Sign the contract supporting enhanced disclosure and monitoring of public contracts

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Within the context of improved governance and service delivery, Open Contracting refers to norms, practices and methodologies for increased transparency and monitoring in public contracting, including contracts implemented by multilateral donors. Open Contracting begins with the disclosure of the relevant public procurement information from pre-award activities through contract award and implementation to allow for effective[…]

Measurement presentation and tool for Open Contracting available here

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These materials were presented by David Bonbright at the Open Contracting First Global Meeting in Johannesburg on October 25th. The event was hosted by the World Bank Institute and GIZ. To view David’s presentation slides, please click here. To view the Theory of Change slide, please click here. To view the tool, please click here. For more information about this event,[…]

Keystone’s Open Contracting Theory of Change Survey report available here

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This report was released at the Open Contracting First Global Meeting in Johannesburg 24th-26th October. It presents the results from an online survey about a growing practice known as Open Contracting. The main purpose of the survey was to understand how familiar people are with the Open Contracting approach and how they understood its effects. The[…]

Andre Proctor argues that Keystone’s experience cultivating farmer voice in Ethiopia is relevant to improving agricultural extenstion in South Africa

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Keystone is working with Oxfam America, the Ethiopian Government, and the Gates Foundation on an ambitious program to transform the top-down Ethiopian extension system to make it more effective and more farmer-driven. Click here to read Andre’s article.

Read Keystone South Africa’s “Strategies to Overcome Poverty and Inequality – Towards Carnegie III” conference paper

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This paper offers a practitioner’s perspective on an original approach and method for generating, making sense of, and learning from performance and impact data that are grounded in empirically valid feedback from the intervention’s primary constituents – those intended to directly benefit.

2007 Impact Assessment Practices Survey

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Keystone and Alliance Magazine conducted an online survey in 2007 to get the opinions of those on both ends of evaluation, donors and grantees. The results suggest a broad acceptance of the importance of evaluation by donors and grantees alike, though neither group seems to feel it is contributing all that much to grantee effectiveness. This presents donors with a huge opportunity to fund grantees to do it better. If evaluation were properly funded, and if donors did more in terms of following up the findings, it could make all the difference.