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GOVERNANCE UNIT SUPPORT
CARE'S INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY
GUIDANCE NOTES
PROGRAMMING & TOOLS
WAYS OF WORKING
CARE LEARNING & PUBLICATIONS
CARE LINKS
EXTERNAL LINKS
Research Institutes
Development Agencies
Individuals
CARE’s 2016 Inclusive Governance workshop was organised by CIUK’s Inclusive Governance Team and CSC Consulting, and hosted by CARE Tanzania. The event was attended by thirty-nine governance champions across Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe from CARE, peer organisations and partner organisations (World Vision, Kwantu, Hivos, Rupantar andWomen’s Fund Tanzania). The workshop objectives were to: take stock and plan the way forward for mainstreaming Inclusive Governance into CARE’s programming; get inspiration from external organizations doing Inclusive Governance work; provide a forum for Inclusive Governance champions to network and share innovation and learning; and identify concrete thematic areas for programmatic collaboration to deliver CARE’s 2020 Strategy.
Key takeaways:
· Approaches to integrate IG are highly relevant for the new Impact Growth Strategies
· Need to build off existing women's empowerment work to promote women's political empowerment
· Potential power of digitalisation to amplify common findings across social accountability processes, serving as citizen-generated data.
· Governance tools cannot be ends in themselves, but part of broad strategies to engage with citizens and power-holders.
· Our work to integrate IG needs to go beyond the local level - the proposed framework for integrating governance from the community to international levels was strongly welcomed by participants.
This report outlines the main discussions and conclusions as follows:
· The main trends that are affecting CARE’s work on Inclusive Governance;
· Innovation and adaptation in our Inclusive Governance work:
o Working beyond the local, integrating Inclusive Governance activities from grassroots to international;
o Innovating, through the next generation of Community Score Card and other tools;
o Digitalization of social accountability processes;
o Women’s political empowerment;
o Building institutional capacity and responsiveness amongst power-holders;
o Adapting to fragile and conflict-affected environments;
o Promoting CARE’s own accountability through beneficiary feedback mechanisms.
· How we will we know if and how our Inclusive Governance work is having an impact;
· Areas of collaboration over the next year to take forward key priorities.
Workshop Report