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Academics and government officials from Africa visited Buenos Aires (Argentina) between October 31st and November 7th, 2016, to discuss and interact with high level public officials in the Executive and Legislative branches and the National Audit Office as well as with academics, media and civil society organizations aimed at working on transparency and accountability.
ELLA Programme/CIPPEC/Rodrigo de la Fuente
There once lived a young boy in the depths of the jungle, surrounded by the wild and untamed beauty of nature. Every day he would watch as the plants and trees grew taller, reaching for the sky, and the animals roamed freely, each with their own unique traits and characteristics. One day, as he was observing a river stream, he noticed how each droplet of water was distinct and carried its own unique journey. It struck him that just like the water, he too was one-of-a-kind, with his own set of fingerprints and qualities that set him apart from everyone else.He realized that like the plants and animals of the jungle, he too deserved to thrive and be abundant. He saw how the jungle provided the perfect environment for everything to flourish and realized that he too could have that same level of abundance in his own life. With this newfound insight, he decided to take control of his life and tap into his full potential. He signed up for a service where he would receive daily accountability calls to keep him motivated and on track.It wasn't long before he saw a transformation in himself. He was becoming the most potent and powerful version of himself, just like the plants and animals in the jungle. He finally allowed himself to grow and prosper, and the abundance he desired started to flow into his life. Join this young boy on his journey to abundance and unlock your full potential with daily accountability calls. Allow yourself to grow and prosper, just like the plants and animals in the jungle. Get started today!
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Tards an active, enecdva, accountable I .
The defeats and victories ofthe fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom -Bertolt Brecht .
There Is no shortage ofpolitical rhetoric In JNU. It reaches a crescendo during the JNUSU elections. However, In this .
combination ofsound and fury, one simple, baste thing gets·lost-that the student's union Is a body that belongs to the .
students, and not to a handful ofoffice-bearers or their political masters. That the strength (or dignity) of the union lies in .
the oollectlve wiJI of the students, not in the political connections or clout of Its 'leaders'. Choaslna your union representative Is really a steP towarcls the kind ofcamous you want: It Is amply .
dear that In this system, the interest of the government I state I policy-makers are antithetical to that of the common .
people. This extends Into education as well. The interests of the university administration Is In pushing the pro-Imperialist, .
anti-people agenda of the state-to make the campus market-oriented, making It Inaccessible to the poor or the backward masses; to use education to reinforce the status quo, rather than question It The whole point In having a union is to .
coUectively resist the machinations of an authority that pushes an anti-student agenda. And the only way to do it is to confront the administration with the collective strength of the students, rather than keeping movements restricted to token .
demonstrations and Individual negotiations by union representatives. Sd, an effective, accountable union will not only need .
to be for tl)e students, It will need to be of and by the students as well. StQnlflcantly, the way students' politics Is practiced by the student wing of various parliamentary parties Is exactly .
the opposite of this. No matter what the rhetoric, left (rather, Official Left), right or centre-what Is played out on the .
ground Is just an extension of their status-quoist, anti-people agenda, trying to garner support for their parliamentary .
masters. No wonder that in most universities (Including states ruled by the so-called 'Left'), student union elections are .
fought with brute muscle power, the parliamentary style 'settings' along caste I communal I ethnic lines and buying and .
selling f:A votes. At times, these unions become appendages of the administration -a tool to implement the anti-student .
policy and keep the general students under control. Of course, It is not surprising that the administration and these so-called .
student organizations end up on the same side -after all, both are implementing the same policies formulated by their .
masters in the parliament. These practices by the mainstream student organizations not only hide the real potential of the .
Union as an Invaluable weapon in the student's struggle for a democratic campus and society, it also turns the general .
students away from union and activism. What's even more alarming, the ruling class parties take advantage of this mess .
which Is of their own creation and tries to push right-wing measures like the Lyngdoh recommendations, which effectively .
subverts even the possibility of any meaningful student movement by making the union more subservient to the authorities. .
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nme to take stock: At a time when even the concept of a student's union Is under attack both from outside (Lyngdoh, .
immensely significant Mere so because the democratic space in JNU is fast shrinking with the organized de-pollticization ofgovernment bans in various states) and inside (mainstream student organizations), the current JNUSU election becomes .
the student community and the administration baring Its fangs to curb student protest. Let us take a look at the JNUSU .
leadership's role on certain key issues, and see ifJNUSU had indeed been an effective, transparent and accountabl~a .
union that can resist the imperialist onslaught on education and students' rights. .
Reservation: Forced by people's movements and widespread discontent, the government has been forced to legislate on reservation. Yet, statistics show that even SC/ST reservation has never really been Implemented properly, either In jobs or in .
education. The same story is belng repeated with the OBC reservations. The Supreme Court rushed in to help the .
govemment caught in a tight spot between not being able to either withdraw or Implement the 27°/o OBC Reservation Act. That Is the magic of the semi-feudal semi-colonial system. The various organs of class/caste articulations of the Indian state, the legislature, the executive or the judiciary, will always work In tandem to legitimize and perpetuate the exploitation and the age-old domination. At the idea of compromising even an Iota of the upper caste domination of educational resources, we have witnessed the extremely reactionary backlash of the dominant castes in the form of Youth for Equality. Significantly, these champions of'equality' and 'merit' are deafeningly silent when thousands of seats are reserved for capitation fee. .
