By Alan Hudson — June 20, 2014. The C20 Summit – the key civil society gathering in the run-up to the G20 Leaders’ Summit in November – is currently taking place in Melbourne, Australia. Top of the agenda at the C20 Summit are four sets of issues: Inclusive growth and employment; infrastructure; climate change and…
By Alan Hudson — June 16, 2014. Earlier this month, the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals published the “zero draft” of proposed goals and targets on sustainable development for the post-2015 agenda. They will be discussing this draft at the UN this week (16th June), in the penultimate meeting of the Open…
Since its re-election, the Hungarian government launched a campaign attacking the credibility of Hungarian NGOs and are striving to gain controlling power over their funding distributed independently from the government. We believe that a dynamic and independent civil society plays a fundamental role in a democratic society, as it is one of the key checks and balances to governing power.…
Version française ci-dessous. Global Integrity is preparing to begin research on the 2014-2015 edition of the Africa Integrity Indicators (AII), an annual project undertaken in partnership with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The project assesses key social, economic, political and anti-corruption mechanisms at the national level in all African countries. Employing an expert assessment methodology, the project evaluates…
By Michelle Byamugisha and Monika Shepard — June 5, 2014. Over 20 years ago, Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development proclaimed: “Environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all concerned citizens, at the relevant level. At the national level, each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that…
By Alan Hudson — June 3, 2014. Over the last 10-15 years, the fact that governance – the institutional arrangements and relationships that shape how effectively things get done – plays a central role in shaping countries’ development trajectories has become widely acknowledged (see for instance the World Bank’s World Development Report of 2011). This…