Submitted by Georg Neumann on 18 August, 2010 - 11:30
Dear all,
we are happy to have prepared Transparency International's latest Annual Report, sharing with you some true stories and trying to provide compelling evidence of how the global anti-corruption movement is making concrete gains against corruption.
To have a look at the report, please go to: http://www.transparency.org/ar_2009
Submitted by CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation on 17 August, 2010 - 19:08
CIVICUS has recently developed several initiatives to equip CSOs to improve the legitimacy, accountability and transparency (LTA) in their organisations and networks.
Submitted by Daniel Kaufmann on 12 July, 2010 - 01:41
Sixty-two games have been played at the 2010 World Cup, which has been marvelously hosted by South Africa. Only two games remain; one tomorrow for third place, and then Sunday’s much awaited World Cup Final between Spain and the Netherlands. In a couple of days, we will have a brand new world soccer champion. But its international governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), will still be stuck in the past. FIFA has monopoly control over international soccer, and as this tournament has shown, faces enormous challenges: subpar corporate governance, leadership and transparency. These challenges partly undermine the development objectives of member countries.
Submitted by Claudia Schwegmann on 22 June, 2010 - 17:37
Dear friends:
In 2008 Germany signed the International Aid Transparency Initiative(IATI)- a commitment of donors to provide timely, detailed, standardised data on development cooperation in an open and accessible way. The objective of IATI is to provide enable citizens in donor countries and particularly in recipient countries to hold donors and recipient countries to account for aid monies and to facilitate better planning of aid by recipient countries. Ultimately the purpose of IATI is to enhance aid effectiveness, curb corruption and promote ownership of all stakeholders.
Submitted by Claudia Schwegmann on 5 June, 2010 - 08:39
It is not the lack of knowledge that hampers development aid, but the structure of incentives within the aid system. Aid transparency and civil society engagement are key levers for addressing these problems and improving aid effectiveness.
Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 4 June, 2010 - 17:51
Established international NGOs were well represented at the GRI conference in Amsterdam last week and presumably also in the production of the new NGO Sector Supplement. There is no reason not to see Kabissa members at the grassroots look into and join the GRI process, and also consider integrating sustainability reporting into your own organizational procedures no matter what your size.
Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 21 May, 2010 - 09:31
UPDATE May 28: Panel is today! Thanks everyone who sent in feedback. I have added bullet points of my 3 min presentation of myself below. Look forward to the discussion!
UPDATE May 24: I added talking points below. Please add your examples and ideas!
Next week I am joining some interesting people from The Guardian newspaper, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and others (see below for description and speakers) on a panel discussion at the Amsterdam GRI Conference.
It is a future oriented panel that looks promising - we will be discussing the role of the media in sustainable development and how media organizations are "grappling with measuring and reporting on their own unique media content related sustainability impacts." This is an area new to me so I am coming ready to learn. I will try to slip in some of my own insights (see talking points below) about social media in sustainable development. Let me know if you have any burning issues you'd like me to raise or suggestions.
