projet quand il est

nécessaire.

Cet atelier de travail permettra aux principales parties prenantes du projet LEAD, à savoir les représentants de

CIM, NEF, le Ministère de l’Education et la Banque mondiale, de partager leurs expériences et leçons individuelles

et collectives dans la mise en œuvre du projet jusqu’à maintenant. La variété de leurs points de vue permettra de

déclencher un débat ouvert avec les participant(e)s à l’atelier sur les opportunités et les défis de cette expérience

commune au Maroc et au-delà.

3. Constructive Engagement in the Context of Decentralization: Improving Budget Accountability in

Health and Education Sectors across Levels of Government in GhanaModerator: Carolina Vaira, Senior Governance Specialist, World Bank

Discussants: Gabriel Dedu, Governance Specialist, World Bank; Harriet Agyemang, GPSA Project Manager, SEND

Ghana; Cynthia Arthur, Head of Expenditure Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Finance, Government of Ghana and Robert

Intseful, Director of Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, Ministry of Education, Government of Ghana.

The Making the Budget Work for Ghana project is working to enhance transparency and accountability in the

use of public resources in the health and education sectors in 30 districts and at the national level. Constructive

engagement between civil society and government is a key aspect of the project’s social accountability strategy.

In this session, project partners will reflect about their efforts to-date. This raises a number of questions that will

inform an open conversation between representatives of SEND-Ghana, the Ministries of Finance and Education, The

World Bank and workshop participants. For example, what are the main differences for state-society joint work

locally and nationally? How does implementation inform changes in original plans?

4. State-Society Constructive Engagement for Improved Health Determinants in the Kyrgyz RepublicModerator: Florencia Guerzovich, Lead Capacity Building Advisor, GPSA.

Discussants: Sabina Gradwal, Project Manager, Development Policy Institute, Kyrgyz Republic and Scott Abrams,

Social Accountability Advisor, GPSA.

In Kyrgyz Republic, 1,600 Village Health Committees (VHCs) were established to inform health service delivery in

the country’s districts. While VHCs have had some impact in promoting good health practices and behaviors, they

have seldom been effective at influencing broader public services linked to healthy lifestyles.

The Improving Health Determinants in Kyrgyz Villages project supports participatory processes that convene

stakeholder groups to monitor and influence public budgets, with a focus on services that affect health

determinants. It does so by empowering citizens and public officials to engage in joint-problem solving, strategic

planning and oversight. Engaged citizenry has produced positive changes in some villages, however contextual

factors such as limited rule of law, unaccountable officials, tribalism, and a disregard for participatory mechanisms,

have created obstacles in others.

In this session, the project team will reflect on positive and negative experiences of collaborative problem-solving

at the local level engagement, as well as opportunities that opened up to engage national level policies and

institutions.

5. From Global to Local: Open Government Partnership’s Co-creation Processes in Jalisco, MexicoModerator: Alonso Cerdan, Program Manager, Open Government Partnership Support Unit

Discussants: Mark Robinson, Global Director, Governance; World Resources Institute; ; David Gomez Alvarez,

Undersecretary for Planning and Evaluation, Jalisco, Mexico; Alberto Sandoval, Executive Director, Transversal Think

Tank, Mexico; Marcela Rozo, Senior Operations Officer, Governance Global Practice, WBG

Jalisco is one of the first states in Mexico to implement the Open Government Partnership (OGP) at the local level.

Moreover, Jalisco’s OGP initiative is unique in its plurality and inclusion; it includes the executive branch alongside

with the legislative one and the Capital Municipality, in addition to CSOs, academia, the private sector and the

media.

This session seeks to explore Jalisco’s experience with the process of co-creating a local action plan that will seek to

meet citizen expectations of transparency and accountability of local government reforms while drawing on global

practices from which Jalisco can learn. The discussion will explore the challenges and opportunities of co-creation

at the local level while also highlighting the efforts of implementing and localizing the Sustainable Development

Goals and the 2030 Agenda in Jalisco and beyond.

6. Georgia’s Experience as a Member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP): From Engagement to Co-ProductionModerator: Joe Powell, Acting Executive Director, Open Government Partnership Support Unit.

Discussants: Kety Tsanava, Legal Advisor at the Ministry of Justice of Georgia and National Coordinator of Open

Government Georgia; Saba Buadze, Good Governance Program Coordinator, Institute for Development of Freedom of

Information; and Giorgi Kldiashvili, Director, Institute for Development of Freedom of Informatio n (IDFI).

In response to civil society’s recommendations, the government of Georgia created a platform to enable government,

local and international organizations to sit together and co-create the open government agenda for the country. The

government established a permanent dialogue mechanism – the Open Government Georgia’s Forum – giving CSOs

the ability to engage directly in elaborating open government reforms. This session will discuss how government

and civil society co-creation efforts help to experiment with new ways to integrate transparency and accountability

in government reforms. Participants will hear examples of how dialogue helps to transform the relationship between

governments and citizens and how it allows two-way communication between public officials and members of the

public, which ultimately results in citizen-oriented governance in the country.

7. New Frontiers in Citizen Engagement in World Bank ProjectsModerator: Utpal Misra, Governance Specialist, Citizen Engagement Secretariat, World Bank.

Discussants: Shahin Kauser, Deputy Program Manger, Manusher Jonno Foundation; Fred Temple, Project Adviser

Partnership for Transparency Fund; Vinay Barghava, Chief Technical Officer, Partnership for Transparency Fund; and

Ali Abbas, Sr. Environmental Officer, National Solidarity Programme, Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development,

Afghanistan.

The Strategic Framework for Mainstreaming Citizen Engagement in World Bank operations was approved in 2014 to

improve development results and to strengthen engagement processes between governments, the private sector and

citizens. This is however not a new agenda as CSOs have been supporting project implementation.

The Citizen Action for Results Transparency and Accountability (CARTA) program piloted citizen engagement in 11

World Bank projects in several sectors, with a focus on empowering beneficiaries to demand greater transparency and

accountability in resource use, service delivery and grievance resolution. At this session, we will examine what has been

the experience and lessons learned with citizen engagement to-date, and how this has impacted project outcomes and

how some of the perceived benefits have influenced project implementation.

8. Service Delivery Improvements in Challenging Contexts: Constructive State-Citizen Engagement Under the Ethiopia Social Accountability ProgramModerator: Marcos Mendiburu, Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank

Discussants: Melaku Kifle Woldemariam, Senior Program Management Specialist and Advisor, Ministry of Finance and

Economic Cooperation, Government of Ethiopia; Alex Kamurase, ESAP2 Task Team Leader and Senior Social Protection

Specialist, World Bank; and Lucia Nass, Social Accountability Expert and Head of Capacity Development, Management

Agency/PCU.

The session will discuss experiences with government’s views of social accountability, complex policy dialogue in

systems with long history of centralized governance, behavior changes and service improvements through social

accountability mechanisms. The Ethiopia Social Accountability Program (ESAP2) has supported over 200,000 citizens

representatives to gain skills in monitoring service delivery performance through constructive dialogue with the state

aimed at making improvements in basic service delivery in five sectors: health, education, agriculture, water

and sanitation and rural roads. Participants will share options, choices and balances required to ensure continuity

of social accountability, mainstream implementation through sectors, community-based organizations, civil society,

and independent government institutions, among others, without eroding credibility and independence of the

program in facilitating citizen participation.society, and independent government.

