Policy Analysis related to The Age of Open Development
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Opening Governance to Combat Corruption and Fight Poverty
ONE’s asks of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, Mexico 2012 MORE
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Aid Transparency
High quality development assistance works. Across the globe, investments are providing lifesaving results. Transparency and accountability can help to make sure that aid is as effective as possible. Increased aid transparency and coordination would ensure that scarce aid resources are used efficiently to deliver the biggest impact possible in terms of poverty reduction. MORE
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Natural Resource Governance
Natural resources have the potential to bring wealth and stability to resource-rich developing countries. Too often, corruption and mismanagement of natural resources leads to poverty and conflict. Improving natural resource governance is a crucial first step to ensuring citizens can hold their governments accountable for the oil and mineral wealth that belongs to their country, and to allowing citizens and governments to assess if they are receiving a fair deal for their resources. MORE
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The Open Government Partnership
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a new global initiative through which countries at all points on the spectrum of economic development can share their experience about how to make governance more open, transparent and accountable. MORE
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Budget Transparency
To promote greater transparency and accountability, ONE is working on a number of fronts, pushing for improved natural resource governance, greater transparency about budgets and aid, and encouraging donors to invest more in building the capacity of civil society organizations and other oversight institutions (parliaments, for example) so that they can make use of the information that transparency will unleash, in order to hold governments to account. MORE