Katrina Kosec, "POLICY SEMINAR Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)"
Katrina Kosec
POLICY SEMINAR
Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery
Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
This document discusses stakeholder analysis for territorial intelligence in digital governance. It defines stakeholders as key individuals and entities that influence or are influenced by territorial development processes. E-governance uses information and communication technologies to improve government services and interactions between various territorial actors, including residents, businesses, organizations and different levels of government. Analyzing stakeholder relationships is important for developing frameworks to guide stakeholder cooperation and partnerships for effective territorial development in the digital age. Dimensions for analyzing relationships include cooperation, partnerships, conflicts and power dynamics.
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This document summarizes research on social protection programs in 5 African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. It finds that strong political will and a perception of crisis helped drive expansion of programs in Ethiopia and Rwanda. Donors supported social protection ideas, but domestic politics was key. Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia faced more resistance from groups worried about costs. Health insurance faced more barriers than social assistance. Overall, the political context and "ideational fit" determined whether countries adopted social protection policies.
Accountability, Citizen Voice and Public Service DeliveryRidho Fitrah Hyzkia
1. After a decade of decentralization in Indonesia, sub-national service quality remains low and community needs have failed to shape government priorities, despite higher funding levels not improving local outcomes.
2. Poor service delivery is not due to a lack of capacity, authority or resources at the local level, but because local government staff and frontline workers lack incentives and accountability for their performance.
3. Reforms are needed to improve local government efficiency and responsiveness to local needs through stronger community engagement and social accountability, as well as incentives for good performance by frontline public servants.
Accountability and transparency in public administration can lead to good governance. They are prerequisites for public trust. When governments are transparent, with open budgets and financial statements, and officials are accountable for their actions and use of resources, it reduces corruption and maladministration. This builds integrity and legitimacy in government. However, corruption in the public sector, like in public works projects, can have large economic and human costs if transparency and accountability measures are not implemented properly.
This document discusses the concept of good governance. It defines governance as the exercise of authority through economic, political, and administrative mechanisms. Good governance has several key characteristics including participation, rule of law, transparency, responsiveness, consensus building, equity, effectiveness, and accountability. It also examines frameworks for good governance from the UN, World Bank, and other organizations. Several components are identified, including pillars, actors, and indicators of good governance. Overall, the document provides an overview of the concept of good governance and its various dimensions.
This document summarizes Pakistan's efforts to build an integrated social protection system to reach the poorest citizens. It discusses how Pakistan developed a national social protection strategy in 2007 and launched the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) in 2008 to provide a more coordinated approach. Key elements of the system include effective targeting through a national poverty registry using a poverty scorecard; efficient administration through digital payments to over 4.5 million families; and outreach expansion to additional programs for health insurance, education, and skills development. The system aims to facilitate program integration and coordination across different social protection initiatives at both federal and provincial levels. Challenges remain around long-term financing, federal-provincial partnerships, and explaining social protection
The document discusses the advocacy achievements of the Bridging the Gaps global partners from 2011-2014. It describes the program's establishment in 2011 with funding from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs to achieve universal access to HIV services for key populations. Through the efforts of global and local partner organizations, nearly 700,000 people received HIV services, over 200 organizations engaged in human rights advocacy, and key population services were integrated into nearly 100 health facilities. The document provides details on the program's approach and a theory of change to guide advocacy work.
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The World Bank was requested by PNG's Prime Minister to analyze the costs of crime and violence in PNG. The Bank found that crime levels are high compared to international levels and concentrated in urban areas. Violence is increasing, especially against women. While crime rates have stabilized since 2000, arrest and prosecution rates remain low. The drivers of crime include economic stresses from poverty and inequality, as well as stresses on social relationships from rapid cultural and social changes. The implications for policy include strengthening justice sector data collection, addressing the root causes of economic and social conflicts, and building public trust and capacity of formal justice institutions.
This document discusses stakeholder analysis for territorial intelligence in digital governance. It defines stakeholders as key individuals and entities that influence or are influenced by territorial development processes. E-governance uses information and communication technologies to improve government services and interactions between various territorial actors, including residents, businesses, organizations and different levels of government. Analyzing stakeholder relationships is important for developing frameworks to guide stakeholder cooperation and partnerships for effective territorial development in the digital age. Dimensions for analyzing relationships include cooperation, partnerships, conflicts and power dynamics.
