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RAF/01/X02: Africa Governance Inventory (AGI) - Phase II
Main Expectations: The AGI Portal is expected to assist participating governments and their development partners to:
• share information on governance in Africa through the World Wide Web;
• promote regional partnerships
• improve programming, coordination, monitoring, evaluation, mobilization of resources and relevance of governance initiatives to MDGs.
The AGI can also affect the ability of donors, specialized agencies and multilateral organizations to respond to government priorities in different areas of governance.
Objective/Purpose of Project: Enhancing sustainable development in Africa through the provision of reliable and accountable governance related information. Specific objectives:
1. Upgrade and maintain software, approaches and tools for storing, retrieving, managing and analyzing financial and descriptive information on governance initiatives, implemented at local, national and regional levels, in Africa
2. Strengthen the capacity of governance focal points to provide data and information that can enable governments and stakeholders to programme, monitor and evaluate governance initiatives and to better coordinate and mobilize external resources allocated or to be allocated to governance at national level.
3. Strengthen linkages among focal points in view to enhancing information flow, promoting coordination of resources allocated to governance and stronger partnerships at regional level.
4. Strengthen linkages between AGI and governance initiatives in Africa including NEPAD and Africa Governance Forum.
Key Accomplishments: • More than half of the continent’s countries participated in the AGI initiative since 1999.
• Internet portal - with English and French interfaces - containing a regional database on governance programmes in Africa (quantitative and qualitative data on 2,693 governance initiatives since the 1990s for a total budget of over US$18 billion).
• National electronic databases on governance programmes and projects available on the Internet.
• English and French Guidelines on database management, methods, tools and approaches for programming, monitoring, evaluating and coordinating governance initiatives utilizing the AGI.
• Enhanced capacity of the national units to manage national knowledge databases, including tracking performance in various areas of governance and monitoring/evaluating governance initiatives.
• Enhanced information flow on governance priorities in Africa and enriched discussion on governance thematic subjects in the context of regional initiat
Cooperation Partners: UNDP, Government focal points in Africa
Time Frame: December 2000 – December 2009
Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$890,970
Division: PACB
For more information about this project, please see here.