What does it mean to be a global donor in Latin America tied to one of the world's wealthiest men?
Posts Tagged “transparency”
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Posted in: Education & Youth, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: donors, Hernan Bonomo, transparency, Uruguay
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Karen Gadbois started a blog to document the homes and buildings being torn down after the Katrina disaster. As she dug deeper, she uncovered corruption in a program intended to help New Orleanians renovate their damaged homes.
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Timolynn Sams, director of a network of neighborhood associations in New Orleans, shares a simple lesson: in times of crisis and rebuilding the surest investment we can make is in people.
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Posted in: Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: accountability, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, New Orleans, open governance, Susan Allen, transparency, video
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Conflict in Kyrgyzstan, oil, new jail construction, and data transparency: highlights from OSI Twitter feeds this week.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: criminal justice reform, follow friday, honduras, Kyrgyzstan, oil, transparency
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The United States closed its eyes to corruption and human rights abuses in Kyrgyzstan in order to maintain its Manas military base. Now that a popular uprising has brought down the Kyrgyz government, can the U.S. still salvage its reputation there?
Posted in: Asia, Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: Alexander Cooley, Central Asia, Jeff Goldstein, Kyrgyzstan, Manas, transparency
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In light of the enormous environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, it may be worthwhile to revisit a few our discussions with experts on how oil economies operate, the distortions of power oil wealth introduces, and the future of oil as an energy source.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: Brock Boddie, Central Asia, Ed Kashi, energy, natural resources, Niger Delta, oil, photography, transparency
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Despite laws protecting Georgia's Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park and its environs, the land's pristine beauty recently came under threat by an electricity project. It took a coordinated effort by civil society to protect the park.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability
Topics: Anuka Toklikishvili, Borjomi-Kharagauli, Caucasus, Electricity, Georgia, national parks, natural resources, transparency
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A missed deadline raises questions about the ability of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative to improve accountability in oil, gas, and mining.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: Anthony Richter, anticorruption, EITI, natural resources, transparency
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Doug Kendall of the Constitutional Accountability Center and Susan Liss of the Brennan Center for Justice discuss the implications of the Citizens United ruling.
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