Social Protection: At the Intersection of Transnational Ideas and Domestic Po...EffectiveStates
This document summarizes research on social protection programs in 5 African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. It finds that strong political will and a perception of crisis helped drive expansion of programs in Ethiopia and Rwanda. Donors supported social protection ideas, but domestic politics was key. Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia faced more resistance from groups worried about costs. Health insurance faced more barriers than social assistance. Overall, the political context and "ideational fit" determined whether countries adopted social protection policies.
Accountability, Citizen Voice and Public Service DeliveryRidho Fitrah Hyzkia
1. After a decade of decentralization in Indonesia, sub-national service quality remains low and community needs have failed to shape government priorities, despite higher funding levels not improving local outcomes.
2. Poor service delivery is not due to a lack of capacity, authority or resources at the local level, but because local government staff and frontline workers lack incentives and accountability for their performance.
3. Reforms are needed to improve local government efficiency and responsiveness to local needs through stronger community engagement and social accountability, as well as incentives for good performance by frontline public servants.
Accountability and transparency in public administration can lead to good governance. They are prerequisites for public trust. When governments are transparent, with open budgets and financial statements, and officials are accountable for their actions and use of resources, it reduces corruption and maladministration. This builds integrity and legitimacy in government. However, corruption in the public sector, like in public works projects, can have large economic and human costs if transparency and accountability measures are not implemented properly.
This document discusses the concept of good governance. It defines governance as the exercise of authority through economic, political, and administrative mechanisms. Good governance has several key characteristics including participation, rule of law, transparency, responsiveness, consensus building, equity, effectiveness, and accountability. It also examines frameworks for good governance from the UN, World Bank, and other organizations. Several components are identified, including pillars, actors, and indicators of good governance. Overall, the document provides an overview of the concept of good governance and its various dimensions.
This document summarizes Pakistan's efforts to build an integrated social protection system to reach the poorest citizens. It discusses how Pakistan developed a national social protection strategy in 2007 and launched the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) in 2008 to provide a more coordinated approach. Key elements of the system include effective targeting through a national poverty registry using a poverty scorecard; efficient administration through digital payments to over 4.5 million families; and outreach expansion to additional programs for health insurance, education, and skills development. The system aims to facilitate program integration and coordination across different social protection initiatives at both federal and provincial levels. Challenges remain around long-term financing, federal-provincial partnerships, and explaining social protection
The document discusses the advocacy achievements of the Bridging the Gaps global partners from 2011-2014. It describes the program's establishment in 2011 with funding from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs to achieve universal access to HIV services for key populations. Through the efforts of global and local partner organizations, nearly 700,000 people received HIV services, over 200 organizations engaged in human rights advocacy, and key population services were integrated into nearly 100 health facilities. The document provides details on the program's approach and a theory of change to guide advocacy work.
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The World Bank was requested by PNG's Prime Minister to analyze the costs of crime and violence in PNG. The Bank found that crime levels are high compared to international levels and concentrated in urban areas. Violence is increasing, especially against women. While crime rates have stabilized since 2000, arrest and prosecution rates remain low. The drivers of crime include economic stresses from poverty and inequality, as well as stresses on social relationships from rapid cultural and social changes. The implications for policy include strengthening justice sector data collection, addressing the root causes of economic and social conflicts, and building public trust and capacity of formal justice institutions.
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This document discusses challenges to deepening democracy through increased citizen participation and proposes an initiative to address these challenges. It identifies three main challenges: 1) lack of leadership champions for participatory initiatives, 2) lack of agreement on the role of non-electoral citizen participation, and 3) initiatives that are trivial in scope. The proposed initiative aims to increase citizen engagement, government transparency and legitimacy, and policy outcomes. It will use a non-profit partner and information and communication technologies to facilitate engagement and will evaluate success using various indicators to measure inputs, outputs, processes, outcomes and impacts.
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So what difference does it make? Assessing the impact of participation, transparency and accountability
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The media are essential to democracy, and a democratic election is impossible without media. A free and fair election is not only about the freedom to vote and the knowledge of how to cast a vote, but also about a participatory process where voters engage in public debate and have adequate information about parties, policies, candidates and the election process itself in order to make informed choices. Furthermore, media acts as a crucial watchdog to democratic elections, safeguarding the transparency of the process. Indeed, a democratic election with no media freedom, or stifled media freedom, would be a contradiction. ( ★★For making this content author used various online resources, it is share here only for those who want to know something about it. This content is not the author's primary/ own creating property. )
The report discusses the need for governments to improve public communication strategies in order to enhance transparency, citizen participation, and trust. It outlines key principles for effective communication, including empowering communication functions, transitioning to more evidence-based and data-driven practices, and leveraging digital technologies responsibly. The report emphasizes establishing mandates and strategies to guide communication in support of policy objectives and open government.
