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Transparency & Accountability Program

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Since its inception in 2006, the Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) has strengthened the capacity of independent monitoring organizations (IMOs) in low- and middle-income countries to better hold their governments accountable and to promote improvements in social sector public spending and service delivery. 

 

 

 

Main Contact: 
Caroline Poirrier
Website: 
http://tap.resultsfordevelopment.org
Funder: 
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Caroline Poirrier
Courtney Heck
Courtney Tolmie
Nicholas Burnett

TAP Announces 2010 Grant Round Sponsoring up to 5 Organizations in Sub-Saharan Countries

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20 November, 2010

The Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) is pleased to announce that its 2010 grant round is now open.

The Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) is pleased to announce that its 2010 grant round is now open. TAP will sponsor up to five organizations to design and implement a series of related research and advocacy projects that focus on improving how money is being spent and how services are being delivered in the health and education sectors at the national, sub-national, and/or local level in their countries.

Connected Expert(s): 
Courtney Heck
Connected Expert(s): 
Courtney Tolmie
Connected Expert(s): 
Nicholas Burnett
Funder: 
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

R4D to host special session with global leaders on AIDS costs and policy choices

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9 June, 2010

How much will the fight against AIDS cost in the coming years, who will pay for it in the midst of global economic crisis and competing spending priorities, and how can governments better use their scarce AIDS resources to have the greatest impact on the epidemic?

Connected Expert(s): 
Aarthi Rao
Connected Expert(s): 
David de Ferranti
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
Connected Project(s): 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Attached File(s): 
application/pdf iconDr. Apuuli - bio.pdf
application/pdf iconBio - DR. BENSON CHIRWA.pdf
application/pdf iconRifat Atun bio Global Fund_5Mar2010.pdf
application/pdf iconPaul D. Bouey bio.pdf

aids2031 projections featured in New York Times articles on AIDS spending

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10 May, 2010

On Monday, the New York Times featured findings from the aids2031 Costs and Financing Project, directed by R4D, in a pair of front page articles examining the global response to HIV/AIDS.

Connected Expert(s): 
Kira Thorien
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
Connected Project(s): 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Connected Publications & Resources: 
Critical Choices In Financing: The Response To The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Fiscal Space and Political Space for Financing the Global AIDS Response to 2031
The Evolution and Future of Donor Assistance for AIDS
The Future Role of the Philanthropy Sector Fighting AIDS

TAP hosts launch workshops in New Delhi and Kampala for its newest grantees

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24 August, 2009

R4D’s Transparency and Accountability Program, led by project coordinator Courtney Tolmie, visited New Delhi on July 21, 2009 and Kampala on July 29, 2009 to bring together its grantees from its latest grant round. Tolmie, assisted by program associate Courtney Heck, facilitated 3-day launch workshops in which grantees received technical training from experts on public expenditure tracking methodologies, discussed program goals, and met fellow participants.

Connected Expert(s): 
Courtney Heck
Connected Expert(s): 
Courtney Tolmie

Human Resources for Health: Costing Uganda’s Pre-Service HRH Scale-Up Plans

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This report estimates Uganda’s resource requirements for scaling up the country’s workforce plans.

This report estimates Uganda’s resource requirements for scaling up the country’s workforce plans.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2008
R4D Author(s): 
Marty Makinen
Funder(s): 
United States Agency for International Development
Connected Project: 
Global Health Workforce Alliance
Version: 
1
Link to Publication-Resource: 
Available by request

Health Sector Governance and Implications for the Private Sector

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The paper develops an analytical framework applied to India, Uganda, and Afghanistan for conceptualizing the governance/stewardship function within health systems and the role of government in the context of an expanded role for private service provision and financing.

The paper develops an analytical framework applied to India, Uganda, and Afghanistan— for conceptualizing the governance/stewardship function within health systems and the role of government in the context of an expanded role for private service provision and financing. The paper begins by reviewing the approaches to conceptualizing and operationalizing stewardship, drawing on recent literature, and then explores typologies of governance, with a focus on working models of engagement and collaboration between major public and private sector actors in achieving public health goals.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2009
Main Contact: 
Donika Dimovska
Author(s): 
Dina Balabanova, Valeria Oliveira-Cruz and Kara Hanson
Funder(s): 
The Rockefeller Foundation
Connected Project: 
The Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconHealth Sector Governance and Implications for the Private Sector.pdf

Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability

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The Strengthening Institutions Program, a joint program of the Global Development Network and R4D, aims to strengthen policy debates around public expenditure issues in developing countries by providing support to emerging think tanks to conduct analyses of spending in the health, education, and water sectors.

 

Main Contact: 
Caroline Poirrier
Website: 
http://www.gdnet.org/cms.php?id=dfid_funded_project
Funder: 
Department for International Development (UK)
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Caroline Poirrier
Courtney Heck
Courtney Tolmie
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