The role of civil society in monitoring IMF agreements
Governments are the sole parties that negotiate with the International Monetary Fund, which provides financial assistance to countries in or…
Theme: Transparency & Open Government
Doing debt democratically
Spiraling debt can undermine public services, marginalise the vulnerable, and compromise the future of democracy. This blog delves into the…
Boosting Kenya’s debt oversight
The Kenya Parliament put to use WFD’s Public Debt Management Assessment Toolkit (PDMAT) to enhance its oversight on public debt,…
Supporting scrutiny in wartime in Ukraine
Post-legislative scrutiny (PLS) is the practice of monitoring the implementation and evaluating the impact of laws. The aim is to…
Risk to civil liberty in Georgia from the Law on Foreign Influence
There are widespread protests in Georgia opposing the Law on Foreign Influence. WFD urges the Georgian government to heed its…
Farmer Movement Oversight of Mexican Government Agricultural Programs
In Mexico’s state of Guerrero, a broad-based, collaborative social accountability campaign led by a network of agrarian community leaders contributed…
Listening and Responding to Bangladesh’s Citizens During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This report summarizes findings from research designed to assess how and how effectively different levels of the Bangladesh government listened…
Governance Reform and Public Service Provision: Institutional Resilience and State-Society Synergy
This brief review of institutionally resilient participatory oversight reforms in four countries spotlights how hybrid, collaborative governance can work in…
Building Worker Power in Global Supply Chains: Lessons from Apparel, Cocoa, and Seafood
This working paper is about the campaigners and worker organizers in the global South and North who have challenged the…
Pathways Towards Power Shifts: State-Society Synergy
Policy reformers often make bold promises to improve government responsiveness to citizen demands. Yet such proclaimed openings from above often…