This programme aims to ensure that the key principles of democracy – like accountability, citizen participation and access to information – enter into economic decision-making processes.
It is currently running the following projects:
The Public Expenditure and Smallholder Agriculture Project
The Right to Know, Right to Education Project
The Affiliated Network for Social Accountability
The Electricity Governance Initiative
Its mission statement is:
Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme (EGP) seeks to democratise economic decision making processes and resource management through sustained citizen engagement, to achieve sustainable socio-economic justice in Africa.
Beyond the jargon: The governance of climate finance
23 Nov 2011In this paper, Nancy Dubosse and Richard Calland argue that there is an urgent need to bring strategic and administrative coherence to the multiple sources ...
15 Set 2011Idasa provided Mali’s Budget Monitoring Group with three days of training in September that focused on what a budget is, budget analysis approaches, basic budget ...
07 Jul 2011By FDC and UNCIEF If the State Budget was a cake, each slice would be equivalent to different public policies and programmes implemented on an ...
22 Mai 2011Parliaments in sub-Saharan Africa are marginalised institutions with respect to national processes. Nancy Dubosse of Idasa's Economic Governance Programme argues that access to information can ...
22 Fev 2011Nancy Dubosse, head of Research at Idasa's Economic Governance Programme, introduces an interesting new angle to the upsurge of citizen protest we are seeing in ...
20 Fev 2011Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme, which monitors the state of democracy in Swaziland, kept a close watch on the Budget Speech delivered in that country’s parliament ...
27 Out 2010Thembinkosi Dlamini and Russell Wildeman SA is capable of sustaining two narratives. One, which provoked a Financial Times editorial suggesting the Protection of Information Bill ...
28 Set 2010Idasa is involved with partners, in a series of events to commemorate Right to Know day. We are working with partners in Ghana – Ghana National ...
21 Jul 2009By: Manyewu Mutamba Manyewu from our Economic Governance Programme (EGP) recently visited Liberia, Uganda and Mozambique to meet partners for the smallholder agriculture project who ...
15 Jan 2009Tell South Africa's Minister of Finance - Minister Trevor Manuel - how you think he can improve your life and South Africa's economy - Tips ...
08 Fev 2006The proposed medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF 2006) takes place against a background of improved economic growth prospects, favourable inflation numbers, and a deficit position that ...
28 Out 2005Current public policy in South Africa is a balancing act between providing social security, investing in human resources and increasing economic growth. The government views ...
04 Out 2005Global Transparency Initiative Launches Final Consultation on Draft Transparency Charter IDASA is the secretariat for The Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) - a network of civil ...
29 Out 2004While the major political parties continue to stone-wall on the issue of transparency in relation to private donations received by them, it appears as if ...
26 Jul 2001MACRO-ECONOMIC POLICY BRIEF NO. 1 Monetary Policy Committee Meeting on the repo-rate, 26 July 2001 What was the meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) ...
17 Abr 2012Idasa would like to invite participants from Civil Society organisations in South Africa to a course on Economic Policy Literacy. The course will be held ...
01 Fev 2012Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme (EGP) has examined South Africa’s Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) in the light of calls to amend it but finds that ...
Artigos: Beyond the jargon: The governance of climate finance
23 Nov 2011In this paper, Nancy Dubosse and Richard Calland argue that there is an urgent need to bring strategic and administrative coherence to the multiple sources ...
Relatórios Científicos: Revisiting the Principle of Country Ownership: Reflections on Climate Finance
14 Nov 2011This policy paper, from Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme, aims to identify ways to strengthen country-led approaches and to increase national participation in climate activities at ...
22-Set-2011Between 250 and 300 million Africans suffer from hunger.
19 Ago 2011The Public Expenditure and Smallholder Agriculture Project in African democracy institute, Idasa, has welcomed the Land Bank’s commitment to spend 1 billion rands on emerging farmers in the next two years as a move to unlock the long-term potential growth of agriculture as one of the pillars of South Africa’s economic development. Please read attached [...]![]()
The Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA)-Africa is a leading African advocate of citizen involvement in demand-side governance initiatives. ANSA-Africa Secretariat is hosted by Idasa.
The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance was adopted by the African Union in January 2007. Idasa is working with the African Development Forum to promote the Charter which encourages sustainable democracies in Africa, and has recently launched a project to build constituencies of support for the Charter in ...
Idasa's Economic Governance Programme (EGP)aims to put the politics back into economics – to address the current democratic deficit in the way that decisions are made about economic policy.
Idasa leads a consortium of South African civil society organisations and research institutes in the local chapter of the Electricity Governance Initiative (EGI). The consortium aims to improve governance of the electricity sector in South Africa.
Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme (EGP) is part of the Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) - a network of civil society organisations promoting openness in International Financial Institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, the IMF, the European Investment Bank and Regional Development Banks.
Programa de Governação e SIDA (GAP) da Idasa visa fortalecer a boa governação para combater os efeitos do VIH/SIDA, ao instituir a advocacia baseada em evidências, e promover o reforço das capacidade e a cidadania activa, tendo como alvo as Organizações Intergovernamentais (OIG) e respectivos actores não governamentais regionais. As ...
iLEDA - the initiative for Leadership and Democracy - is a democracy training programme for political and citizen leaders from across Africa.
The Political Governance Programme (PGP) aims to build and strengthen democratic institutions and relationships between elected representatives, appointed officials and citizens in order to enhance meaningful engagement between governments and citizens.
The Political Information and Monitoring Service (PIMS) provides insights into the South African legislative process in order to promote an open and accountable executive and strong, independent parliament.
In South Africa, there is currently no regulation of private funding to political parties. What this means is that donors can give as much as they want, in secret, to the political party of their choice. This lack of regulation of party funding may allow efforts of the wealthy to ...
The proposed Protection of Information Bill, being debated in South African parliament has generated much discussion among the public and the media, as people fear for media freedoms and their right to access information.
This programme aims to promote citizen safety, largely by researching and promoting crime interventions at local level.
The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) provides information regarding cross-border population migration, and promotes public awareness of the role, status and contribution of foreign immigrants of African origin in South Africa.
In addition to its main programme areas, Idasa also has special projects.
The States in Transition Observatory (SITO) facilitates understanding of challenges faced by African countries experiencing a democratic deficit, by providing analysis of political developments in countries in transition.
"Friends of Idasa" is Idasa's US office and builds support in the United States for Idasa and its programmes. As with Idasa's other offices, our US office aims to influence the discussion surrounding democracy and governance in Africa in order to raise awareness of Idasa’s work and help to mobilize ...
Youth Zones is a project that uses soccer to make a difference in the lives of young people living in vulnerable communities in Southern Africa