Comment on Keeping it real: sub-national budget transparency by Owen Barder
Thanks Sarah. You are right that the evidence suggests that accountability is more effective at sub-national and local levels, because that it the level at which policy can be tested against people’s...
View ArticleComment on 0.7 is arbitrary? Well, there’s a random accusation by Owen Barder
I am not clear why “accepted” is the opposite of “arbitrary”. It could be both, no?
View ArticleComment on 0.7 is arbitrary? Well, there’s a random accusation by Amy...
Thanks Owen. I think arbitrary implies that the number has come out of nowhere – ie that it has just been pulled out of thin air. What I’m trying to get at with an accepted number is the idea that...
View ArticleComment on Keeping it real: sub-national budget transparency by Sarah Barnett
Hi Owen, thanks for the comment and for sharing how there is already a strong focus on the sub-national within the aid transparency debate. I didn’t mean to imply with my final sentence that no one is...
View ArticleComment on We need to be clear on what happens with the SDGs once Rio+20 is...
Thanks for the blog post. I agree with the Colombian proposal and I strongly feel that those of us in the Global South need more time to do meaningful stakeholder involvement and consultations with...
View ArticleComment on Cooperation for advocacy: donkey rules by Janet Gunter (@JanetGunter)
This story sounds *vaguely* familiar! I would say as somebody who is no longer working as a major donor organization in this context, donors have a role to play as well. These CSOs you are referring to...
View ArticleComment on Rio+20: Joining the crowds in the Samba City by...
Reblogged this on <a href="http://blog.caritas.org/2012/06/19/8326/" rel="nofollow">Caritas Internationalis</a>.
View ArticleComment on Rio+20: Joining the crowds in the Samba City by Elaine Ireland
Sightsavers is also in Rio this week. We’re hoping that we can show why and how disabled people need to be involved in sustainable development discussions and are also supporting efforts to make sure...
View ArticleComment on Accounting for aid: Get off DFID’s back by waterdamageorlandofl.com
Its like you read my mind! You seem to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with a few pics to drive the message home a little bit, but other...
View ArticleComment on Accounting for aid: Get off DFID’s back by Wassermatratzen
Magnificent goods from you, man. I have understand your stuff previous to and you’re just too great. I actually like what you have acquired here, certainly like what you’re stating and the way in which...
View ArticleComment on UN All Africa Parliamentarians Conference, Addis Ababa by Amy...
[...] Amy Pollard’s recent speech at the UN’s All Africa Parliamentarians Conference, in Addis Ababa, 21st-25th May 2012. Share [...]
View ArticleComment on Celebrations for South Sudan? by South Sudan: One Year After...
[...] Rees identifies problems facing South Sudan. He says that not all problems can be blamed on actions of her neighbors: [...]
View ArticleComment on Celebrations for South Sudan? by South Sudan: One Year After...
[...] Rees identifies problems facing South Sudan. He says that not all problems can be blamed on actions of her [...]
View ArticleComment on Celebrations for South Sudan? (part 2) by South Sudan: One Year...
[...] He goes on to say that events of the past year have been extremely disappointing to friends of South Sudan and Sudan: [...]
View ArticleComment on Celebrations for South Sudan? (part 2) by South Sudan: One Year...
[...] He goes on to say that events of the past year have been extremely disappointing to friends of South Sudan and Sudan: We had all been hoping that the creation of two new states would enable their...
View ArticleComment on Post-2015 UN Task Team report: Pretty good, all in all by IB...
[...] The Future We Want und die Perspektiven für den post-2015 Prozess nimmt Amy Pollard für das Serpents and Doves Blog vor. Hier sei noch auf den Artikel Conflicting Views about Poverty im Economist...
View ArticleComment on Post-2015 UN Task Team report: Pretty good, all in all by Mwangi...
Indeed this report will be a very useful document in the coming days and It will inform my thinking and working going forward. None-the-less, there are quite a number of expectations I had on the task...
View ArticleComment on Bellagio dreaming: Elite visions for a post-2015 framework by...
[...] attended, ironically, one of the least legitimate and most elite meetings ever). I wrote a rather breathless blog about it at the time. The realization was that instead of simply doing advocacy...
View ArticleComment on Are policy wonks in NGOs a good thing? by Martin Williams
Although I understand where you are coming from, the danger of leaving wonks (or wonkish tendancies) out of NGOs is that the organisations then lose some of the rigour that should underpin both the...
View ArticleComment on Are policy wonks in NGOs a good thing? by Joanne Green
Hi, thanks for your thoughts Martin. I am not arguing against NGOs doing their evidence and policy analysis well – far from it – but I think there is a danger of becoming too technocratic and...
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