9. Citizen Engagement and Social Accountability in Kenya’s Devolution ReformsModerator: Keith McLean, Lead Governance Specialist, Governance Global Practice, World Bank.

Discussants: Christopher Finch, Senior Social Development Specialist, Urban, Rural and Social Development Global

Practice, World Bank; and Al Kags, Founder Trustee, The Open Institute.

Kenya has steadily improved economic management, and scores relatively well on measures of citizen voice

and press freedom. However, the public sector still faces persistent governance challenges that hinder service

delivery. Among the many reforms ushered in by the 2010 Constitution, devolution is arguably the most ambitious,

as multiple powers, responsibilities, and funds have shifted from the national government to 47 elected county

governments. These county governments are mandated to engage citizens in planning and policy making

processes. The World Bank supports the reforms under its cross-practice decentralization support program. At this

session, we will examine what has been the experience with citizen engagement and social accountability in Kenya’s

ambitious and young decentralization process, and how this has impacted service delivery and the public sector

generally.

WORKSHOP SESSION 2: LEARNING FOR ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT

1. Can Funders ‘Afford’ to Learn? Can Their Clients and Partners Afford it if They Don’t?Moderator: Charlotte Ørnemark, Knowledge & Learning Team, GPSA

Discussants: Soniya Carvalho, Lead Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), World Bank Group;

Bruce Kay, Chief, Governance and Rule of Law Division, USAID Democracy, Human Rights & Governance Center;

Maria Gonzalez de Asis, Lead Operations Officer, Programme Manager, Science of Delivery Team & Global Delivery

Initiative, World Bank; Alexandra Maclean, Social Development Adviser, Empowerment & Accountability Team,

Policy Division, Department for International Development (DFID), UK and Katherine Bain, Senior Governance

Specialist, Governance Global Practice, World Bank Group.

There is renewed interest among donors about how to work more adaptively, respond to changing contexts and

develop adaptive competences and incentives for better results delivery. In social accountability initiatives, where

progress is dependent on working adaptively across multiple actors in response to citizen feedback, changing their

internal learning and management knowledge approaches, as well as institutional cultures and day-to-day practices

becomes particularly important.

Building an internal culture for working more adaptively may not be easy when institutional incentives and informal

knowledge sharing practices do not align with the experimentation and risk-taking that learning-by-doing often

calls for in social accountability interventions. Can donor institutions like the World Bank afford to invest in how

they learn? More importantly, however, can its clients and beneficiaries afford it if they don’t?

This session will gather some of the lessons in donors’ efforts to respond to an increasing need to work adaptively,

with a chance for participants to discuss what the implications for advancing social accountability are.

2. Practitioner Oriented Research Collaborations in Practice: Why Iteration is key and what does it take?Moderator: Florencia Guerzovich, Lead Capacity Building Advisor, GPSA.

Discussants: Annie Baltar, Program Manager, Concerned Citizens of Abra for Good Government (CCAGG); Ester

Alkonga, Executive Director, Recite; Varja Lipovsek, Director, Learning, Monitoring and Evalusation, Twaweza; Dante

de los Angeles, Director, Partnership for Transparency Fund; Lily Tsai, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT

Governance Lab and Nina McMurry, PhD candidate, MIT Governance Lab.

CCAGG, Recite, Twaweza and PTF are partnering with the MIT Governance Lab (MIT GOV/LAB) on practitioner-

oriented research partnerships. These partnerships seek to lever research (and the joint research process) to

improve concrete projects, strengthen organization’s learning capacities, train practice oriented researchers, and

produce knowledge about civic participation and accountability.

A unique characteristic of these collaborations is that they are long-term. Partners work together on specifying

theories of change, test them, and over time iterate them to incorporate what they have learned.

This session will discuss why diverse organizations join into these type of partnership. Concrete examples will

trigger an open conversation about experiences and concerns workshop participants have about research

partnerships and, more generally, the broader range of initiatives under way to integrate learning into social

accountability projects, and how efforts could help support the work of more colleagues in the field.

3. Scoala Mea: Strengthening Educational Reforms through Social Accountability in Moldova Moderator: Scott Abrams, Social Accountability Advisor, GPSA

Discussants: Victoria Vlad, Project Manager, Expert Grup; Irina Oleinik, Project Task Team Leader, World Bank and

Andrea Guede, Senior Operations Officer, Global Education Practice.

Scoala Mea (“My School”) is an initiative that seeks to improve education outcomes in Moldova by engaging

education stakeholders in an effort to provide real-time feedback on education services so that schools,

administrators and public authorities can make changes and improvements and are held more accountable for

their performance. Scoala Mea has already achieved a number of positive results, including opening up budget

discussions in more than 40 schools and triggering new resource allocations by public authorities.

However, the team faced a number of strategic and operational challenges. Scoala Mea was also able to identify

areas where it could buttress the overall Moldovan education reform process, including those supported by The

World Bank.

In this session, the Scoala Mea team will share its learning and adaptation experiences, and the need to plan

strategically but manage flexibly. These experiences are intended to generate a broader conversation with all of the

session’s participants about adaptive learning and management.

4. Adaptive Capacity in Day-to-Day Operations: Experiences from the Social Observatory in IndiaDiscussant: Vijayendra Rao, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

The Social Observatory was established in 2012 to improve the adaptive capacity of anti-poverty projects in a

$2 billion portfolio of community-driven development projects in India. The purpose is to improve their ability to

be nimble, to learn by doing, and to make mid-course corrections in management and design -- in order to be

effective. Adaptive Capacity is the ability to use evaluative and process-oriented information in every day decisions,

in order to see better, to learn better, and to adapt.

During this workshop, the discussant will share some of the experiences to date and explore together with

participants how adaptive capacity can be enhanced in day-to-day operations for continuous learning that leads to

more effective implementation.

5. Citizen-led Action with Impact: The Role of Adaptive Program DesignDiscussants: Jean Arkedis, Program Director, Results for Development and Sam Polk, Senior Program Officer,

Results for Development.

Getting citizens to take action is challenging.  Which citizens should be mobilized?  What type of information

motivates action?  How should it be shared?  Social accountability practitioners have to navigate these and

other questions when designing a program that “fits” the local context, but what exactly does it take to design a

completely new program, or adapt something that works elsewhere to a new context?  And, how do you know if

your program is “working” and ready to be applied at a larger scale?   

In the ‘Transparency for Development initiative’, Results for Development Institute and the Harvard Kennedy School

bring together researchers and civil society practitioners in an effort to co-design, pilot, assess, tweak and adapt

community-led efforts to improve health outcomes in Indonesia and Tanzania. In this workshop, they will share

some of their experiences to date and invite workshop participants to explore, through a practical exercise, how to

apply iterative adaptive program design using an example from their own environment or a case provided by the

organizers.

6. Citizen-led Assessments of Education Services: An Example of Adaptive Learning Across BordersModerator: Patricia Scheid, Program Officer, Global Development and Population, The William and Flora Hewlett

Foundation.

