From the ground up : improving government performance with independent monitoring organizations / Stephen Kosack, Courtney Tolmie, and Charles Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kosack, Stephen.

Contributor:

Transparency and Accountability Program.

Results for Development Institute.

Brookings Institution.

Tolmie, Courtney.

Griffin, Charles C., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government accountability--Developing countries.

Government accountability.

Transparency (Ethics) in government--Developing countries.

Transparency (Ethics) in government.

Civil society--Developing countries.

Civil society.

Non-governmental organizations--Developing countries.

Non-governmental organizations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning in 2007, the Transparency and Accountability Project of the Brookings Institution and the Results for Development Institute sponsored 16 "independent monitoring agencies" that "undertook expenditure- or performance- monitoring projects in health and education" in Africa, East and South Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. This book is a compilation of those organizations' findings -- x-xi

Contents:

Improving governance from the ground up

Gather the budget data

Follow the money

Examine the spending

Recommend solutions

Disseminate and advocate

Possibilities and lessons of independent monitoring.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

"The Transparency and Accountability Project was initiated at the Brookings Institution in collaboration with the Results for Development Institute, where it is now permanently located and known as the Transparency and Accountability Program."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612525674

9781282525672

1282525670

9780815704362

0815704364

OCLC:

609862292