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Article: Practitioners and Advocates Promote the Power of Information in Global Development.
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- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Public disclosure and public engagement can transform development strategy into social change, a group of international communications and governance experts told leaders gathered today at the annual European Development Days conference.
The panel of transparency activists, policy analysts and members of parliament explained to the international audience how effective communications can strengthen transparency and accountability in donor-financed programs, as well as in the management of revenues from the extractive industries.
"The goal of the Development Days conference is to make aid more effective, which means more than dispensing money," said panel ...