But what about the 'Left' led JNUSU? Right from the beginning the JNUSU leadership had made the demand for 27°/o OBC reservation conditional on the demand for 540/o seat increase! Which effectively mean that till the Interests of the real 'creamy layer' are safeguarded, there Is no question of allowing the backward castes through the portals of higher education. And given the state's reluctance to spend money on education, given that in the last so years seats couldn't be increased to accommodate students from educationally backward sections, such huge increase of seats at .
one go is really a remote possibility, which makes the chances of 27°/o OBC reservation rather bleak. What more the .
govemment Is even ready to start schools run by corporate sector (read SEZ) with llttJe Intervention from its side. And as . soon as the matter became sub-judice the JNUSU leadership was more than to sit silent. So much for thetr daims to be progressive! ~rhaps by their calculations, fighting for proper Implementation of reservation doesn't translate Into the logic ofelectoral anthmetlc-of making the 'winning combination'. Whatever the reason, the JNUSU leadership's action on the ground doesn't really match up to their rhetoric, and only perpetuates the benefits enjoyed by the privileged ones. This becomes even more evident when every year after the admissions the JNUSU publishes self-congratulatory notices to announce the fulfillment of quota in the overall admission procedure. What they choose to Ignore Is the non fulfillment of SC/ST quota in a number of specific schools and centers, especially In the science schools, ~nter for Law and Governance School ofArts and Aesthetics, certain centers in SIS etc. Discrimination against M. Phil candidates from oppressed sections' .
In School of Arts and Aesthetics was made public last year. The JNUSU leadership, forgetting Its pre-election promises, failed .
to ensure anymechanism to prevent that. Nor was the case further probed. .
-for Workers' rights: We have seen that the united fight put up by students-teachers-workers can be a potent .
threat to the powerful contractor-administration mafia. What ha.d been the role of the JNUSU leadership? When the struggle .
began In November, the SFI faction of JNUSU leadership was nowhere to be seen. And that Is quite understandable, giVen .
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Academics and government officials from Africa visited Buenos Aires (Argentina) between October 31st and November 7th, 2016, to discuss and interact with high level public officials in the Executive and Legislative branches and the National Audit Office as well as with academics, media and civil society organizations aimed at working on transparency and accountability.
ELLA Programme/CIPPEC/Rodrigo de la Fuente
Academics and government officials from Africa visited Buenos Aires (Argentina) between October 31st and November 7th, 2016, to discuss and interact with high level public officials in the Executive and Legislative branches and the National Audit Office as well as with academics, media and civil society organizations aimed at working on transparency and accountability.
Photo: ELLA Programme/CIPPEC/Rodrigo de la Fuente
Academics and government officials from Africa visited Buenos Aires (Argentina) between October 31st and November 7th, 2016, to discuss and interact with high level public officials in the Executive and Legislative branches and the National Audit Office as well as with academics, media and civil society organizations aimed at working on transparency and accountability.
Photo: ELLA Programme/CIPPEC/Rodrigo de la Fuente
Academics and government officials from Africa visited Buenos Aires (Argentina) between October 31st and November 7th, 2016, to discuss and interact with high level public officials in the Executive and Legislative branches and the National Audit Office as well as with academics, media and civil society organizations aimed at working on transparency and accountability.
Photo: ELLA Programme/CIPPEC/Rodrigo de la Fuente
Secondary school students perform a drama on how an ICC court would operate should Joseph Kony be captured during the celebrations in Gulu for International Criminal Justice Day (July 2011).
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2021-06-08: Abdoulaye Coulibaly, Director, Governance and Public Financial Management, AfDB virtually addressing during the Open government and Accountability Webinar.
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Academics and government officials from Africa visited Buenos Aires (Argentina) between October 31st and November 7th, 2016, to discuss and interact with high level public officials in the Executive and Legislative branches and the National Audit Office as well as with academics, media and civil society organizations aimed at working on transparency and accountability.
Photo: ELLA Programme/CIPPEC/Rodrigo de la Fuente
Academics and government officials from Africa visited Buenos Aires (Argentina) between October 31st and November 7th, 2016, to discuss and interact with high level public officials in the Executive and Legislative branches and the National Audit Office as well as with academics, media and civil society organizations aimed at working on transparency and accountability.
Photo: ELLA Programme/CIPPEC/Rodrigo de la Fuente
The mass grave for victims of the 1989 Mukura Massacre (September 2010).
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U.S. urges U.N. to hold Myanmar military accountable for 'ethnic cleansing'
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Academics and government officials from Africa visited Buenos Aires (Argentina) between October 31st and November 7th, 2016, to discuss and interact with high level public officials in the Executive and Legislative branches and the National Audit Office as well as with academics, media and civil society organizations aimed at working on transparency and accountability.
ELLA Programme/CIPPEC/Rodrigo de la Fuente
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent nonpartisan agency within the U.S. government that was created in 1921 to promote accountability and transparency. It works to investigate how the federal government spends taxpayer money and help Congress oversee federal programs and agencies. The GAO reviews and evaluates federal programs policies and spending to ensure they are efficient effective and compliant with legal and regulatory requirements. In addition they also investigate waste fraud and abuse. The GAO also tests and evaluates new technologies inspects sensitive government operations and provides advice to Congress the President and other government agencies.