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Richard Stern Becomes President and Chief Executive Officer of the Partnership for Transparency Fund

Richard Stern has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of The Partnership for Transparency Fund, effective January 1, 2014. Stern, a former World Bank Vice President, takes over PTF’s leadership from Daniel Ritchie, who has held the position for the last three years and who will remain in the…...

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Anti-Corruption Is Marching Ahead

The events right now in Ukraine, Turkey, India and China, where each is very different in detail, yet where public anti-corruption pressures are central, underscores how increasingly powerful and how global is the march for justice. Above all, people want to see everyone, irrespective of their lofty governmental position, or…...

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PTF Launches Citizen Action Platform in Uganda

Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) recently launched the pilot phase of a flagship program – Citizen Action Platform (CAP) – in the Apac region of Uganda. CAP is pioneering a new approach to enable civil society organizations (CSOs) to more efficiently and ......

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Fake Money and Ballot Box Raise Hopes in the Fight on Corruption this International Anti-Corruption Day

PTF joins all citizens of the world in celebrating International Anti-Corruption Day, today 9th December 2013, by endorsing the call of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make fighting corruption a central part in "defining and implementing a robust post-2015 development agenda ......

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PTF Expands Anti-Corruption Ventures with New Affiliate in Munich

Washington-based Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) is pleased to announce that an affiliate not-for-profit organization, the Partnerschaft Fonds für Transparenz Eingetragener Verein (PTF e.V.) has been established in Munich/Germany, expanding ......

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How Desperate Housewives of Khariar Successfully Fought Corruption

Poor women in thousands of towns and villages of developing countries are routinely cheated out of basic benefits to which they are entitled under government programs - not because of too few resources, too little motivation, or too much pride – but because of corruption. Keshari Paharia, Haramani Majhi, Sapura…...

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Good Practices for Engaging with Citizens for Greater Development Impact

Is it realistic to expect citizens to hold service providers accountable given the huge asymmetry of power between the two, or are we setting unrealistic expectations that citizen engagement interventions can improve development outcomes? Click here to read the article featured on the World Bank's Voices Blog to ......

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Independent Evaluations of PTF Projects

John Clark, an international development consultant, former civil society activist and adviser to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, was commissioned by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and by the World Bank to evaluate scores of PTF supported projects. The evaluations completed by ......

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Independent Evaluations of 116 Projects Stress the Value of Partnership for Transparency Fund’s Pioneering Approaches

John Clark, an international development consultant, former civil society activist and adviser to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, was commissioned by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and by the World Bank to evaluate scores of PTF supported projects. UK Aid and the Bank were the ......

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Steve Ettinger – December 3, 1942-July 31, 2013.

Steve Ettinger, PTF Advisor and team leader on PTF’s projects in Latin America, including the FONTRA program, died on July 31 after a four year valiant and determined battle against pancreatic cancer. Steve, 70, traveled the globe, ever promoting development projects in his 23 year World Bank career ......

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