Development

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Development Accountability

• New opportunities for Civil Society

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Overview

• Taking stock Where are we in promoting
  development accountability
• Old new strategies for advancing citizen
  participation in decision-making the prevention
  of corruption
• Outlook What can we build on what needs to be
  done differently

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Achievements for CSO Participation

• Agreement on central concerns human rights,
  transparency and accountability
• Stronger recognition of civil society role (AAA)
• Openings for civil society participation in
  policy and implementation
• Central role of citizens and legislatures

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Challenges

• Legitimacy and accountability in question
• Shrinking space (Civicus, Budget Aid)
• Capacity
• Competition
• Limited impact on mainstream

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Approaches to citizen participation

• Different engagement strategies timing, style,
  focus upstream/downstream, partners
• Demanding rights and accountability
• Negotiating inclusion in planning / monitoring
• Focusing on legal frameworks, horizontal
  accountability mechanisms
• Giving a voice Speaking for or with citizens

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Challenges

• Exclusion of political and social movements
• Pro-forma inclusion in decision-making
• Social accountability vs . political
  accountability
• Power structures and backlash
• Domestic solidarity ?

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The Corruption-Democracy-Poverty link

• The corruption of democratic processes results in
  unequal development
• The empowered democratic participation of the
  poor prevents the dominance of the interests of a
  few over the many

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Strengthening links

• Strengthening the democratic dialogue within
  societies
• Embedding strategies in the operational
  mainstream of decision-making
• Addressing jointly the separate debates on
  political rights, social and economic empowerment
  and human rights

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Political Representation today
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TIs approach to corruption in development

• Addresses the accountability of political and
  administrative representatives to citizens
• Uses a rights based approach
• Negotiates participation in decision-making that
  converts election promises to development
  deliverables
• Instruments MoUs, Pledges, DIPs

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Example of 2 tools

• Development Integrity Pacts
• Citizen participation in political processes
• Bargaining power based on basic political rights
• Partnerships for Change
• Citizen participation in administrative processes
  
• Bargaining power depends on laws or
  administrative provisions, aid modalities etc.

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Development Integrity Pacts

• Pacts between citizens and political
  representatives on development promises
• Shaping and covering all links of the
  decision-making chain
• Containing concrete time-bound commitments on
• institutionalised, informed inclusive
  participation
• institutional reforms to mainstream incentives
  for accountability (decentr., SEZ, MCA, MoU)

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Partnerships for Change

• Pacts based on legal/adm. frameworks between
  citizens and administrations
• Covering decision-making from policy to
  implementation and monitoring
• Examples of commitments
• Citizen, community, CSO participation (Round
  tables, SPSP, Pov.Obs., PRSPs)

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Outlook

• Working more effectively with others
• Complementarities (politial access
  constitutencies)
• Examples of ongoing dialogues (Kenya, India)
• Learning from your experiences networks,
  strategies, tactics
• Arriving at ideas to strengthen impact using
  DIPs as the envelope to scale up existing pilots?

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Group Work

• Sharing how impact could be achieved
• What role networks played
• What accountability relations were addressed
• What made the difference