Four years of
empowering communities to monitor aid
In 2011, local community of Sajadia village in Balkh province played a
leading role to improve construction quality of their local school. Mohammad
Ishaq, a community member said, “if we had let the work continue as it
was...More
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Workshop on the role of CSOs
in monitoring of EI
United States Institute of Peace together with Integrity Watch Afghanistan
intends to implement a project in Aynak that aims to empower communities
living close to mining operations to monitor the socio-economic and
governance impacts of extractive industry activities in their environment.
This will be done by developing...More
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Community-Empowerment For Social Change
IWA's Community Based Monitoring program conducted a
three-day training workshop for Local Monitors (LMs) in Herat. The purpose
of the training was to empower elected community members (Local Monitors) to
understand and exercise their civic responsibility in local reconstruction
projects...More
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Afghan Citizens Budget Guide
This guide explains, in simple and easily understood language, the 1390
Budget Statement presented to Parliament by the Minister of Finance on 5
February 2011. The guide is designed to help the general public understand
the budget by explaining what revenues the Government proposes to collect
and how they will be spent...More
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Enhancement of Local Capacity
Integrity Watch
Afghanistan (IWA) conducted Enhancement for Local Capacity (EfLC) training
for Local Monitors (LMs), hosted at the Local Economy Department Nangarhar,
January 9,11. the Objectives for the training was to promote Transparency,
Accountability and Integrity in All Construction projects which are either
Implemented....More
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Impact of Community Based
Monitoring in Herat
Last month in a
meeting with Bagram LMs of Parwan province regarding impact and activities
of CBM, one of the LMs (Mr. Mirbacha) was saying as the social auditing is
going well and community members and government staff are aware -interested
to it...More
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BUSAN PARTNERSHIP FOR EFFECTIVE
DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION
FOURTH HIGH LEVEL FORUM ON AID EFFECTIVENESS, BUSAN, REPUBLIC OF KOREA, 29
NOVEMBER-21 DECEMBER 2011. We, Heads of State, Ministers and representatives
of developing and developed countries, heads of multilateral and bilateral
institutions, representatives of different types of public, civil society,
private, parliamentary, local and regional organisations...More
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Afghanistan Aid Bulletin
DELIVERING AID THROUGH COUNTRY SYSTEMS
Since 2001, Afghanistan has been one of the largest aid recipients in the
world. Approximately US$57 billion has been disbursed for development work
until 2010. At the Kabul Conference in July 2010, the donor community
committed to...More
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Baseline for Aynak
Integrity Watch Afghanistan will be launching a baseline study of Aynak to
capture the impacts of mining on the local population. The research will
assess the economic, cultural, environmental, social and political impacts
of the mining investment. IWA will carry out several surveys over a period
of time in two different locations. The two locations have...More
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Pilot Aid Transparency Index 2011
This is the first
Publish What You Fund index of the actual level of donors’ aid transparency
and follows on from our 2010 Aid Transparency Assessment. The main finding
of the Assessment was that there is a lack of comparable and primary data
available on aid transparency and that there is no systematic, disaggregated
way of assessing the transparency of donors. This pilot index partially
addresses that finding by providing a methodical analysis of donor aid...More
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Citizens and Civil
Society to Governments“Make Budgets Public Now!”
DAR ES SALAAM – On 18 November 2011 nearly 100 civil society
groups from as many countries and 12 international organizations, including
the International Budget Partnership, Greenpeace, and the ONE Campaign, will
launch a global effort to make public budgets transparent...More
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Hope Amid Chaos: Mineral Resources &
Afghanistan’s Economic Future
As Afghanistan opens the doors to its first national park ,
the fate of its rich array of natural resources remains unclear. After three
decades of conflict and civil war, the country is desperate to use its
mineral wealth to get back on its feet. The Afghan government...More
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Afghanistan's Energy War
Violence escalated daily in Afghanistan with the approach of the 10-year
anniversary of the U.S. invasion on October 7. At the same time, a
little-noted energy agenda is moving rapidly forward that may not only deny
Afghans the much needed economic benefits their energy resources could
provide, but may also exacerbate insecurity and instability...More
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Access to Information Roundtable
The right to information is a fundamental concept in
government accountability and fighting corruption. Integrity Watch
Afghanistan welcomes the work that has been done to draft an Access to
Information Law and organised a roundtable to increase citizens and media’s
awareness on this issue...More
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3P Human Security
3P Human Security interviews Karolina Olofsson from Integrity Watch
Afghanistan on her visit to Washington DC.
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Aid Effectiveness in Afghanistan
News stories tell of the cost of war; they highlight the life of
western soldiers, the young western recruiters, the lost western marines,
the lost tax payers’ money but talk seldom about the loss of income, life,
future and opportunities for the people who have to live in the middle of
the war. When people look at the effort that has been put into
Afghanistan...More
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