[Okfn-ca] [open-government] Open Society Foundations Launch New Initiative to Step Up Fight for Transparency

Sun Jun 16 21:35:25 UTC 2013

Le 2013-06-16 13:24, Julia Keserű a écrit :
> http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/press-releases/open-society-foundations-launch-new-initiative-step-fight-transparency
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> Open Society Foundations Launch New Initiative to Step Up Fight for 
> Transparency
> June 15, 2013
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>   Open Society Foundations Launch New Initiative to Step Up Fight for
>   Transparency
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> LONDON—The Open Society Foundations on Friday launched a $10 million 
> Transparency Champions Challenge to empower reformers around the world 
> to improve government responsiveness and accountability.
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> The Open Society pledge of new resources to support the efforts of 
> civil society and government transparency champions hinges on other 
> governments, companies, and/or private foundations coming forward with 
> similar commitments, with the goal of raising $50 million by 2014.
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> Through international efforts such as the Open Government Partnership, 
> the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and recent 
> legislation in the U.S. and EU that forces oil, gas, and mining 
> companies to disclose payments to producing countries, there is an 
> unprecedented amount of new information about government revenues and 
> expenditures being placed in the public domain.
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> Under UK leadership, this year’s G8 Summit may further increase global 
> disclosure around land transactions, foreign aid, government budgets, 
> taxation, anonymous shell companies, and public contracting.
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> Making more information available about the money that governments 
> receive and spend is an essential first step in helping improve 
> development results and democratic governance. The Transparency 
> Champions Challenge will help translate this increased transparency 
> into real accountability, by supporting a wide range of citizen and 
> government efforts to ensure that people actually use this new 
> information to promote more responsive and effective governance.
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> “Governments and corporations around the world are beginning to 
> release unprecedented amounts of information about their revenues and 
> expenses, but most citizens will never benefit from this new 
> transparency unless someone interprets and publicizes the information 
> disclosed,” Chris Stone 
> <http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/people/chris-stone>, president 
> of the Open Society Foundations, said. “It is critical that civil 
> society is able to build the tools and capacity to effectively engage 
> citizens on budgetary matters, and citizens are able to monitor and 
> influence how decisions about public resources are made.”
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> In recent years, many innovative citizen- and government-led efforts 
> have taken advantage of increased transparency to help improve 
> government effectiveness and accountability:
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>   * Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan /(/MKSS), an Indian NGO, has used
>     paint on hundreds of mud walls across India to track rural
>     peasants’ annual entitlements to wage labor employment in the
>     absence of access to the government’s online tracking mechanism.
>   * In Mexico, activists at the NGO Fundar use budget research and
>     advocacy to increase allocations for maternal mortality and
>     improve the quality of maternal health services.
>   * In the Philippines, the government is using participatory social
>     audits to directly involve citizens in monitoring local public
>     infrastructure projects.
>   * In Tanzania, the government is preparing its first citizens'
>     budget document to explain in plain language how public resources
>     are spent.
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> By supporting these types of efforts, the Open Society Foundations and 
> other potential partners to the Transparency Champions Challenge can 
> help build and sustain a powerful global constituency for government 
> and corporate transparency.
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> “Around the world, anticorruption activists and government reformers 
> are standing up to those few bad actors in the public and private 
> sector who collude to rob the poorest people of the funds they need to 
> fight poverty and hunger,” Jamie Drummond, co-founder of the ONE 
> campaign, said. “This Transparency Champions Challenge will give 
> financial and political support to these courageous campaigners and 
> transform our talk of a transparency revolution into a reality.”
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> /The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant 
> democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. 
> Working with local communities in more than 100 countries, the Open 
> Society Foundations support justice and human rights, freedom of 
> expression, and access to public health and education./
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