Accountability Research Centre (ARC)
One of the challenges affecting sustainability of project development outcomes is lack of beneficiary participation and ownership. Through its Citizens Engage-ment Framework, the World Bank commits to en-sure citizens access to infor-mation and participation in its funded projects. In 2019, AFIC with funding from the Accountability Research Centre of the American University docu-mented a case study of its experiences with Uganda’s ministries of Education and Sports as well as that of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries. Feedback was provided to both the World Bank and Ugandan officials.
In 2020, AFIC together its members in Malawi (Centre for Human Rights rehabilitation), Ghana (Ghana Anti Corruption Coalition) and Nigeria (Public and Private Development Centre) received funding from the Accountability Research Center to monitor the extent to which respective countries were implementing World Bank’s Civic Engagement Framework in practice. In Uganda the project is focusing on application of the World Bank’s Civic Engagement Framework in the Uganda Reproductive Maternal and Child Health Services Improvement Project. Findings will be shared with the World Bank, Uganda’s Ministry of Health as well as other Government Ministries and agencies implementing World Bank funded projects with a view of bridging the implementation gap between civic engagement commitments and their implementation in practice.
