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The key objectives of this project are to develop a framework for a result oriented participatory budgeting process and to f oster an understanding of focusing on results through resource allocation decision making process in Africa and Latin America . The project is expected to have multiple impacts. These include:

  • Developing a framework for a process of participation that is focused on results;
  • To enable all citizens of a community to identify ways that will lead to the betterment of the community and to its development;
  • Improving access to and quality of service delivery, to give confidence to citizens and to foster a feeling of belonging as well as improving their living standards; and
  • To enhance country progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals as they are in line with what most public programs set out to achieve

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Members in this Group:

 

 
Name: Takawira Mumvuma
Position: Coordinator - Participatory Budgeting Programme Coordinator
Institution: Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa
e-mail: Moderator

Biography:
Takawira Mumvuma is the Coordinator of the Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa 's Policy Research and Participatory Budgeting Programme and a Development Economics lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe . He is currently also a visiting lecturer at Africa University where he teaches a course on Decentralization and Local Governance offered in their Public Sector Management Masters Programme. He has authored and co-authored many book chapters, articles and manuals on issues of enterprise development, local economic development, trade, policy reforms, participatory budgeting and social accountability in Africa . He holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Zimbabwe and a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague , Netherlands . .
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
NEWS FLASHES


On the 19th of March 2009, the World Bank Institute, together with MDP-ESA and CIGU, successfully hosted a virtual Global Learning Development Network (GDLN) Dissemination Event featuring project presentations from the Africa-Latin America Peer to Peer Mutual Learning Initiative on Participatory Budgeting (PB). A total of 40 participants from 14 GDLN sites and World Bank Country Offices in Latin America and Sub Saharan Africa. Read More >>

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Mdp-Esa Minutes For The Video Conference On The Africa-Latin America Peer-To-Peer Learning Initiative On Participatory Budgeting, Held On The 8 th Of August, 1000 -1300 Hours (USA-WT)

An Update on Where We are with The Africa-Latin America Peer To Peer Mutual Learning Initiative on Participatory Budgeting
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Africa Regional Conference on Participatory Budgeting successfully held
Durban, March 10-14
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