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This document discusses challenges to deepening democracy through increased citizen participation and proposes an initiative to address these challenges. It identifies three main challenges: 1) lack of leadership champions for participatory initiatives, 2) lack of agreement on the role of non-electoral citizen participation, and 3) initiatives that are trivial in scope. The proposed initiative aims to increase citizen engagement, government transparency and legitimacy, and policy outcomes. It will use a non-profit partner and information and communication technologies to facilitate engagement and will evaluate success using various indicators to measure inputs, outputs, processes, outcomes and impacts.
The document analyzes the role of civil society, especially in developing countries, regarding internet governance and the World Summit on the Information Society. It discusses civil society's involvement in raising awareness, advocacy, and facilitating network building. It also examines the implications of civil society's contributions and the challenges they face, such as barriers to policy input. The researchers recommend identifying civil society's exact role and vision, focusing on underrepresented communities, establishing networks and partnerships, and providing capacity building on internet governance issues.
The document discusses establishing principles and processes for redistricting in Minnesota that promote fairness, transparency, and public input. It recommends the redistricting process be independent and nonpartisan, maps and data be made public, and multiple opportunities for public comment be provided. Key principles include fairness, transparency, and citizen input. Challenges with the current partisan process and public distrust are also noted.
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The document summarizes a research study that aimed to identify barriers to the adoption of social participation goals within the Brazilian Digital Governance Policy. The study involved analyzing policy documents and conducting interviews with 11 civil servants. Key barriers identified included a lack of citizen involvement in government policies and services, a lack of participation initiatives and interest from both government and citizens, and a government focus on itself rather than citizens. The researchers concluded that governments need to make more efforts to engage citizens in order to successfully implement digital governance.
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This article aims to identify barriers for the adoption of strategic goals related to social participation in the Brazilian Public Administration present in the recently launched Brazilian Digital Governance Policy.
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The document discusses measures Poland has taken to build trust in government and public institutions. It outlines areas of focus: democracy, legislative, judiciary, and executive. For each area, it lists specific trust-building measures implemented, such as ensuring transparency in elections; independence and transparency in the judiciary; open communication and consultation with citizens from the executive branch. It notes that building trust takes sustained efforts over time through demonstrated actions, not just declarations. Recent governments have had varying lengths of time in power, with the current government in power the longest, suggesting trust has increased. Constant vigilance is needed to maintain trust gained.
From 2008-2013, Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme worked to create more effective governance systems by ensuring that women’s voices influence decisions about
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Civil society organizations in Tanzania have implemented various social accountability monitoring initiatives to promote good governance and development. These initiatives include social accountability monitoring, public expenditure tracking surveys, community score cards, citizen juries, social auditing, budget analysis, and policy monitoring. The purpose of these initiatives is to empower local communities, provide information for advocacy, and strengthen government oversight. They focus on issues of local concern like corruption, resource allocation and use, service delivery quality, and specific project implementation. Tanzania's legal and policy framework supports the role of civil society in social accountability monitoring at the local level.
The document summarizes the key aspects of the Global Fund's New Funding Model (NFM) application process. It describes the NFM's emphasis on enhancing civil society and key population participation at all stages. It provides an overview of the application timeline and stages, including development of a National Strategic Plan, country dialogue, concept note submission and review, grant-making, approval, and implementation. It offers guidance for key populations and advocates on meaningful involvement at each stage, especially in developing robust epidemiological data and ensuring representation in country dialogue.
32nd board meeting communities delegation country dialogue position paperclac.cab
The study analyzed engagement of key populations (KPs) in country dialogue processes in 11 countries. It found that while engagement of some KPs improved due to new Global Fund requirements, meaningful involvement of communities affected by TB, malaria, prisoners, MSM, transgender people, sex workers and people who inject drugs remained problematic. Political contexts, weak community systems, lack of support and punitive laws presented barriers. The report recommends the Global Fund enforce requirements on inclusive engagement, provide clear guidelines and resources to support capacity building, and require long-term investments in human rights and community strengthening in concept notes.
