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Tracking textbooks for transparency: improving accountability in education in the Philippines

How can accountability deficits be addressed in innovative ways in the face of weak and ineffective formal state institutions? This paper analyses the role of civil society organizations in improving accountability by increasing transparency in...

Arugay, Aries A.

Stockholm, International IDEA, 2012
Teaching certificate sales may be rife

27.04.2011 Thailand

Press

Lamphai Intathep - Bangkok Post

Up to 80 state and private universities may be involved in selling teacher certificates or offering courses without accreditation, according to authorities. The Office of the Higher Education Commission (Ohec), which is investigating a university in Khon Kaen province found to have sold professional teacher certificates to graduates, said it would widen its probe to 77 other providers which had produced an unusually high number of teaching graduates.
Public Expenditure Tracking Survey : Afghanistan - Education sector: Synthesis Report

The Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) looked at four components essential to the strengthening and development of the education sector in Afghanistan: 1) the payment of staff salaries; 2) the availability and use of an operations and...

World Bank

Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2011
Case studies on the role of politicisation of education in conflict-affected countries

This report includes following chapters: Ghost schools in Pakistan; Textbook production in Pakistan; The civic education curriculum in Sri Lanka; School development committees and youth militia in Zimbabwe. Additional background resources are...

Save the Children (UK)

2010
G-Watch guide: your partner in monitoring government programs

This guidebook has no intention of drowning you in an ocean of pessimism. It is designed to he l l p you understand that virtually anyone can contribute in preventing corruption. It serves as an instrument that will teach you how to participate in...

Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia and the Pacific

Manila, ANSA-EAP, 2010
The Wrongs Caused by Corruption in Education

22.04.2009 Afghanistan

Press

Tao Ruogu - CCTV

Afghanistan must now confront a problem in education: the lack of text books. Millions of new books pledged and paid for by donors have not been delivered due to corruption and bureaucratic snags. According to figures that emerged from the interviews of officials from 34 Afghan provinces, about one third of the textbooks ordered last year never reached their destination. Currently, learners have no other option than to illegally copy books that are available for purchase.
Millions for textbooks bogged down in Afghanistan

21.04.2009 Afghanistan

Press

Heidi Vogt - Rawa News

As a result of corruption and bureaucracy, millions of new books promised and paid by donors in 2008 were never delivered. About a third of them are still waiting to be distributed to the provinces and lots of the textbooks ordered were so poorly made that they may not last a second year.
Teachers in Madhya Pradesh sell textbooks as scrap, suspended

19.01.2009 India

Press

- Aussie Indo Lanka

Two primary and secondary teacher have been suspended for selling textbooks that belonged to the school, the textbooks meant for free distribution by the District Institute of Educational Training (DIET), among students were seized from a scrap dealer's shop.
Our money, our responsibility: a citizens' guide to monitoring government expenditures

How can citizens monitor government expenditure? What are the best strategies for effecting budgetary change? This guide looks at the work undertaken by 17 organizations in 12 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It offers an overview of...

Ramkumar, Vivek

Washington, D.C., International Budget Project, 2008
Civic education for combating corruption: lessons from Hong Kong and the US for donor-funded programmes in poor countries

Donors are increasingly funding projects and programmes that fit under the general rubric of 'civic education'. These tend to address both targeted problems within a country and wider institutional reforms, including, for example, projects aimed at...

Marquette, Heather

2007

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