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Bill Walker and Keren Winterford World Vision Measuring Effectiveness Conference 2008

Civic driven advocacy and empowerment through local political participation, using social accountability. Bill Walker and Keren Winterford World Vision Measuring Effectiveness Conference 2008. Overview. Contested agendas in empowerment, accountability and participation

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Bill Walker and Keren Winterford World Vision Measuring Effectiveness Conference 2008

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  1. Civic driven advocacy and empowerment through local political participation, using social accountability Bill Walker and Keren Winterford World Vision Measuring Effectiveness Conference 2008

  2. Overview • Contested agendas in empowerment, accountability and participation • Empowerment, participation and social accountability in service delivery • Learning from Community Based Performance Monitoring (CBPM) • Emerging civic driven advocacy praxis Citizen Voice and Action • Conclusion

  3. Accountability Institutionalised relationships in which citizens, collectively: • call those responsible to account, for their performance: • answerability. • hold the responsible to account: thus requiring action, including redress, if due • responsibility

  4. Relational aspect of poverty • The poor describe living in poverty in terms of being powerless • They also describe poverty in relational terms – especially relationships with the powerful -mainly, too-unaccountable governments (but also NGOs).

  5. So what is justice? Power Equity Justice Rights Distribution

  6. Social accountability Approaches towards building accountability that rely on civic engagement. This is about civic driven advocacy Essential ingredient of empowerment

  7. Refining Empowerment People, especially the poor are better able to shape their lives We can describe this as citizen capability, as ordinary people, to expand and utilise their rights to participate in and hold accountable, powerful institutions and individuals Empowerment is relational

  8. CBPM Through the CBPM Community Gathering for a local public service, citizens and service providers: - Become informed about government standards for service delivery and use this information to audit these standards. • Diagnose and rate the performance of services currently provided and generate ideas for their reform • - Agree on specific plans for selected reforms.

  9. Citizen Voice and Action

  10. Power through citizen voice and action

  11. Learning about empowerment • Learning about power • Collective political empowerment • Durable empowerment

  12. Learning about participation • Facilitation and support • Inclusion - are the most marginalized and vulnerable being included? • A shift in participation

  13. A shift in participation From beneficiaries to empowered citizens Beneficiary Citizen Project Policy Consultation Decision Making Appraisal Implementation Micro Macro

  14. Learning about accountability • Claimed or offered? • As a relationship • Answerability and responsibility

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