Discussants: Sahar Saeed, Program Manager/National Head, ASER Pakistan and Bala Venkatachalam, Executive

Director, Pratham USA/ASER India.

The session will shed light on how citizen led large scale household-based assessments particularly in India and

Pakistan are gathering momentum by illustrating the power of informed citizenry to influence national and global

agendas for education and learning. The presenters will discuss how a community led approach to data gathering

and analysis in context is bringing about appropriate response from stakeholders, viz. local community, market

forces and the government. Examples and experiences will be shared to highlight how these initiatives, influencing

governance and accountability at the community, provincial and national levels, have learned over time and

constructively engaged with key actors and government for active solutions.

7. Learning at the Frontline: Challenges and Opportunities for Action

Moderator: Michael Moses, Director of Advocacy & Programs, Global Integrity

Discussants: Gertrude Mugizi, Head of Programme, Regional Learning, Public Social Accountability Monitor; Aly

Lala, Researcher, Concern Universal, Mozambique; Almudena Ocejo, Executive Director, Centro de Contraloria

Social, Mexico and Lucia Nass, Head Capacity Development and Training, Ethiopia Social Accountability Program.

This session will provide a space for sharing and reflection about putting adaptive learning into practice within

the context of social accountability programs. Speakers from Ethiopia, Mexico, Mozambique and South Africa will

kick things off, outlining how they have put adaptive learning into practice in their work, the challenges they have

faced, and the ways in which they have addressed them.

The session will break out into give participants the opportunity to discuss whether and how adaptive learning

approaches have been, or might be, a useful element of their work on strengthening social accountability. It will

close with a plenary in which we hope to make connections amongst organizations’ experience and provide

some summary reflections about putting adaptive learning into action.

WORKSHOP SESSION 3: TRENDS ACROSS THEMES

1. Global Initiatives and Local Engagement: Social Accountability in the Education SectorChair: Ian Macpherson, Education Specialist, Global Partnership for Education.

Discussants: Matthias Lansard, Education Specialist, UNICEF Madagascar; Gabrielle Bonnet, Education Specialist,

UNICEF; Helen Dabu, Deputy Regional Coordinator, Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF), Asia South Pacific

Bureau for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE); Cheikh Mbow, National Coordinator, COSYDEP, Senegal and

Bernie Lovegrove, Asia Pacific Regional Coordinator, Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF), Asia South Pacific

Bureau for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE).

This session aims at deepening our understanding of various approaches to promoting social accountability and

building constructive engagement between governments and civil society in the education sector. The emphasis

of the session will be on: (1) exploring how global initiatives support citizen engagement in the education sector

through multi-stakeholder dialogues, platforms, and consultative processes at the national level; (2) debating

the barriers and enablers of policy reform and system change (3) presenting the experiences of GPSA Global

Partners, grantees, and external organizations in collaborating with government authorities and mobilizing

stakeholders to monitor education services at the local level.

2. Social Accountability in Extractive Industries: Experiences and Challenges for Scaling up ImpactChair: Kristina Svensson, Senior Mining Specialist, Energy and Extractives Global Practice, World Bank.

Discussants: Maryati Abdullah, National Coordinator, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia; Ana Bozena

Sabogal Dunin Borkowski De Alegria, Associate Professor, Pontifical University of Lima (PUCP); Gavin Hayman,

Open Contracting Partnership; Paul Mussenden, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Natural Resources Revenue

Management, Department of Interior, US Government; and Ba Aliou Coulibaly, National Coordinator of

Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Mauritania, Consultant, World Bank Group; Johanna Nesseth Tuttle, Manager,

Development & Public Policy, Chevron

Effective social accountability in the extractives sector requires citizens to have requisite information,

understanding, and opportunities to engage at each stage of the extractive industry value chain, and requires

that governments and companies provide data and opportunities for the public to participate in the monitoring

of revenue flows, and environmental and social impacts. This session will share experiences and document the

potential impacts of implementing the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative and other social accountability

initiatives at the local/sub-national level, discuss challenges and opportunities for scaling up those impacts,

and explore other mechanisms for promoting social accountability. During the course of the session, different

stakeholders will debate preconditions to ensure that there is genuine collaboration between government, private

sector and civil society, and how this collaboration be strengthened.

3. Supporting Citizen Engagement at the National Level: The Experience of Global Health InitiativesChair: Stephen Davenport, Global Lead, Open Government, World Bank Group.

Discussants: Bruno Rivalan, Head of the French Office, Global Health Advocates; Dr. Joanne Carter, Executive

Director, Results/GFF CSO Representative; Bertrand Kampoer Pfouminzhouer, Executive Director, Coordination, FIS

Cameroon; Amy Dietterich, Senior Officer, IFRC/Civil Society Coordinator GAVI; Motoko Seko, Technical Advisor,

Gender, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Dr. Anung Sugihantono, MKes, Director General of

Community Health, Government of Indonesia.

This session aims at deepening the understanding of the various mechanisms available for promoting social

accountability and building constructive engagements between governments and civil society in the health sector.

The emphasis of the session will be on exploring how global health initiatives support citizen engagement in the

health sector through multi-stakeholder dialogues, platforms, and consultative processes at the national level. We

will explore the different modalities though which global initiatives support citizen engagement in health policy at

the national level; describe how the process unfolds; and outline good practices and lessons learned in this area.

4. Social Accountability in States Of FragilityChair: Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence, World Bank;

Discussants: Alpha Umaro Sesay, Governance Director, IBIS Sierra Leone; Fredline M’Cormack-Hale, Research and

Policy Director, IGR Sierra Leone Leona; Michel Zabiti Zumbi, Eastern DR Congo Health Coordinator and GPSA

Project Manager, CORDAID DRC; Izabella Toth, Senior Policy and Advocacy Strategist, CORDAID; Guillaume

Labrecque, Governance Advisor, International Rescue Committee.

Within the GPSA portfolio of opted-in countries, almost 20% of them are listed as fragile states and more are

situated at some point in the fragility continuum. Moreover, GPSA Global partners’ work extends to many other

states of fragility. This session aims to reflect on social accountability processes in fragile and conflict-affected

contexts. It seeks to highlight how social accountability is devised in these contexts in order to create spaces for

civil society-government engagement in a constructive and collaborative manner. Drawing from the presenters’

experiences, the session will seek to spark a discussion with participants to explore the ways in which social

accountability processes can adapt to changing dynamics in fragile contexts.

5. Social Accountability’s Present and Future: The Role of Children and YouthChair: Benjamin Herzberg, Program Lead, Leadership, Learning and Innovation, World Bank

Discussants: Bob Muchabaiwa, Global Investment in Children Manager, Save the Children International; Tamta

Golubiani, Country Director, Save the Children Georgia; Anne-Sophie Ranjbar, Associate Director, Accountability

Lab.

The applicability of social accountability, both as a development tool and an approach, to various sectors and its

practice is gaining momentum. The role of children and young people, however, remains to be discussed: How can

they be involved as active change agents? This session will explore strategies and adaptations needed to ensure

social accountability methods and tools are child and youth-friendly, considering their diverse situations, including

varying vulnerabilities and access to opportunities. Using examples from Cambodia, Georgia, Mozambique, Nepal,

Pakistan and other countries, the session will demonstrate and discuss projects involving youth and children, as

well as projects acting on their behalf to ensure the fulfilment of their rights and their recognition as actors within

accountability systems. The session’s discussion will be organized around the experience of Save the Children

worldwide, and insights from the Accountability Lab.

