UNDP’s Oslo Governance Centre and Civil Society Division are producing a comparative experience publication tentatively titled ‘Social Accountability for Improved Governance and Achievement of the MDGs’. This publication will explore emerging social, political, environment and ICT trends and illustrate how different actors, including CSOs, are responding to these trends and promoting engagement in development processes through social accountability initiatives, including in efforts to achieve the MDGs. The publication will present and analyse strategies and approaches that have been successful in bringing about responsive governance and policy change, including innovative approaches of civil society actors, UNDP and other development partners.

Specifically, the publication will contain individual chapters on the relevance of social accountability mechanisms in the context of urbanization, access to information and ICT advancements, environmental challenges and climate change, and conflict and fragile situations.

Terms of Reference for consultants are posted on the UNDP jobs site. We are also looking for an overall editor/coordinator for the publication. Please disseminate the ToRs widely and encourage qualified authors, who could bring together the different elements laid out in the ToRs, to apply.

Chapter on Social Accountability, Social Inclusion and Achievement of the MDGs (deadline 24 June)
http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=23964

Chapter on the importance of social accountability mechanisms for promoting democratic governance and achieving the MDGs in post-conflict and fragile situations (deadline 24 June)
http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=23988

Chapter on environmental challenges, social accountability and achieving the MDGs (deadline 24 June) http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=23990

Chapter on urbanization and social accountability and achieving the MDGs (deadline 30 June)
http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=24007

Chapter on the relevance of access to information for social accountability and achieving the MDGs (deadline 30 June) http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=24010

Overall coordinator and editor of the publication, ‘Social Accountability for Improved Governance and Achievement of the MDGs’ (deadline 5 July)
http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=24065