–snip– In his new book, “NGO’s and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting and Learning” (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Mr. Ebrahim tells the story of the Aga Khan Rural Development Program in India, which was forced by international pressure to track 89 different statistics, like births and deaths, farm yields and school graduations, in the rural villages where it was working.
–snip– Alnoor Ebrahim, an assistant professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, has researched how NGO’s in India have responded to demands for measuring and reporting results over the last decade. He found that grass-roots organizations had been very wily in subtly resisting demands to report to donors, while also complying just enough so that the spigot of money had not been turned off.
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Filling accountability gaps through civil society engagement
November 18, 2008
At a recent seminar hosted by the IMF and the World Bank, a prominent academic and his team made a presentation on the role of civil society in furthering the accountability of international financial institutions.
In his presentation, Professor Alnoor Ebrahim from the Harvard Business School described the experiences of civil society interactions with the World Bank. He argued that CSOs have been influential in advancing Bank accountability at the project and policy levels, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards as well as complaint and response mechanisms.
http://www.amazon.com/NGOs-Organizational-Change
http://www.globalpolicy.org/
http://www.imf.org/
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