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Right to Information in South Asia: challenging the bureaucratic process

The Right to Information (RTI) movement in South Asia has seen a wide variance of results. India has witnessed huge interest and use of the legislation, whilst Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh have had more critical obstacles to face. This briefing details the challenges and offers recommendations for those countries who have adopted RTI in the region.

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Economics and governance of nongovernmental organizations in Bangladesh: 2006; Bangladesh has made striking progress on a range of social indicators over the last 15 years, an achievement widely credited to the country's pluralist service provision regime. Nongovernmental organi...
Participatory Budgeting: Citizen Participation for Better Public Policies: J. Oropeza / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011; In the last two decades, Latin American countries have implemented participatory budgeting (PB) as a way to incorporate citizen perspective into budget designation, in order to increase public policie...
Strategies for Policy Reform, Volume 2: Engaging Entrepreneurs in Democratic Governance: K. E. Bettcher / Center for International Private Enterprise , 2010; Strategies for Policy Reform, Volume 2 reveals how local reformers in partnership with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) have transformed policy dialogue in their countries to cre...
Making E-Government Projects in Developing Countries More Successful and Sustainable: Some Case Studies from India: R. Kumar / 2007; This paper examines the issues in the context of lessons drawn from four ICT based government to citizen (G2C) and citizen to government (C2G) projects in India. The projects examined are Bhoomi, a G2...
E-Governance as an Anti Corruption Tool: Korean Cases: M. S. Iqbal / 2008; This paper aims to see e-governance as an anti corruption tool. Cases from the Republic of Korea - the OPEN system and the GePS - will be analyzed. The article aims to dentify the successful act...
The Global Information Society: a Statistical View: United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development , 2008; The aim of this publication is twofold. The first is to present a coherent picture of the state of the information society in the world. To achieve this, the publication presents available statistical...
Understanding of the interplay between ICT and governance processes at the city level: M. Gasco / 2011; This paper aims at deepening the understanding of the interplay between ICT and governance processes at the city level by providing evidence of the changes that ICT are producing on city governan...
Lessons on accountability in forest governance: The Mama Misitu Campaign against illegal logging in Tanzania: P. Domingo / Overseas Development Institute, 2011; This Project Briefing examines the experience and lessons of Tanzania's Mama Misitu Campaign for the promotion of better forest governance. Key messages: Social accountability can improve forest gover...
Kenya's new constitution and conflict transformation: B Mkangi / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2012; The 2007/8 post-election conflict that engulfed Kenya was not unprecedented. A failure to address the root causes of these violent conflicts has occasioned their re-occurrence and further entrenched t...
Right to Information in South Asia: challenging the bureaucratic process: Institute of Informatics and Development, 2012; The Right to Information (RTI) Act in South Asia has seen mixed results. The sub-continent’s largest country, India, has largely proved to be an exemplar of RTI with a lot of publicity and us...