eNews | 30 March 2012 | Visit our website at www.ansa-eap.net
ANSA-EAP Learning Briefs
ANSA-EAP learning briefs are short, easy-to-read reference materials on ANSA-EAP’s learning and capacity building initiatives for social accountability. The briefs cull emerging lessons from ANSA-EAP’s capacity building interventions towards improving the quality and delivery of these programs and/or actions.
Each brief explores specific aspects of the network’s learning-in-action strategy by presenting grounded insights from both programmatic and one-time learning engagements with partners and good governance stakeholders.
Three Learning Briefs have been produced so far, A Better Way of looking at Governance (the story of how social accountability is being mainstreamed in non-governmental organizations); The Social Accountability Learning in Action Cycle; Learning is Just a Click Away (online learning).
ANSA-EAP Updates
ANSA-EAP held its Network Assessment last January 12-14, 2012 in Manila, Philippines. Some salient points discussed in the three-day activity include the importance of resource availability and sufficiency in accomplishing the goals of the network members; continuous sharing of documented best practices and work areas that can be improved; and the role of networking and partnership-building within the network and with other good governance actors.
A draft network model, drawn from the experiences of both the Conveners Groups and of the regional operations team in the past four years, was presented for validation and consultation with participants. The model provides insights on both hindering and facilitating factors that affect network performance and harmony among network members.
Promoting Social Accountability in Extractive Industry
The Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia and the Pacific (ANSA-EAP) in partnership with Luta Hamutuk Institute for Social Justice of Timor Leste and Revenue Watch International (RWI) conducted the “Promoting Social Accountability in Extractive Industry” training with participants from local local government and CSOs. The workshop was held last 27-28 February 2012 at S. Paolo II, Dili, Timor Leste.
Overall, the workshop stirred in the participants heightened interest to understand governance issues in the Extractive Industries (Oil), and in participating in its assessment.
Announcements
ANSA-Arab World (ANSA-AW) launched
The Affiliated Network for Social Accountability – Arab World (ANSA-AW) was launched last Thursday in Rabat , with the presence of seven Arab countries’.
Share your Procurement Innovation
The World Bank Institute (WBI) in partnership with UN Procurement Capacity Development Centre (UNPCDC), Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with the financial support of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Public Procurement Research Group of the University of Nottingham, and Making Integrity Work (Tiri) are pleased to announce the opening of the Procurement Innovation Challenge and invites you to share your experience on innovative approaches, processes, initiatives, policies or tools that have led to effective procurement reforms and/or better performing systems..
Procurement Innovation Webinar
Last March 21, 2012 at 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. EDT / 13:30 – 14:30 GMT, the World Bank Institute held a Procurement Innovation Challenge Webinar that featured procurement innovations presented by the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia and the Pacific (ANSA-EAP), the World Bank Institute (WBI) and the Procurement Innovation Challenge Early Entry Award Winner, Dr. Paul Davis.
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