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Africa-related Events in the Washington, D.C.
Metro Area
Policy . Politics . Business . Trade . Finance
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"Making
Leaders".
ALPN founder/director, Dr. Michael Isimbabi's
letter in
The Economist,
24 July 2003
African Leadership
& Progress Briefs
New
The Mo Ibrahim African Governance Index and
Leadership Prize Revisited: How Dr. Ibrahim and Other Well-Off
Africans Can Best Foster Good Governance in African Countries
Addressing Africa’s
Humiliation: 'Brain Gain'/'Brain Circulation' Diaspora Networks for
African Progress
After the 2005 G8 and UN Summits: Independent,
High-Impact Information Infrastructures and Networks for
Transparency and Accountability in African Countries
Leadership & Governance Capacity Building in
African Countries: Why and How Well-Off and Accomplished
Africans, Especially "Brain Drain" Africans, Should Proactively Take
Charge of Fostering African Progress
Research/Information Portal
New The
Mo Ibrahim African Governance Index and Leadership Prize -
Commentaries & Critiques
New Illicit
Capital Flows, Tax Evasion, and African Development
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Brain Drain, Brain Gain,
Brain Circulation, Diaspora Africans, and Capacity Building in
Africa
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Perspectives on African Leadership, NEPAD, the
African Union, Etc.
Governance - Transparency - Corruption - The
Resource Curse
Initiatives
Africa Budget Project
Africa Governance Monitoring and
Advocacy Project
(AfriMAP)
Africa
Governance Inventory (AGI) Web Portal
Bank
Information Center - Africa Program
Business
Action for Africa - Governance & Transparency
Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
G8 Action Plan on Fighting Corruption and Improving Transparency
Global
Financial Integrity
Global
Integrity
Global Integrity Alliance
Global Witness
Governance Links - UNDP
IDASA
International Budget Project
Open Budget
Initiative/Index 2006
Mo Ibrahim
Foundation
Ibrahim Index of African Governance
Publish What You Pay
Coalition
Tax Justice Network for Africa
United Nations Convention against Corruption
World Bank Institute -
Governance & Anti-Corruption
Leadership & Governance Rankings
Links to Websites of Other Initiatives and
Organizations
Articles / Reports / Etc.
For links to more recent
documents, visit:
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The
Mo Ibrahim African Governance Index and Leadership Prize -
Commentaries & Critiques
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Illicit
Capital Flows, Tax Evasion, and African Development
Transparency
Can Alleviate Poverty.
George Soros.
Financial Times. "...Countries that are rich in
natural resources are often poor because exploiting those resources
takes precedence over good government. Competing oil and mining
companies, backed by their governments, have often been willing to
deal with anyone who could assure them of a concession. This has
bred corrupt and repressive governments and armed conflict. In
Africa, civil wars have devastated resource-rich countries such as
Congo, Angola and Sudan. In the Middle East, democracy has failed to
materialize. Lifting this resource curse could make a large
contribution to alleviating poverty and misery in the world, and
there is an international movement aimed at doing just that. The
first step is transparency; the second is accountability..."
Africa Needs an Al-Jazeera.
Philip Fiske de Gouveia. Foreign Policy.
"...Such an entity
[an independent, indigenous, multimedia, multilingual,
pan-continental broadcasting network – owned and managed by Africans], broadcasting on television, radio, and the
Internet, would push secretive governments toward greater
transparency, foster economic and political ties between distant
parts of the continent, and report honestly on events and trends
affecting Africans..."
Civil Society Improves Governance and
Poverty: Evidence from Six Country Studies.
2007. The International Budget Project and the Institute for
Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, produced in-depth
case studies of six established budget groups in Brazil, Croatia,
India, Mexico, South Africa, and Uganda.
International Budget Project Newsletter.
November-December 2007
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Increasing Synergies between Revenue
Transparency and Budget Monitoring: The Experience of PWYP
Coalitions in Africa by Matteo Pellegrini
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Using the Radio to Mainstream
Budget Transparency, Foro Jóven, Colombia by Rocío Campos
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Social Accountability and Budget Monitoring in
Mozambique by Adriano Nuvunga
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The 2008 Ghana Budget, the Centre for Budget
Advocacy (CBA) of the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC)
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Budget Transparency with a
Gender Focus, Civil Resource Development and Documentation Center (CIRDDOC)
Nigeria by Show Ei Tun
Transparency and Accountability In Africa’s Extractive Industries:
The Role of The Legislature. National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs. 2007
Governments and Companies Must Deliver on Global Transparency
Initiative. Publish What You Pay. 25 February 2008
Transparency and Accountability In Africa’s
Extractive Industries: The Role of The Legislature.
National Democratic Institute for International
Affairs. 2007
Revenue Transparency: Russia vs. Africa.
Bart Mongoven. July 26, 2007.
