In the governance sector IICD supports civil society organisations
and civil servants working in public institutions and local government
offices to:
Increase political efficiency
We help local governments and civil society organisations use
ICT to improve data and work flows. Enhancing information flows
between – and within – local communities and districts supports and
improves decentralisation processes.
Make processes more transparent and interactions more
effective
We help local governments apply ICT to make processes more
transparent and interactions between local and national governments
more effective.
Strengthen citizen leaders. We help grassroots organisations
use ICT to enable them to access information and raise their voice. In
doing so we ensure that the most vulnerable people in society have a
voice in decision-making processes and that the views of minorities are
taken into account.
Who did we reach in sector governance?
What did we achieve?
In 2010, IICD we:
worked in Bolivia, Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and
Uganda
supported 12 e-governance projects and 2 policy
formulation processes and leveraging programmes
reached more than 160,000 end-users and 420,000 indirect
beneficiaries.
Most of the people we reached were women as many of the
projects we supported focussed on strengthening leadership among women
in Latin America. These efforts have proven very successful in terms of
both impact and outreach. Most of the participating women have a
primary or secondary school education, live in a rural
area and have a below-average income.
For an overview of our projects in sector governance, please see
the project
overview list.
Our partners in governance
Our work in the governance sector is supported by various partners
from the public, private and non-profit sectors. In 2010, these
included among others:
Case story Ecuador
By using local journalists, the project Ciudadania Informada ensures that it covers news from a different side than the news programmes in the cities.
Projects in sector governance
These include leveraging programmes, policy formulation processes and projects on the ground. All projects in Tanzania continue independently from IICD.