6. Citizen Engagement in Public Financial Management: Lessons from Bangladesh and NepalChair: Juan Pablo Guerrero, Network Director, Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency

Discussants: Carolina Luisa Vaira, Senior Governance Specialist, World Bank; Anowarul Haq, Director, Extreme

Rural Poverty Program, CARE Bangladesh; Harika Masud, Governance Specialist, World Bank and Paolo de Renzio,

Senior Research Fellow, International Budget Partnership.

Social accountability in public financial management (PFM) is about enhancing transparency and effectiveness in

budgeting, resource allocation and public spending. Increased citizen voice and participation in the preparation,

implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies, programs and projects, has been shown to significantly

improve the accountability of governments and service providers - ultimately improving the effectiveness of social

policies and projects and development indicators in general. At this session, we will examine the global trends

in PFM engagements - with a focus on the challenges, opportunities and entry points for improving citizen and

civil society engagement in the processes. Discussants will also share lessons learnt from ongoing initiatives in

Bangladesh and Nepal.

7. Advancing Social Accountability in the Water SectorChair: Veronica Nyhan Jones, Head, Advisory Services, Infrastructure and Natural resources, IFC/WBG.

Discussants: Ben Blumenthal, Co-Team Leader Governance & Peace, Senior Advisor Governance, Helvetas; Louisa

Gosling, Manager, Quality Programs, International Programs, WaterAid UK and Andres Hernandez, Associate

Professor, Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies, Universidad de los Andes.

Coordinator: Marcos Mendiburu, Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank

The session will consist of a brainstorming session on how to advance social accountability in the water sector,

as well as discuss opportunities and challenges. Practitioners may approach the work on the Water sector

from various perspectives, including from a human rights angle, as a governance/ integrity issue; and as a

service delivery issue. This has different implications for implementing social accountability in the water sector.

Presentations will focus on key approaches used in several country programmes, challenges faced during project

implementation, and results achieved so far. This session will also examine the incentives, approaches and issues of

interest for businesses and utilities to engage with communities and governments around social accountability in

the water sector.

8. Connecting the Dots: Strengthening Political and Horizontal AccountabilityModerators: Jonathan Fox, Professor, School of International Service, American University and Brendan Halloran,

Senior Fellow for Impact and Learning, International Budget Partnership.

Discussants: Alberto Fernandez, Programme Officer, Global Programmes, International IDEA; Sowmya Kidambi,

Director, Society for Social Audit, Accountability and Transparency, Government of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh,

India and Anuradha Joshi, Senior Fellow, Governance, Institute of Development Studies.

Increasingly, states are adopting formal checks and balances to promote ‘horizontal accountability’ through

oversight, auditing or other functions. However, horizontal accountability mechanisms often lack real teeth to

combat impunity and corruption. In recent years, efforts have been made to strengthen these processes and

institutions through international standards and professionalization, as well as through campaigns and engagement

by civil society.

This session will include a discussion and debate about what it takes to connect citizen and state pro-

accountability processes and efforts to have real impacts. Understanding the political bargaining involved in

establishing accountability mechanisms, and how they fit vis-à-vis other elements of the political system, sheds

light on both what we can expect from these institutions and how they might be best leveraged by social actors to

contribute to public accountability.

NETWORKING FAIR

At the end of the first day of the Forum, a Networking Fair and Reception will be co-hosted by OGP and the GPSA. We envision this event to be an ideal opportunity for Forum Participants to share experiences related to citizen engagement and social accountability from their respective settings.

GPSA Global Partners’ and Grantees’ work in social accountability will be showcased at the World Bank headquarters. These partners have submitted materials to display at booths, which are open to Forum participants, government officials, donors as well as World Bank staff and visitors.

These booths act as a visualization tool to display the Global Partners’ commitment to social accountability through their innovative solutions. The showcased work illustrates social accountability experiences that highlight the topics of the Forum itself and highlight innovative and accessible data visualization, compelling illustrations of theories of change, and persuasive storytelling, from citizen/beneficiary perspectives.

Over the course of the day, Forum Participants will vote for the best booth and a winner will be announced. The winner will receive an award and will be showcased widely by the GPSA and get a special feature on the GPSA’s website.

Harriet Nuamah Agyemang, GPSA Project Manager, SEND GHANAPresenter ‘Dialogue on Constructive Engagement- The Experience of Ghana’

Harriet Nuamah Agyemang is a researcher and an advocate who works for SEND GHANA. She is the Project Coordinator for ‘Making the Budget Work for Ghana Project’ under the Global Part-nership for Social Accountability and heads the Greater Accra Region Networking Center of the organization. Harriets’ support of citizens’ groups through mobilization, sensitization and training has enhanced citizens’ confidence, capacity and skills in engaging local authorities on budgets and service delivery in the education and health sectors. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Development Studies from the University of Ghana and also trained as a journalist at the Ghana Institute of Journalism.

Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Chief of Staff, Office of World Bank PresidentPresenter ‘Forum Opening’

Junaid Ahmad is the Chief of Staff of the Office of the President at the World Bank. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Ahmad held numerous senior positions at the Bank including; Senior Direc-tor for the Water Global Practice, Director for Sustainable Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region, Sector Manager for Social Development in South Asia Region and subse-quently for Urban Water & Sanitation. He has spent 10 years in the field, first as Deputy Resident Representative and Principal Economist in Johannesburg, and then as Regional Team Leader of the Water and Sanitation Program in New Delhi. In 2004, he was a team member of the World Development Report. Mr. Ahmad first joined the Bank in 1991, working as an Economist in Africa

and Eastern Europe. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from Stanford University, an MPA from Harvard Univer-sity, and a BA from Brown University.

Cynthia Arthur, Head, External Debt Unit, Ministry of Finance of GhanaPresenter ‘Dialogue on Constructive Engagement- The Experience of Ghana’

Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, World Resources InstitutePanelist ‘Social Accountability and the Sustainable Development Goals’. Twitter @ManishBapnaWRI

Manish Bapna is the executive vice president and managing director of the World Resourc-es Institute (WRI) and oversees their programs, chairs the management team and works to strengthen the impact of WRI research. Under his leadership, the institute has established offices in China, India and Brazil and initiated programs on cities, water, adaptation, and the sustainable development goals. Before joining WRI, Manish was executive director of the non-profit Bank Information Centre (BIC). He also served as a senior economist and task team leader at the World Bank, where he led multidisciplinary teams on rural development projects in Asia and Lat-in America. Earlier, he worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company in the financial

services and technology industries. Manish serves on the board of directors of Oxfam America and is the incoming Co-Chair of the Open Government Partnership.

