Country Anchor: Consumer Unity & Trust Socity (CUTS)
Regional Core Member (S) 1. SAMBANDH 2. Centre for Civil Society 3. Inter cooperation
Networking List Networking List - India
Country Consultation Report India country consultation under CoPSA at IIC, New Delhi Brief report of the meeting of India core group
Resources Building the Case for Social Accountability: Lessons from ANSA-South Asia Social Accountability in South Asia: Improving Development Outcomes Expanding Health Coverage for Vulnerable Groups in India eGov 0.0 (A primer on eGovernance issues) Projects in India supported by ANSA-SAR Accountability of Local and State Governments in India: an Overview of Recent Research Improving the Service Delivery by Measuring Rate of Absenteeism and Initiating Community Monitoring in 30 Health Centres in Tonk District of Rajasthan, India Analysing the Right to Information Act in India Improving public expenditure outcomes of NREGS in Rajasthan Citizen Assessment of MDMS in Rajasthan Colloquium on Citizen Voices in Environmental Governance - August 23-24, 2012, Bangalore
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 ?