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Community profiling presenting your infomationTim Curtis
This document provides guidance on analyzing and presenting community profile data. It discusses investigating a chosen community and defining its boundaries. The data analysis process involves preparing, storing, and analyzing collected information before presenting it. Key steps are bringing all data together, coding surveys, storing data for comparison, and determining what questions the data will answer. Data can be presented through tables, graphs, charts, or words. The report should introduce the community, objectives, context, findings from local and national data, resident experiences, needed services, observations, analysis, recommendations, and conclusions with references.
So what difference does it make? Assessing the impact of participation, transparency and accountability
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World Bank Institute Seminar November 22, 2010
Teagen Johnson: CHNA Dane County, WI: Creighton MPH602Teagen Johnson
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Discuss the role of media in election. What are the laws of election in Bangl...Md. Sajjat Hossain
The media are essential to democracy, and a democratic election is impossible without media. A free and fair election is not only about the freedom to vote and the knowledge of how to cast a vote, but also about a participatory process where voters engage in public debate and have adequate information about parties, policies, candidates and the election process itself in order to make informed choices. Furthermore, media acts as a crucial watchdog to democratic elections, safeguarding the transparency of the process. Indeed, a democratic election with no media freedom, or stifled media freedom, would be a contradiction. ( ★★For making this content author used various online resources, it is share here only for those who want to know something about it. This content is not the author's primary/ own creating property. )
Discuss the role of media in election. What are the laws of election in Bangl...
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Chapter 13
Politics and New Media
Objectives
To understand:
How the shift towards narrowcasting and digital media might change the nature of political participation
How online media are creating a new space and a new set of challenges for the conduct of political debate
How the shift towards a greater degree of social and political surveillance may alter the broader political landscape
How myths of the digital sublime shape our views of electronic democracy
How media and new media tools are central to advancing social and political economic change
Web 2.0 Structuration and the
End of Politics
Argument for democratic emancipatory potential of the Internet
In reality, there is a shrinking of a public sphere
Within the capitalist market economy, there is a contradiction between the formal equality of political participation and the inequalities of income and opportunity that define the relationships of the market
Web 2.0 Structuration and the
End of Politics, cont’d
Media’s relationship with political power—an unofficial watchdog role, acting as a series of checks and balances on those who exercise power
Political economy analysis suggests “democracy” is tolerated by big business as long as real control is off-limits to popular deliberation
Leaps in Logic?
An idealized view of the democratizing power of the Internet is a hopeful prediction; however, this requires leaps in logic:
Internet is no less susceptible to being manipulated by political parties and sectional interest groups than the current system
Issues under consideration in politics online are still determined by those in power positions and do not necessarily address key issues for a broader community
The control of sites by those who wish to promote their own interests will greatly diminish the credibility of the polling results within political circles
Leaps in Logic? cont’d
E-democracy
People make their own history, just not within conditions of their choosing
Structuration: structures may be formal (laws, policies, regulations), formalized (in institutions or organizations), or relatively informal (class, gender or race)
Degree of agency that one can exercise is dependent on these structures, but the human ability to exercise this agency means that they can be changed
New media are contemporary tools used in this process
The Internet as an Election Campaign Tool
Beginning of twenty-first century: politicians in Canada began to embrace the significance and power of using the Internet to reach constituents
The Internet has become an increasingly necessary tool
Cost efficiency
Relative lack of regulation control
Production simplicity
Swift narrowcasting via active interaction with the individual
New technologies in election campaigns are not always used to expand the voter base; sometimes they are used to suppress it
Online Politics and the
Reportorial Community
Digital media convergence is shifting the borders of the reportorial community
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Katrina Kosec, "POLICY SEMINAR Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)"
1.
2. Can Information Improve Rural
Governance and Service Delivery?
Evidence from a Special Issue of World Development
Katrina Kosec
Senior Research Fellow
Development Strategy and Governance Division
International Food Policy Research Institute
Washington, DC | October 21, 2019
3. Technological
Advancements are
Affecting Policies
and Citizens’
Welfare
Autocratic politics:
“'Revolution 2.0': How Social
Media Toppled A Dictator” (NPR,
2012)
“How Social Media Helps
Dictators” (Foreign Policy, 2016)
Democratic politics:
High presence of elected
policymakers on social media
Influencing foreign and domestic
policy
5. Can Information Improve Rural Service Delivery and
Governance?
