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Assessing the Evidence: The Effectiveness and Impact of Public Governance-Oriented Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives
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In this paper, the authors identify and consolidate the current state of the evidence for public governance-oriented multi-stakeholder initiatives effectiveness and impact and highlight the ongoing process of defining MSI success and impact, and how these initiatives intersect with other accountability actors and processes.Abstract:
Transnational multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) – voluntary partnerships between governments, civil society, and the private sector – are an increasingly prevalent strategy for promoting government responsiveness and accountability to citizens. While most transnational MSIs involve using voluntary standards to encourage socially and environmentally responsible private sector behavior, a handful of these initiatives – the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST), the Open Government Partnership (OGP), the Global Initiative on Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) and the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) – focus on information disclosure and participation in the public sector. Unlike private sector MSIs, which attempt to supplement weak government capacity to enforce basic social and environmental standards through partnerships between businesses and civil society, public sector MSIs ultimately seek to bolster public governance. But how exactly are these MSIs supposed to work? And how much has actually been achieved?The purpose of this study is to identify and consolidate the current state of the evidence for public governance-oriented MSI effectiveness and impact. Researchers collected over 300 documents and interviewed more than two-dozen MSI stakeholders about their experiences with five public governance oriented multi-stakeholder initiatives.This report provides a ‘snapshot’ of the evidence related to these five MSIs, and suggests that the process of leveraging transparency and participation through these initiatives for broader accountability gains remains uncertain. The report highlights the ongoing process of defining MSI success and impact, and how these initiatives intersect with other accountability actors and processes in complex ways. The study closes with key recommendations for MSI stakeholders.read more
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Global Standards in National Contexts: The Role of Transnational Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in Public Sector Governance Reform
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the transnational evidence base for three global public sector governance MSIs (the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the Construction Sector Transparency Initiative and the Open Government Partnership) and investigated their implementation within and across three shared national contexts (Guatemala, the Philippines, and Tanzania) to determine whether and how these initiatives lead to improvements in proactive transparency (i.e., discretionary release of government data), demand-driven transparency, and accountability).
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Ownership dynamics in local multi-stakeholder initiatives
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TL;DR: In this paper, the nature and dynamics of ownership are often neglected features of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs), and the authors discuss ways in which stakeholder groups can create a more enabling environment for their collaboration.
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Transparency and accountability in the extractives sector: a synthesis of what works and what does not
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize key lessons from seven impact evaluations of transparency and accountability initiatives in the extractives sector and show that information combined with deliberations positively affect knowledge, trust and demand for accountability.
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