Governance and Transparency: Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (EITI). PREM/COCPO workshop on Extractive Industry
Issues, May 16 – 17, 2007
Report of the Ad hoc Expert Group
Meeting on “Public Financial Management and Accountability Focusing
on Best Practices in the Context of Budget Transparency.
Economic Commission for Africa. September 2005
Business Action for Africa Submission to the Africa
All-Party Parliamentary Group (UK) on Corruption and Money
Laundering.
UN Treaty To Fight Global Corruption Goes Into Force.
Sep 16,
2005
Oil windfalls bigger than G8 aid.
The Guardian (UK).
September 15, 2005. Windfalls from the rising global price of
oil and other commodities will be worth more to poor countries in
Africa than the doubling of aid promised by the G8 industrial
nations, one of Britain's leading development think-tanks said
yesterday.
Back
to Basics—10 Myths About Governance and Corruption .
Daniel Kaufmann (World Bank).
Finance &
Development,
September
2005
Transparenting Transparency: Initial Empirics and Policy
Applications. A. Bellver and D. Kaufmann (2005). World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper.
Corruption
Takes Two, Wolfowitz Tells Business Leaders.
Text of remarks by World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz at the
Corporate Council on Africa's US-Africa Business Summit dinner,
Baltimore, Maryland, USA. June 23, 2005.
". ..And so let's,
especially those of us from so-called the rich countries, developed
countries, let's hold a mirror up to ourselves and remember every
corrupt transaction has two parties. (Applause.) If I can coin a
term there is a corruptee and there is a corruptor. (Laughter,
applause.) And if the African people and their leaders are stepping
up to the challenge of dealing with the corruptees, we, if I can
speak as a citizen of a developed country - those of us in the
developed world, in fact anywhere in the world, have responsibility
to address corruptors as well. And to help African countries, as the
Nigerian as seeking to do now, to recover the some of the stolen
wealth that is sitting in bank accounts where it doesn't belong.
(Applause.) ..."
Africa isn't poor because of corruption.
The Guardian
(UK). July 18, 2005.
In the
month leading up to the G8, Nigeria revealed that its leaders had
stolen $390bn (£222bn) over the last 40 years. It was a shocking
admission and provided fuel for those critics who say the African
problem is irredeemable largely due to corruption.
G8 backs oil and mining transparency initiative
but actions speak louder than words. Publish What You Pay Coalition.
Transparency International -
Statements on the G-8, Aid,
and Corruption. The G-8 must act decisively: Africa's future hangs
in the balance.
Plug
the leaks - or waste the aid.
Sony Kapoor and John Christiansen. The Guardian. July 11, 2005.
The recent G8 announcements fall far
short of what was needed but they also ignored the equally important
issue of capital flight.
Global Forum Urges Ratification of Anti-corruption Convention.
Final declaration also asks for denial of safe haven to corrupt
officials. [Fourth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption (GF IV),
Brasilia, Brazil]. June 10, 2005
Measuring Transparency in the Extractive Industries.
Publish What You Pay Coalition.
Beyond the Rhetoric - Measuring revenue transparency in the oil and
gas industries. Save the Children UK. April 2005
Freedom of the Press 2005: A Global Survey of Media Independence.
Freedom House
Freedom in the World
2005. Freedom House
Governance Matters IV: Governance Indicators for
1996-2004 - World Bank Institute
World Bank Institute - Presentations on Governance
& Corruption at Various Events & Conferences -- 1999-2005
In Nigeria, Where Money Talks, Reform Is the Word.
Craig Timberg.
The Washington
Post. May 01,
2005
Second Nigerian minister sacked. Nigeria's president
sacks his housing minister, the second top official to go in his
anti-corruption drive. BBC
News. 4 April 2005
Balogun Faces
N13bn 70-Count Charge • Osomo Sacked, Wabara Quits. ThisDay (Nigeria). 5 April 2005
Nigeria's graft fighter -
Nigerian's war against corruption. BBC News. 28 March 2005.
Nuhu Ribadu faces a mammoth task Nigeria
has acquired a terrible worldwide reputation for corruption and
financial crimes, including 419 scams. The BBC's Yusuf Mohammed
profiles the man tasked with fighting the
fraudsters.
Anti-corruption
lessons for Nigerians. 22 June, 2004. Sola Odunfa. BBC, Lagos.
An anti-corruption curriculum is set to be introduced acoss all
public schools and universities in Nigeria.
Follow the
Money: A Guide to Monitoring Budgets and Oil and Gas
Revenues. Open Society Institute. 2005.
Can civil society add value to budget decision-making? A
description of the expanding contribution of civil society
organizations to public budgets in developing
countries. Warren Krafchik. International
Budget Project
Opening Budgets to Public Understanding and Debate:
Results from 36 Countries.
International Budget Project
Other
International Budget Project
publications
Tunnel Vision on Corruption. Moisés
Naím. Washington Post. February 20,
2005
Debunking
Myths on Worldwide Governance and Corruption. Daniel Kaufmann, Director, World Bank Institute’s
Global Programs. February
2005
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