SPEAKER BIOS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Rosário Bento Pais, Head of Unit for Civil Society and Local Authorities, Directorate-General for International Cooperation and DevelopmentPanelist ‘Inclusive Institutions for Development Impact’

Rosario Bento Pais is Head of the Civil Society and Local Authorities Unit in the European Com-mission, Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development. Before that she was Head of Unit in the Climate Action Directorate-General for 5 years, member of the Cabinet of the Commissioner for agriculture, Mrs Fischer Boel, from 2004 to 2007, assistant to the Direc-tor-General in DG ENV in 2008 and Deputy-Head of the international unit for the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Before joining the European Commis-sion, she was a civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal. She has a degree in International relations and a master’s degree in European Law.

Thomas Carothers. Vice President, Carnegie Endowment for International PeacePresenter ‘Keynote Remarks’

Thomas Carothers is Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He directs the Democracy and Rule of Law Program and oversees several other pro-grams, including Carnegie Europe in Brussels, the Energy and Climate Program, and the D.C.-based Europe Program. He is the author of six critically acclaimed books and many articles in prominent journals and newspapers. He has previously served as chair of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) Global Advisory Board and currently serves as a board member of the Open Society Initiative for Europe. He is a distinguished visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest and was previously a visiting faculty member at Oxford University, and

Johns Hopkins SAIS. Prior to joining the Endowment, Carothers practiced international and financial law at Arnold & Porter and served as an attorney adviser in the office of the legal adviser of the U.S. Department of State.

John Gaventa, Research Director, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UKPresenter ‘Forum Insights. Twitter @JohnGaventa

Professor John Gaventa is a political sociologist, educator and civil society practitioner with over 30 years of experience in research, teaching, facilitation, and organisational leadership. Currently Director of Research at the Institute of Development Studies, he previously served as Director of the Coady International Institute and Vice President of International Development at St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Prior to that, he was a Fellow in the Power, Participation and Social Change team at IDS, and Director of the Development Research Centre on Citizen-ship, Participation and Accountability, based at IDS. Linking research and practice, he has written and worked extensively on issues of citizenship and citizen engagement, power and participa-

tion, governance and accountability, and leadership for social change. A former Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Prize Fellow, in 2011 he also received the Tisch Civic Engagement Research Prize for his distinguished scholarship on civic learning, citizen participation and engaged research.

Carl Gershman. President, National Endowment for DemocracyPanelist ‘Inclusive Institutions for Development Impact’

Carl Gershman is President of the National Endowment for Democracy since its 1984 found-ing. He has overseen the creation of the quarterly Journal of Democracy, International Forum for Democratic Studies, and the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program. In 1999, he took the lead in launching the World Movement for Democracy in New Delhi; a global network of democracy practitioners and scholars. Prior to assuming the position with NED, Mr. Gershman served as the U.S. Representative to the U.N.’s Committee on human rights. Furthermore, he was a Resident Scholar at Freedom House and Executive Director of Social Democrats, USA. He has received numerous awards including The Order of the Knight’s Cross, Government of

Poland; President’s Medal, George Washington University and The Distinguished Person for Advancing Democracy in China, Chinese Education Democracy Foundation. He has a BA from Yale University and a M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Jeff Hall, Freelance Consultant and Researcher Chair ‘Social Accountability and the Sustainable Development Goals’

Jeff Hall is an Independent Consultant and Researcher, providing expertise in transparency, ac-countability and citizen engagement to the World Bank, UN agencies, non-profits and universi-ties. Formerly, he was Director of Local Advocacy and Deputy Advocacy Director for the Middle East and Eastern Europe, both at World Vision International. In his capacity, he oversaw World Vision’s local advocacy, participatory governance, and social accountability work in 93 countries. Prior to joining World Vision, Mr. Hall served as a lawyer with the Inter-American Court for Hu-man Rights and worked in grassroots development and human rights activism in North America, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. From 1999-2003 he worked as assistant coordinator

for Women in Development Program. He has a BA in Political Science from the University of Georgia and a Juris Doctor in Law from the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Robert Oswald Intseful, Planning Officer, Planning and Budget Unit, Ghana Education Service, Ministry of EducationPresenter ‘Dialogue on Constructive Engagement- The Experience of Ghana’

Robert Intseful works as a Planning Officer with the Planning and Budget Unit of the Ghana Education Service under the Ministry of Education. He holds a Higher National Diploma at Accra Polytechnic, a Bachelor of Management at the University of Cape Coast, and a Certificate of Professional Development in Results Based Management and Performance Indicators, awarded by the Management Development International of Illinois State University. His dedication and commitment to work sets him apart from his colleagues and he emerged as best worker at GES Headquarters in 2009. Currently, he is the Acting Head of the Planning at the Ghana Education Service Headquarters and also a facilitator of School Performance Partnership Plan (SPPP)

Model being sponsored by the World Bank under Secondary Education Improvement Programme (SEIP). Robert Intseful serves a member on the Project steering Commitment of Send Ghana, a Civil Society Organization (CSO) sponsored by the World Bank.

Margaret Kakande, Head, Budget Monitoring and Accountability Unit, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, UgandaPanelist ‘Social Accountability and the Sustainable Development Goals’

Margaret Kakande is the Head of the Budget Monitoring and Accountability Unit under the Min-istry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. Previously, she coordinated the Energy for Rural Transformation project’s monitoring and evaluation component, under the Ministry of Energy and Mineral development. Ms. Kakande has lectured at Makerere University and served the government as a Social Infrastructure Economist, Social Policy Advisor. From 1996 to 2008, she headed the Poverty Monitoring and Analysis Unit. She is the out-going President of the Uganda Evaluation Association and is a member of the Council for Economic Empowerment of Women and a member of the Board of Directors for Development Research and Training (DRT)

among others. She holds a masters in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia and a Bachelor of Statistics from Makerere University and a post-graduate diploma in feminist development economics from the Institute of Social Sciences, The Netherlands.

Sowmya Kidambi, Director, Society for Social Audit, Accountability and Transparency (SSAAT)Panelist ‘Inclusive Institutions for Development Impact’. Twitter @sowmyakidambi

Sowmya is currently the Director of SSAAT (Society for Social Audit, Accountability and Trans-parency), Department of Rural Development, Government of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh (India) set up to facilitate the social audit of Government Schemes. Prior to joining SSAAT, from 2006 onwards she worked with the erstwhile State of Andhra Pradesh to institutionalize the social audit process as part of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. From 1998-2006, Ms. Kidambi worked at with the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) based in Rajasthan, India. MKSS played an important role in the formulation and passage of the right to information and the employment guarantee laws in India. She holds a masters in Social Work

(Urban and Rural Community Development) from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, India and a Diplo-ma in Human Rights from Columbia University, New York.

