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19-Aug-2010
At a 1 March 2010 roundtable, a set of draft strategic principles on international support for elections highlighted the importance of raising discussions around electoral support from a technical to a more strategic level. To this end, these principles will be refined as part of GOVNET’s effort to improve donor support to domestic accountability in time for the 2011 High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness.
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20-Apr-2010
GOVNET was tasked with developing a framework for more effective collective donor responses to corruption. To inform this work, the GOVNET Anti-Corruption Task Team commissioned a study of how donors have responded to corruption in practice, so as to understand better the opportunities, constraints and incentives for more effective collective responses. Case studies in Afghanistan , Indonesia and Mozambique led to a set of recommendations that will inform development of further guidance for collective donor responses. The main report synthesises these findings.
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20-Apr-2010
In response to growing concern, GOVNET and the DAC Fragile States Group (now the International Network on Conflict and Fragility) initiated a discussion on the key issues and challenges related to fighting corruption in fragile states. GOVNET followed-up by initiating an exploration of the complementarities between current approaches towards both statebuilding and fighting corruption in fragile states. The report identifies remaining gaps in research but concludes by outlining what an anti-corruption approach determined by a vision of statebuilding might consist of. See full report.
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23-Jul-2009
Governance, Taxation and Accountability: Issues and Practices provides an overview of the different streams of evidence linking tax policy and governance performance. Not only does it offer insights for the donor community, it explains the need to develop a broad tax base as a means of enhancing the bargaining process between citizens and governments. Finally, it argues that the mobilisation of citizens around taxation issues may be a good avenue to promote further engagement in other public policy matters.
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23-Jul-2009
These Guiding Principles were developed to respond to many of the issues and concerns raised in the Survey of Donor Approaches to Governance Assessment, in order to improve donor impact, usage and harmonisation of governance assessment. They are intended to provide practical advice to governance specialists in donor agencies working on assessments and to donor agency staff working in other sectors who encounter the realities of governance in their work every day. A diverse range of partner country stakeholders involved in assessing governance may also find these principles of value.
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23-Jul-2009
The Sourcebook is a complement to the Principles and is intended to help practitioners navigate the universe of tools and methodologies available in this field. It will be maintained virtually as a living resource on the GOVNET site. It is a compilation of existing donor methodologies and includes links to other related sources.
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22-Jul-2009
Taxation is important for governance because it can stimulate a process of negotiation and bargaining between states and their citizens. Recent work by the OECD DAC GOVNET demonstrates how taxation can contribute to more effective and accountable states.
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