KATHMANDU POST 3-day regional training starts Kathmandu: September 19, 2012
A three-day regional training on social accountability tools started here on Tuesday to contribute to development and inclusiveness by ensuring accountability and transparency in South Asia. Participants from South Asia will review the effectiveness of accountability tools like Citizens Report card, Participatory Expenditure Tracking Survey and Public hearing and will also identify other innovative tools. CUTS International convened the training in partnership with Affiliated Network on Social Accountability –South Asia Region.
Do you feel stringent laws to prevent corruption and rights (such as access to information) given to common people can lead towards policy paralyses?
Do you feel most of the people in India have no taste of good governance and hence it remains a marginal issue for elections in India?
Governments in South Asian countries are gradually becoming more afraid of the activities of Civil Society Organizations and thus taking steps to restrain CSOs. Do you feel there would be serious impact on the role played by CSOs in the overall governance and development?
Companies in India are evidently absent from a four-year-old United Nations-led global initiative against corruption. Do you agree that private companies are in tune with corruption?
In the current scenario, where information is attached with lot of strings, do you feel dissemination of information is crucial for enhancing accountability ?
Social networking sites are effective tool for lobbying and bringing pro-poor changes ?
Do you feel social accountability tools are cost effective way of enhancing effectivness of development efforts ?
Even though the common man suffers corruption at the very low levels of bureaucracy, it is the big players who indulge in high level corruption ?