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank GroupPresenter ‘Forum Opening.’ Twitter @JimKim_WBG

Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D. is the 12th president of the World Bank Group. Soon after he assumed his position in July 2012, the organization established goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to boost shared prosperity for the poorest 40 percent of the population in developing countries. Kim’s career has revolved around health, education, and delivering services to the poor. Before joining the World Bank Group, Kim, a physician and anthropologist, served as the president of Dartmouth College and held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. From 2003 to 2005, as director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department, he led the “3 by 5” initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which

greatly helped to expand AIDS treatment in developing countries. In 1987, Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a non-profit medical organization that now works in poor communities on four continents. Kim has received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, has been recognized as one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report, and TIME magazine in 2006 named Kim among its “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Olav Kjørven, Director, Public Partnerships, UNICEFPanelist ‘Social Accountability and the Sustainable Development Goals’. Twitter: @olavkjorven

Olav Kjørven is Director of UNICEF’s Public Partnerships Division. Formerly, Mr. Kjørven held a number of senior positions within the United Nations, including as the Special Adviser to the Administrator of the UDNP on the Post-2015 agenda and the Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau for Development Policy, leading UNDP’s work on accelerating progress towards the MDG’s and advancing the Post-2015 agenda. As Director of Policy for UNDP he was a senior advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the ‘Sustainable Energy For All’ initiative and led the UN’s engagement with the G20 Development Working Group. Before this appointment, Mr. Kjørven was the head of UNDP’s Environment and Energy Group. He also served as State

Secretary for International Development with the Government of Norway. He began his career in development as an Environmental Specialist with the World Bank. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from George Washington University.

Besinati Mpepo, Technical Director, Local Advocacy, World Vision InternationalPanelist ‘Social Accountability and the Sustainable Development Goals’. Twitter @Besinati

Besinati Mpepo is World Vision International’s Technical Director for Social Accountability. She oversees the scale out, adaptation and innovation of Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), World Vision’s approach to social accountability that is currently implemented in over 630 programmes across 48 countries. Over the past couple of years, Ms Mpepo has led World Vision’s policy engagement on citizen engagement in accountability for the Agenda 2030, with a focus on the often left behind - including children and young people. From 2007, Ms. Mpepo held senior positions in World Vision UK, prior to which she was the first Executive Director of the Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) network in Zambia, responsible for coordinating Zambian

civil society input to the country’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy and follow on national development plans and was instrumental in promoting citizen and CSO engagement in monitoring and accountability for pro-poor national development policy.

Meskerem (Lily) Mulatu, Acting Practice Manager for Education, West-Africa region, World BankChair ‘Dialogue on Constructive Engagement- The Experience of Ghana’

Meskerem Mulatu, an Ethiopian national, joined the World Bank as part of the Young Profes-sionals Program in 1993. In September 2014, she started her latest assignment in the Education Global Practice as a Lead Education Specialist focusing on West and Central Africa, and most recently as the Acting Practice Manager for the unit. Prior to that, she served in the Europe and Central Asia region as the Sector Leader for the South Caucasus, and spent time as the Lead Education Specialist working on Romania and the South Caucasus. She has a Bachelor degree from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School

at Princeton University. Ms. Mulatu served as the World Bank’s representative to the Secretariat for Financing for Development at UN, and spent a year assigned by the World Bank as an adviser to the Superintendent of Schools for the city of Washington, DC.

Sanjay Pradhan, CEO, Open Government PartnershipPanelist ‘Inclusive Institutions for Development Impact’. Twitter @SanjayPradhan99

Sanjay Pradhan is the CEO of Open Government Partnership. Prior to this appointment he worked in the World Bank as Vice President for Leadership, Learning and Innovation. During this time he was also a member of the President’s Senior Management Team. Previously, Mr. Pradhan was the Vice President leading the World Bank Institute where he championed an open development approach centered around knowledge, learning, collaboration and innovation. In addition, he served as the World Bank’s Director for Governance, where he led the development of the Bank’s Governance and Anticorruption Strategy. He has authored numerous publications including being a principal author of the 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Chang-

ing World. He has addressed major high-level forums including the European Parliament, the British House of Commons, the BBC World Debate, and the TED Global Conference. He holds a PhD and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

Vijayendra Rao, Lead Economist, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank Presenter ‘Framing Presentation: Learning for Adaptive Management’. Twitter @bijurao

Vijayendra Rao is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He integrates his training in economics with theories and methods from anthropology, sociology and political science to study extreme poverty. Dr. Rao has published on a variety of subjects, including participatory development, village democracy and deliberation, and inter-disciplinary approaches to public policy. He co-authored the World Bank’s Policy Research Report on Lo-calizing Development: Does Participation Work? He heads the Social Observatory, a multi-dis-ciplinary approach to build adaptive learning in large-scale participatory projects. He has a BA in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Bombay, a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and

taught at the Universities of Chicago, Michigan and Williams College before joining the World Bank. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), and affiliated with research institutes and NGOs worldwide.

Mark Robinson, Global Director, Governance, World Resources InstitutePresenter ‘Update on the GPSA’. Twitter @markrWRI

Mark is Global Director, Governance at World Resources Institute. In this capacity, Mark is respon-sible for leading WRI’s Governance Center and providing strategic and intellectual leadership around analysis, strategy, fundraising and management. Mark’s career in international develop-ment spans more than 25 years. He has held a number of leadership and management roles, most recently at the UK Department for International Development (DFID) where he led a large group of governance and conflict professionals and served as deputy director of the Research and Evidence Division. Mark has extensive research and applied policy experience on gover-nance, transparency and conflict issues. He previously held senior positions at the Institute for

Development Studies, Ford Foundation, and the Overseas Development Institute. Mark holds a PhD Comparative Politics, an MA in Agrarian Relations both from the University of Sussex and a BA honors degree in Social and Po-litical Science from the University of Cambridge.

Jonas Rolett, Special Advisor to the Chairman, Open Society FoundationsPresenter ‘Review of Forum Day One’

Jonas Rolett is special advisor to the chairman of the Open Society Foundations, George Soros. He has particular expertise in Eastern Europe and has worked extensively on governance, elec-tions, civil society, and development issues. Prior to joining Open Society, Rolett worked for the National Democratic Institute on election monitoring, civic engagement, parliamentary represen-tation, and political party development. Before that, Rolett ran a U.S.-based campaign training school for candidates and campaign managers. He also has a background in communications work and publishing. Rolett received his BA in literature and psychology from the University of North Carolina.

Roby Senderowitsch, Manager, Leadership, Learning and Innovation Client Services Department (LLI), World Bank Moderator ‘Government Gathering’. Twitter @RSenderowitsch

Roby Senderowitsch currently serves as Manager of Leadership, Learning & Innovation, Country Client Services. Previously he served as Program Manager of the Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA). He has also held the position as Country Manager of the World Bank in the Dominican Republic. His work in the Bank has included a strong focus on political economy analysis, building coalitions for change, anti-corruption, and performance-based management of public institutions. Before joining the Bank, Roby work with several NGOs in Argentina and Cuba, where he served as the Field Representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Commit-tee. He has been a lecturer in Human Resource management in nonprofit organizations, as well as director of educational programs and community development and human resource manage-

ment in the private sector.

Gilbert Sendugwa, Programme Coordinator, Africa Freedom of Information CentrePanelist ‘Inclusive Institutions for Development Impact’. Twitter @GilbertSendugwa

Gilbert Sendugwa is currently Programme Coordinator at Africa Freedom of Information Centre. In 2009, Gilbert helped lead the Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa (TISDA) project, implemented by Transparency International, aiming to halt corruption in public services. Prior to this, Mr. Sendugwa has worked as Country Programme Coordinator at the ILO, working on CSO capacity building, training and advocacy. From 2003-2005, he was Programme Coordinator of the Legal Aid Project at the Uganda Law Society. Previously, he worked in the Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment as Information, Education and Communications Coordinator and has held the position of Programme Officer for Save the Children UK. He has a BA in Social Work and Social Administration at Makerere University, Uganda, a Diploma in Project Planning and Manage-

ment and a masters in Management Studies, both from Uganda Management Institute.

