The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) recently released its first-ever “NGO Sustainability Index” for sub-Saharan Africa. While the research that went into the index shines some useful light on the operating environment facing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa, the index is unfortunately even more useful as an example of how not to build an…
Like many other non-governmental organizations, media, governments, and citizens, we’ve followed the initial release of classified State Department cables by Wikileaks with interest. As further details emerge, Global Integrity Report assessments of the national anti-corruption systems of the countries mentioned in these cables may be of interest. Those assessments can be accessed at http://report.www.globalintegrity.org. —…
As promised a few weeks ago, our FY2009 tax return (in non-profit legalese, our “Form 990”) is now available for review and download on our website.— Global Integrity
“It is easier to teach an advocate how to understand a budget than to teach advocacy to an economist,” argued the International Budget Partnership’s Warren Krafchik at the recent presentation of the group’s Open Budget Survey 2010. His core message: if government transparency and budget accountability are our goals, broader engagement with civil society is…
Since we’re kind of concerned with transparency issues here at Global Integrity (!), we’ve always made our annual audited financials publicly available for download. Our 2009 audited financials are now available on our website, and our FY2009 tax return will also be posted once it is filed in the coming weeks.— Global Integrity
We’re sad to pass along the news that our long-time colleague Norah Mallaney has left Global Integrity to pursue a career in education reform. Norah has taken a new position with the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools here in Washington, DC. We’re in the process of bringing on a couple of new colleagues and hope…