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  • Promoting accountability through information: how open school data can help

    News

    Six case studies from Asia and the Pacific look at how open school data can create a more transparent and accountable education system.

  • Local researcher Egidius Kamanyi conducting Focus Group Discussions in Dar-Es Salaam, Tanzania (own source)

    The analysis of corruption in the education sector through a behavioural lens

    Cosimo Stahl

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    Developing countries showing way to fight fraud

    Nigeria

    Press

    Brendan O’Malley - University World News

    While the West likes to highlight examples of corruption or malpractice in Africa, in fact they can be found in every country, including the US and the UK. Nigeria as one of a number of countries developing quality assurance capacity that is instituting explicit laws against certain types of corruption, monitoring institutions and shutting them down if there is evidence of corruption. Across Africa, GUNi-Africa is building capacity, talking to officials, pressing for public awareness and ensuring that people who are caught are sanctioned and that the sanctions are publicised.

  • The Corruption cure: how citizens and leaders can combat graft

    Corruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure provides many of the required solutions and ranges widely across continents and...

    Rotberg, Robert I.

    Princeton University Press, 2017

  • Newspaper

    Student protests after flawed university entrance exams

    Nigeria

    Press

    Tunde Fatunde - University World News

    Protests in cities across Nigeria and widespread condemnation followed this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the national university entrance test sat by 1.5 million would-be students. Computers froze, multiple results were issued and tens of thousands of candidates were relocated to different exam centres without being told. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board or JAMB has been accused of being incapable of handling the electronic entrance exam. Parliament and civil society groups have called on the government to initiate reforms to rescue the board from alleged lethargy and inefficiency.

  • Publishing government contracts: addressing concerns and easing implementation

    Government contracts regarding the use of public property and finances should be published by default. Many jurisdictions already require that contracts be made public in response to requests for the information; some now publish contracts...

    Center for Global Development (USA)

    Washington, D.C., Center for Global Development (USA), 2014

  • Civil society advocacy in Uganda: lessons learned

    Over several decades - and with increasing intensity in recent years - the non-governmental organization (NGO) sector in Uganda has participated in vigorous efforts to shape public policy. The emergence of such civil society advocacy in Uganda, as...

    Devlin-Foltz, David

    Washington, D.C., Aspen Institute, 2012

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