PTF to Host Asia Regional Workshop on Engaging Citizens to Fight Corruption

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PTF is pleased to announce the

2011 Asia Regional Peer Learning and Knowledge Sharing Workshop

Engaging Citizens against Corruption in Asia: Approaches, Results and Lessons

The three-day workshop will bring together Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from 8 countries in Asia and anti-corruption experts from all over the world. The workshop will feature results from over 30 case studies and four country programs. International experts from PTF and other organizations will present global good practices in helping citizens fight corruption. The participants will have opportunities for peer-to-peer and peer-to-expert discussion on a variety of Demand for Good Governance related topics, including funding strategies and sharing of best practice and innovative forms of engaging media and new technologies for anti-corruption programs.

The event is sponsored by PTF in collaboration with its partners in India – the Public Affairs Center (www.pacindia.org), CUTS (www.cuts-international.org), and Transparency International India (www.transparencyindia.org). It is scheduled to take place during 29^th November and 2^nd December 2011 in city of Jaipur.

The workshop will mainly bring together organizations that receive grants from PTF (in Nepal, Mongolia, the Philippines, India and Sri Lanka). A limited number of seats are available for CSOs  from outside PTF’s grantee community to promote peer learning and knowledge sharing on the theme of Engaging Citizens Against Corruption. A Cost Recovery Fee will be payable by non-PTF participants. Enquiries may be addressed to jtonn@ptfund.org.

Objectives:

Specifically, the 2011 Asia Regional Peer Learning and Knowledge Sharing Workshop will focus on:

• Fostering peer learning and networking among PTF grantees and other CSOs outside the current PTF grantee community on the theme of engaging citizens against corruption projects;

• Enhancing the capacity of participants through interactive expert presentations and break-out sessions on topics prioritized with participant’s inputs and based on participants’ case studies collected prior to the workshop;

• Promoting and stimulating participant’s awareness on global good practices in citizen engagement;

• Documenting workshop proceedings and sharing them with all PTF grantees as well as the broader community of social accountability practitioners in Asia and around the world;

Learning Approach and workshop themes

The learning approach is highly interactive and participatory as the knowledge content of the workshop is generated on the basis of participants’ own anti-corruption project experiences. In order to provide this input, participants have prepared project reports that serve as (additional) data points and resources for expert papers that have been especially commissioned for this workshop.

In order to select the most relevant session themes, participants’ preferences were sought offering an extensive list of 14 relevant anti-corruption topics relating to theme of the workshop. Based on the feedback received, PTF has identified the following five topics to be covered at the workshop:

1. Strategies for empowering communities to demand good governance in public service delivery and increase responsiveness of service delivery providers.
2. Analyzing and exposing corrupt practices in government and public sector programs and developing results driven anti-corruption programs.
3. Advocating anti-corruption policy and legislative reforms
4. Creative and innovative engagement of media in anti-corruption projects
5. Increasing capacity of CSOs for helping citizens in a sustainable manner, raising funds and measuring and communicating results.

Tags: Asia Workshop, Citizen Engagement, India, Jaipur, Peer Learning

By Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) on October 31, 2011