Danny Sriskandarajah. Secretary General, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen ParticipationPanelist ‘Inclusive Institutions for Development Impact’. Twitter @CIVICUSSG

Dr. Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah is Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS. His previous posts include Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Interim Director of the Common-wealth Foundation, and Deputy Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research. In 2015, he served on the UN High Level Panel on humanitarian finance. Danny has written numerous reports and academic articles on international migration and economic development. He appears regular-ly in the media on a range of topics, including contributing regularly to Al Jazeera, Guardian and Huffington Post. He sits on several boards, including those of the Baring Foundation, International Alert and Ockenden International, and has been a consultant to several international organizations. He holds a degree from the University of Sydney, and an MPhil and DPhil from the University of

Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2012, he was honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.

Jeff Thindwa, Practice Manager, Open and Collaborative Governance, World BankPresenter ‘Update on GPSA’. Twitter @JeffThindwa

Jeff Thindwa is Practice Manager for Open and Collaborative Governance in the World Bank’s Governance Global Practice. He joined the World Bank in 2000 as Senior Social Development Specialist and later led the Participation and Civic Engagement Cluster in the Social Devel-opment Department. In 2009 he joined the Bank’s South Asia Region to help integrate social accountability in operations, and to develop the ‘Program on Accountability in Nepal’-PRAN. In 2010 Mr. Thindwa joined The World Bank Institute, and became Manager of the Social Account-ability Practice in 2012. Prior to the Bank he worked 18 years in international development in Malawi, the US and the UK, following a career in law in the Malawi government and in the private sector.

Jos Verbeek, Adviser, Office of the World Bank Group President’s Special Envoy on Post 2015 Development Issues Panelist ‘Social Accountability and the Sustainable Development Goals’. Twitter @jverbeek62

Jos Verbeek is adviser in the office of the World Bank Group President’s Special Envoy on Post 2015 development issues. Prior to this assignment he was acting manager and lead economist in the prospects group of the development economics vice presidency also at the World Bank. In that capacity he managed the Global Monitoring Report, a joint WBG and IMF flagship publica-tion that monitored and reported on policies and institutions that could facilitate attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. Preceding to this assignment, he was a lead economist in the Africa region working primarily on Uganda, Zambia and Malawi. Earlier country assignments include Poland and the Baltic countries. Leading up to his country economics work, Jos was an economist in the development economics vice presidency working on macroeconomic modeling.

Jos holds a PhD in economics from the Tinbergen Institute of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Nether-lands.

Jan Walliser, Vice President, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, World BankPresenter ‘Closing Remarks’. Twitter @JanWalliser_WB

Jan Walliser is the Vice President for the World Bank’s Global Practices covering Finance & Markets, Governance, Macroeconomics & Fiscal Management, Poverty, and Trade & Competitive-ness. Prior to this appointment, he was Director of Strategy and Operations in the Bank’s Africa Region providing strategic leadership and operational guidance to staff working on 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, he managed a team of economists working in central and western Africa, which advised governments on macroeconomic policies and supported debt re-lief for several fragile states. Before joining the World Bank in 2002, Jan was an economist at the IMF and a Principal Analyst at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Jan has published in a range of professional economic journals on intergenerational aspects of fiscal policy, tax reform and aid

effectiveness. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University and a Diplom-Volkswirt degree from Kiel University, Germany.

Deborah Wetzel, Senior Director, Governance Global Practice, World Bank Chair ‘Inclusive Institutions for Development Impact’

Deborah Wetzel is the Senior Director for the Governance Global Practice. Most recently, Ms. Wetzel was the Director of Strategy and Operations for the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank. She also served as World Bank Country Director for Brazil from 2012 to 2015. Prior to this assignment, Ms. Wetzel worked as the World Bank Group’s Chief of Staff in Wash-ington and as Director for Governance and Public Sector in the Poverty Reduction and Econom-ic Management Network. From 2006 to 2009, she led the World Bank’s Economic and Public Sector Programs in Brazil. Prior to joining to World Bank she worked at the Centre for the Study of African Economies in Oxford, England in the early 1990s. She has a D.Phil in Economics from

the University of Oxford, a Masters in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from Smith College.

Dennis Whittle, Director and Founder, Feedback Labs Presenter ‘Framing Presentation: Learning for Adaptive Management’. Twitter @DennisWhittle

Dennis is co-founder and director of Feedback Labs, a non-profit organization. Previously, he worked as Lead Economist and Senior Partner at the World Bank, where his team created Inno-vation and Development Marketplaces which have been replicated in over 100 countries. He also co-founded GlobalGiving, the first global crowdfunding and crowdsourcing website, where he was CEO from 2000-2010. He has since served as Executive Chairman of Ashoka Changemakers, Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University, Robin Richards Donohoe Professor of the Practice and Entrepreneur in Residence at UNC-Chap-el Hill, and Board Director of Internews. In 1984-85, Dennis worked for the Asian Development

Bank and USAID in the Philippines, where he was an extra in the Chuck Norris film, Missing in Action. He has a BA in Religious Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and an MPA from the Woodrow Wil-son School at Princeton.

Yongmei Zhou, Co-Director, World Development Report on Governance and LawPresenter ‘World Development Report 2017’

Yongmei Zhou is a Co-Director of the World Development Report on Governance and the Law. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley before joining the World Bank as a Young Professional in 1999. Her operational work was focused on gover-nance reform and institutional development in Africa, South Asia and the fragile and conflict-af-fected states. Her analytical work was focused on the issues of corruption, legislature, decentral-ization, and service delivery.

ABOUT THE GPSAThe Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) supports civil society and governments to work together to solve critical governance challenges in developing countries.

Through funding and knowledge products, the GPSA provides strategic and sustained assistance to CSO’s social accountability initiatives aimed at strengthening transparency and accountability. The GPSA proposes a pragmatic problem-solving approach to social accountability, grounded in realistic theories of change and monitoring and evaluation frameworks.

Hosted by the World Bank, the GPSA is a Global Partnership, a unique global multi-stakeholder community that brings together a powerful segment of organizations committed to- and engaged in- promoting transparency, responsive government, citizen participation in policy decision-making and implementation.

