Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Transparency
Predictability
Capacity development
Undermine
education and
health services
When
laws are
not
enforced
When
people
are not
aware
Absentee
teachers
and
doctors
Without
voice
Municipal
officials ask
payment for
legitimate
connection
Implications
Focus on demand-side
governance
Strengthen:
community groups and civil
society (eg, womens groups
ama samuha in Nepal)
Right to Information Act
Engage sub-national
governments
Support:
local accountability mechanisms
(such as social audits),
Build capacity of local
governments (resourcing, tools,
skills, and organizational culture)
In addition to increasing
efficiencies in public
administration, this brings
fundamental changes in
service delivery to
disadvantaged groups
Support:
Digitization of land records
real-time information on
effectiveness of service delivery
democracy
requires an informed
citizenry and
transparency of
information
2. Engage subnational
governments
Support:
local accountability mechanisms (such as social
audits),
develop capacity of local governments
(resourcing, tools, and skills)
Social audit
Process of having use of public resources assessed by
community through a public platform; contributes to
enforcement of accountability
Capacity development
Not just with respect to skills but also giving local
governments the right tools and resources, and changing
organizational culture
Social Audits
The entire village of Kalan Guzar
turned out for the social audit
meeting which was held in a big
compound next to the school and
the clinic. - Photo: AKDN
Capacity development
CD is a process of change about
managing transformations,
including through changing
organizational culture
100%
88%
350
75%
80%
300
70%
67%
250
60%
200
Resourcing amount of $
Tools eg, study of good
practices in social protection
service delivery elsewhere
Skills of service delivery,
control and accountability, etc.
90%
50%
40%
150
30%
100
20%
50
10%
0%
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Total TA
CDTA
Non-CDTA (GCD)
% GCD
2014
(http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/pu
blication/31238/ewp-391.pdf, p. 4)