This annotated bibliography is compiled as part of the Citizens’ Forum Against Corruption (CFAC) project, part-funded by the European Delegation – Afghanistan and implemented by Afghanistan Public Policy Research Organization (APPRO).The bibliography is intended to assist multiple actors with projects or programming on anti-corruption in Afghanistan. The compilation will be updated twice per year, with the next update scheduled forJanuary 2019. The additions to this bibliography for each round of updates will be marked as “New”.
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This report assesses the evidence for the effectiveness of five global multi-stakeholder initiatives to promote governance reform, including the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Open Government Partnership, Construction Sector Transparency Initiative, Open Contracting Partnership and the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency.
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Seen from the outside, Africa is often characterised as a continent of civil conflict, of refugee and displaced populations of economic crisis. Yet amid this gruesome picture, Africa is rising as the fastest growing continent in terms of aggregate economic indicators. One of the main outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference was the agreement by member States to launch a process to de¬velop a set of SDGs, which will build upon the MDGs and con¬verge with the post 2015 agenda. It was decided establish an inclusive and transparent inter-governmental process open to all stakeholders, with a view to developing global sustainable development goals to be agreed by the General Assembly. Africa has no choice but to meet the SDGs, using this opportunity. The paper discusses Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) as an investment partnership between the state and the private sector to share the benefit and the responsibility according to the level of his or her contribution where one party of the venture lacks something, and look for another partner to fulfil what it lacks. It also dwells on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) that siphon billion out Africa annually that more the aid the continent receives. PPP is a cooperative venture between the public and private sectors built on the expertise of each partner that best meets clearly defined public needs through the appropriate allocation of resources, risk and rewards, long-term con¬tractual cooperation, defines demanded performances: where the public partner is the one that defines the PPP. PPP are not about the privatisation of public assets. Under the PPP, the public partner retains a substantial role in project or service and retains ownership of the assets. PPP has been implemented for many years, but because of the major shift of thinking in public administration predominantly a ‘paradigm shift’ from the traditional public administration to the NPM since early 1980’s, PPP become a widely accepted instrument of pub¬lic service delivery and have advantages for both the public and private sector. Four projects are reviewed here in the annex. Available data suggest that develop¬ment aid has nearly multiplied by tenfold in less than a dec¬ade from around $3 billion in 2003 to $30 billion in 2012. Ultimately, sustainable development will require investments of all kinds: public and private, domestic and interna¬tional. It requires making the best possible use of each public dollar, beginning with the $135 billion in ODA. Amalgamated Finance is the strategic use of development finance and charity funds to mobilise private capital flows to emerg¬ing and frontier markets. It enhances the impact of aid resources by using those funds to tap into private capital in global markets, offering promising a latent solution to close the SDGs funding disparity. Key words: PPP, States, Private Sector, Amalgamated Capital, IFF
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