Latest News in the GPSA Knowledge Platform

Latest News in the GPSA
Knowledge Platform
Coming Soon!
Webinar: Funding, Learning and Impact: How do
grant-making practices help and hinder real
grantee learning?
June 3, 2015, 10:00-11:30 am EDT
In this webinar, Jenny Ross, author of a recent report
on funding practices and learning, will present
lessons about what works, what doesn’t work, and
what grant-makers and grantees can do to support
and enable learning.
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E-forum: Are we really learning? Making grantmaking practices more conducive to grantee
learning
June 3-24, 2015
This E-forum, moderated by Charlotte Ornemark and
Brendan Halloran, will explore innovative learning
practice, systems for learning (including grant making
practices, internal organizational systems etc.), and
linking learning to impact.
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Blog: Moving towards a strategic approach to
social accountability in post-conflict contexts:
the Tuungane experience in DR Congo
By Isatou Batonon, former GPSA E-Learning course
participant
This blog post will present
Stay tuned! Coming soon here.
What’s new in the GPSA KP
Social Accountability: What does the evidence really say?
Now available in French and Spanish
Jonathan Fox’s working paper is now available in four languages:
English, Arabic, French and Spanish.
Read more
GPSA Note: Does collaboration with civil society strengthen
accountability institutions? An exploration
This note focuses on OIs and SAIs. It is a brief review of
international experience and debate, which took place in our last Eforum “Making accountability processes work: engagement between
civil society and state accountability institutions”.
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Welcoming new members
Why is SAcc relevant in your work?
Andrews Seglah, Project Manager, from the Initiative for Food Environment, Health Society
(IFEHS), Nigeria, has just registered to the Knowledge Platform. The IFEHS seeks to enlighten local
communities to address the environmental, agriculture and health challenges that affect them while
promoting social accountability, cooperation, partnership and networking between government, civil
society and the Public for Sustainable Development program. Andrews believes that SAcc is crucial
because it can help shed lights on how recipients are selected in programs implemented by
government agencies, how much money is spent, how the resources are distributed, etc. He hopes
that the KP allow him to learn best practices from others, learn some tools for social accountability
initiatives and also to share with others.
Tell us why and how SAcc is relevant in your work!
Write to us at [email protected].
Other Updates
XI Foro Latinoamericano sobre
Industrias Extractivas
Mobilizing Accountability: Citizens,
Movements and the State
19 de Mayo 2015, Ciudad de México
El súper ciclo en América Latina: Efectos y
desafíos ante la caída del precio de los
hidrocarburos y minerales
Read More
History and initiatives from Rede Nossa
São Paulo for better cities
This video shows how Rede Nossa São
Paulo aims to build fair, more democratic
and sustainable cities.
In a new Think Piece, Brendan Halloran
(T/AI) and Walter Flores (CEGSS and
COPASAH) re-examine the role of citizens,
organizations and movements, and suggest
ways to support these efforts.
Read more
Call for partner institutions
This CARE International in Egypt and the
Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in
the Arab World (ANSA-AW) call for partner
institutions to design, deliver and sustain TOT
Regional Workshop on Social Accountability.
Watch the video
Read More
Roundtable: The Role of Ombudsman
Institutions in Promoting Citizen-Centric
Governance and Inclusive Institutions
May 11, 2015, Washington, DC
This round-table will share the international
experiences of the Ombudsman Office in
Indonesia and the Ombudsman Office in
Ireland.
Watch the live stream
Video: Open Budgets. Transform Lives.
This IBP’s new video, shows how civil society
advocates used budget analysis and
monitoring to improve government spending
and policies to help the poorest and most
marginalized people in their country.
Watch the video
We would like to thank Aroa de la Fuente, Andrews Seglah, Brendan Halloran, Deidre
Huntington, Delaine McCullough, Oded Grajew and Sima Kanaan for their contribution to this
Latest News.
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platform. Send us your social accountability materials
(toolkits, reports, videos, etc.), disseminate them in the
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events of your organizations and networks.
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Platform, please contact
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