GLOBAL PARTNERS5th PillarABONGAccion CiudadanaAccountability InitiativeAccountability LabACOSOFAdvocacy and Policy InstituteAFE ColombiaAffiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia and PacificAfrica Freedom of Information CentreAfrican Child Policy ForumAfrican Humanitarian CouncilAga Khan Foundation Agora PartnershipsAkvoAl BawsalaAlianza ONGAMAN (Transparency Palestine)AnesvadApplied Research Institute – Jerusalem Society (ARIJ)Article XIXAsociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ)Asociación por los Derechos CivilesAssociation of African Women for Research and Devel-opment (AAWORD)Bandung Institute for Governance StudiesBank Information CenterBertelsmann StiftungBlue Ribbon BMW FoundationBond UKBundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen (Association of German Foundations)Bureau Oecuménique d’Appui au Développement (BOAD)CARE BangladeshCARE EgyptCARE International CARE MalawiCARE MarocCarnegie Endowment for International PeaceCCOCCDD-GhanaCEBRAP Centro Brasileiro de Análise e PlanejamentoCenter for Democracy Initiative Sudan (CDIS)Center for Global Prosperity at the Hudson InstituteCenter for Health Policies and Studies (PAS Center)Center for Inclusive GovernanceCenter for Innovations for Successful Societies at Princeton UniversityCenter for International Development - Harvard Uni-versityCenter for Women in Governance (CEWIGO)Centre d’Appui pour le Développement Economique et Social (CADES)Centre for Peace and Democracy (CEPAD)Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI)Centro de Contraloría Social y Estudios de la Construc-ción Democrática (CCS CIESAS)

Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo (CLAD)

ChemonicsCidade DemocraticaCitizen Engagement for Social Service DeliveryCitizen’s Campaign for Right to InformationCiudadanos Al DiaCIVICUSCivil Society for Poverty ReductionCivil Society Forum of TongaCollectif Marocain du Volontariat (Moroccan Network of Volunteering Work)Columbia University Mailman School of Public HealthCommunity Action NetworkConcern Universal MozambiqueConcerned Citizens of Abra for Good Governance (CCAGG)Consejo de la Prensa PeruanaConsortium of Christian Relief and Development Asso-ciation (CCRDA)Consumers Union of TajikistanContas AbertasControla Tu GobiernoConvention de la Societe Civile (CSCI)CordaidCorpacion OcasaCorruption Free Society CUTS InternationalDeutsche Boerse AG (Germany Stock Exchange)Development Policy InstituteDfID - Department for International Development DI (Confederation of Danish Industry)DiXiEastern Partnership Civil Society ForumElimu Yetu CoalitionEmbraer Institute for Education and ResearchEnough is enough Equity for ChildrenETHOS InstituteEurasia Foundation of Central Asia – European CommissionEuropean Venture Philanthropy AssociationEXPERT GRUPFOMICRESFOPRIDEHFord FoundationFoundation For the FutureFundación AvinaFundación CIDEALFundacion Comunitaria Centro de Informacion y Re-cursos para el Desarrollo (CIRD)Fundación Intermón OxfamFundacion MultitudesFUNDARGates FoundationGeorgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Devel-opment and Evaluation (GUI2DE)German Marshall Fund Ghana Integrity InitiativeGlobal Good Fund

Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency GIFTGlobal IntegrityGlobe International NGOGoGo FoundationGoogle Web AcademyGovFacesGrassroots Research and Advocacy MovementGrupo de Institutos Fundações e EmpresasGuideStarHadassah InternationalHelpAge InternationalHelvetasHIVOSICCOICJ -The Kenya Section of the International Commis-sion of JuristsIDAY International IDSIED AfriqueIFEHS - Initiative for Food, Environment and Health SocietyInstitute for International Urban Development Instituto Ágora em Defesa do Eleitor e da DemocraciaInstituto de Desarrollo y ComunicaciónINTEC/CEGESIntegraIntegrity ActionInterActionInter-American Development BankInter-American DialogueInter-American FoundationInternational Association of African NGOsInternational Center for JournalistsInternational Centre for Sport SecurityInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Cres-cent SocietiesInternational Institute of Rural ReconstructionInternational Planned Parenthood FederationInternational Rescue CommitteeIO SustainabilityIPO “Ecopartnership”JDC Joint Distribution CommitteeJerusalem Intercultural CenterJohns Hopkins Center for Civil Society StudiesKeystone AccountabilityKonrad Adenauer Stiftung (Konrad Adenauer Founda-tion)Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND)Laboratorio de Politicas PublicasL’Association Pour le Soutien à la Démocratie des Communautés Africaines (ASDECA)Latin Grammy Cultural FoundationLautman FundLebanese Transparency AssociationLiberty 32Linking the Youth of Nigeria through Exchange (LYNX)LIRNEasiaLlorente y CuencaMaking All Voices CountMalawi Economic Justice NetworkManagement Sciences for HealthManusher Jonno FoundationMEXFAMMexicanos PrimeroMIT Governance LabMo Ibrahim Foundation

NamatiNational Democratic InstituteNatural Resource Governance InstituteNature KenyaNestleNetafimNew AmericaNew Rules for Global FinanceNew York University/Wagner’s Research Center for Leadership in ActionNGO Platform of Cape VerdeNigeria Network of NGOs (NNNGO)ODACOpen Contracting PartnershipOpen Government Partnership Open Society FoundationsOr YarokOrganization of African Instituted ChurchesOrganization of American StatesOverseas Development InstituteOxfam InternationalOxfam TajikistanPacific Islands Association of NGOs (PIANGO)Palestinian Consultative Staff for NGOsParticipatory Research in Asia (PRIA)Partners In HealthPartners JordanPartnership for Transparency FundPeople In NeedPersone Come Noi (PCN)Peter Ustinov Stiftung (Peter Ustinov Foundation)PhilipsPhineoPlan InternationalPolicy ForumPowerComPrecision Development Research and Advocacy Con-sultants Public Affairs CentrePublic and Private Development CenterPublish What You PayRebootRed Argentina para la Cooperación Internacional (RACI)Rede Nossa Sao PauloREDLADRehoboth Foundation Inc.Reproductive Health UgandaResults for DevelopmentRhodes UniversityRoot ChangeRTISANPRODEVSave the ChildrenScytlSekondi-Takoradi Chamber of Commerce & Industry GhanaSEND-GhanaSGS - Société Générale de SurveillanceSimaviSindh Education FoundationSocial Impact Lab (former FrontlineSMS)Social Value InternationalSocial Value UKSociety for Democratic InitiativesSouthern Africa Trust

STARS FoundationState Accountability and Voice Initiative (SAVI)States of MindSunlight FoundationSynergosTajikistanTakamol Foundation for Sustainable DevelopmentTeach For AllThe Asia FoundationThe Engine RoomThe Hunger ProjectThe Transparency and Accountability InitiativeThe World Bank GroupThink Tanks & Civil Societies Program of the Lauder Institute at the University of PennsylvaniaThinkWell GlobalTodos Pela EducaçãoTransparencia por ColombiaTransparency InternationalTransparency International KenyaTransparency International Rwanda Transparency International UkraineTransparency International Zambia Transparency MarocTransparency MexicanaTrinidad and Tobago Manufactures’ AssociationTrinity CollegeTrocaireTrustAfricaTwawezaUganda National Health Consumers Organization (UNHCO)Uganda National NGO ForumUNICEFUniEthosUnion Generale Tunisienne de Travail (UGTT)United Nations Division for Public Administration and Development Management (UNDESA)United WayUniversidad de San AndresUniversity of BotswanaVan Leer InstituteVital VoicesVNG InternationalVSO InternationalWahana Visi IndonesiaWater Integrity NetworkWater Witness InternationalWhite Ribbon AllianceWomen in Parliaments Global ForumWorld Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)World LearningWorld Resources InstituteWorld Vision InternationalWorld Wide Web FoundationYADE - Youth Association for Development & Environ-mentYoung Americas Business TrustYouth for Social DevelopmentZimbabwe Civil liberties and Drug Network