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

• Autore: Kosack Stephen
• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : Brookings Institution Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (135 p.)
• Disciplina: 352.8/8
• Soggetto topico: Government accountability - Developing countries; Transparency in government - Developing countries; Civil society - Developing countries; Non-governmental organizations - Developing countries
• Altri autori: TolmieCourtney GriffinCharles C. <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: From the ground up
• ISBN: 1-282-52567-0; 9786612525674; 0-8157-0436-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792413403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II