Rural areas (with 68% of the poor) are unique:
o Costly to serve/ not well integrated
o Service providers lack information about demands of
service users
o Service users know little about the mandates and
capabilities of service providers
Governments usually deliver public services precisely
in sectors in which market failures prevail
Poor rural service delivery (e.g. low access, low quality,
low responsiveness) common in developing countries
Improved access to information is a possible route to
improved rural governance and service delivery
6. Research to Help Uncover the Effects of Information is Being
Increasingly Carried out via Randomized Control Trials (RCTs)
• 2019 Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economics went
to Abhijit Banerjee,
Esther Duflo, and
Michael Kremer:
Experiment-based
approach to
development economics
7. Why is Information Important for Rural Service Delivery and
Governance?
Politicians base decisions about taxes, spending, laws, and policies not
only on the set of rules and institutions in place, but also on the information
at their disposal
For electoral incentives to work, citizens must have information on what
politicians’ mandates are and how well they have performed vis-à-vis
those mandates
Even in more autocratic settings, information in the hands of citizens can
discipline policymakers to respond, such as through protests
8. Special Issue of World Development: “Information,
Governance, and Rural Service Delivery” (2019)
Includes 9 studies – authors will talk about the findings (and their
implications) from 3 of them today
Introduction (Kosec and Wantchekon, 2019) presents:
o A conceptual framework for predicting when information will bring about
positive developments
o A systematic review of the evidence (48 studies)
o Lessons for development practitioners and researchers
9. Conceptual Framework: When Does Information Work?
Information can help improve rural governance—but only if it is:
1. Perceived as relevant by recipients
o Boas and Hidalgo 2018; Grossman, Platas, and Rodden 2018; Batista, Seither, and Vicente
2018
2. Recipients needed to have the power to act on it
o Mogues and Olofinbiyi 2019; Buntaine, Daniels, and Devlin 2018
3. Recipients need to have the incentives to act on it
o Mogues and Olofinbiyi 2019; Evans, Holtemeyer, and Kosec 2019
When all three are in place, this can improve governance-related outcomes
o Kumar et al. 2018; Wantchekon and Rias 2019; Evans, Holtemeyer, and Kosec 2019
10. What Does it Mean for Information to Be Relevant?
Touches on an issue or concern that is salient to the recipient
Not already known
Individual has the education, knowledge, and/or skills to understand it
o Different individuals may understand the same piece of information
differently
Perceived to be accurate, credible, meaningful, and sufficiently specific in
a world with increasingly more abundant information
o High signal-to-noise ratio
o Often occurs when the sender is perceived as credible
o Individuals must be able to discern true from ‘‘fake” news
11. What Does it Mean to Have the Power to Act on Information?
Policymakers: resources, capabilities, and mandates must permit them to
meaningfully change their behavior in response to information
Citizens: their rights as citizens and their position within the community—in
which elite control is often present, and poor and rural citizens often have
low physical mobility—must permit them to respond to the information
12. What Does it Mean to Have the Incentives to Act on
Information?
Acting on the information can be costly; costs include:
o For citizens: attend a village meeting, vote, petition government,
participate in a protest, travel to meet a policymaker, share information
with a neighbor, etc
o For government: survey service users about experiences, invest more
in service delivery, design and implement better monitoring systems for
frontline providers, hold a townhall meeting, engage citizens in
budgeting processes, etc
Acting on the information must be net beneficial, if one is to incur the costs
Political budget cycles may explain a failure to act on information
13. Reviewing the Evidence on Information’s Impacts on Rural
Governance and Service Delivery
Systematic literature review – identified 48 empirical studies of the effects
of information on rural service delivery from developing countries
58 percent positive impact, 42 percent mixed/ zero/ negative
No cases of positive impacts when any of the three conditions was missing
All mixed/ zero/ negative impacts had at least one of the three conditions
missing (average of 1.25 missing)
Supports our interpretation of the three conditions (relevance, power, and
incentives) as necessary ones
NOT sufficient conditions (e.g., even if someone acts on information,
others may block them from impacting service delivery)
14. Key Policy Take-Aways
The institutional context, type of information, and information transmission
mechanism hugely matter
May need to temper enthusiasm about the prospects for information to generate
accountability (be careful in RCTs)
More modest goals may be more appropriate (e.g., increases in knowledge
rather than immediate changes in behaviors or policies)
We need more work on how to bring about relevance, power, and incentives
Government wields tremendous power to affect the flow or relevant info:
o Supportive: Supporting free press, setting up government websites, publicly posting
information, encouraging citizen dialogue, involving citizens in decision-making
o Blocking: Crack down on free flow of information, disseminate fake news, engage in
vote-buying to ensure that voters do not use their information against the government
So do non-state actors (e.g., media/ civic orgs/ NGOs/ donors/ researchers)