Resources

• Right to Know, Right to Education roundtable in November 2011
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  06 Oct 2011Access to Information in the Provision of Quality Basic Education: Exploring its Role in Supporting Government and Civil Society’s Quest for Quality Education that Makes ...

• Community dialogues promote parental involvement
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  04 Oct 2011Six School Community Dialogues were held in Northern Province of Zambia under the Right to Know, Right to Education Project. These Community Dialogues on Parent ...

• Women claim their decision-making space in school governance processes
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  04 Oct 2011Recent community dialogue meetings in Lugari, Malindi and Kisii Central have shown the huge potential and capacities of women to participate in and influence development ...

• Parents and community leaders take action to end pupil absenteeism on market days
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  04 Oct 2011The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) in partnership with Idasa’s Right to Know, Right to Education project has worked together to address the major ...

• The Right to Know, Right to Education Project
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  05 Jul 2011This project, within Idasa's Economic Governance Programme, aims to broaden and improve access to basic education in sub-Saharan Africa by linking capacity building, training advocacy ...

• Day of the African Child
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  31 Mar 2011Petronella Murowe of Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme examines the issues in this year’s theme: “Children Without Appropriate Care”.   Every year on June 16, the ...

• Education top priority in growth strategy proposals
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  29 Mar 2011Malawi’s overarching development policy, the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS), expires in 2011 and the government has just concluded consultations with stakeholders on the ...

• Citizens struggle to practice access to information laws
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  29 Mar 2011Uganda has an Access to Information law but what happens in practice is totally different. The general public struggles to access information, as demonstrated in ...

• District education officials provide backing at last
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  29 Mar 2011Right to Know, Right to Education partner in Ghana, the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), can at last report some progress in engaging with ...

• What blocks participation of women in public forums?
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  29 Mar 2011Recent,community dialogues in Lugari, Malindi and Kisii Central in Kenya are testimony to the huge potential and capacity of women to participate in and influence ...

• Twenty three percent of targeted schools reached
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  29 Mar 2011The establishment of a relationship between parents, school committees and local councillors (bucopho) is a major achievement for the project. This was done through a ...

• Welcome to the Right to Know, Right to Education Programme
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  29 Mar 2011The Right to Know, Right to Education Project within Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme, funded by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DfID), works with ...

• RTK partner behind civil society participation in Parliament
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  29 Mar 2011The draft Constitution of Zambia Amendment Bill and the Education Act Amendment Bill tabled before parliament in 2010 attracted a lot of civil society participation ...

• Linking access to information and quality education - Call for Papers
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  04 Nov 2010  Education is recognized as a universal human right and is one of the Millenium Development Goals. Access to information is often overlooked as a ...

• Claimed and yet forgotten
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  03 Nov 2010By: Petronella Murowe “For poor people like us, education should be an instrument for liberation.” (Nyerere).  The rights to education and access to information are ...

• The Ugandan experience of budget monitoring at grassroots level
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  21 Oct 2010By Pamela Kamusiime    Grassroots Action for Progress is an organisation in Igaanga, Uganda, about 150 kilometres east of Kampala. Their chairman, Hajj Rajab Ssengooba, ...

• Role of civil society in budget oversight in Uganda
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  21 Oct 2010By Pamela Kamusiime  The Rights Based Budget training held in Kampala, Uganda from 11th-16th October 2010 gave participants an opportunity to work with people from ...

• Governance and Lies
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  15 Oct 2010By Thembinkosi Dlamini The events of the recent past show that things in Swaziland have reached their logical conclusion – countries pay a price for ...

• Activities for Right to Know Day
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  28 Sep 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 ...

• Understanding right to education and access to information in Ghana
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  20 Sep 2010A study by the Right to Know-Right to Education project in Ghana demonstrates that although schools are showing some improvements in meeting UNESCO standards, citizens ...

• No Information, no peace: How parliamentarians will benefit from freedom of information legislation
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  26 Jul 2010Current parliamentary debate within South Africa on the proposed Protection of Information Bill has got NGOs like Idasa worried about the threat it poses to ...

• 20% of Malawi budget allocated to education
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  30 Jun 2010Growth in the percentage allocated to education in the new Malawian national budget raises teachers’ hopes, especially in the rural areas. Malawi has allocated substantial ...

• Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition's satement on passage of right to information bill in Ghana
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  28 Oct 2009The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) recognizes the right to information as a fundamental human right and the touchstone for all the freedoms necessary ...

• Africa needs transparency
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  28 Sep 2009Why is the “right to know” valuable to people pursuing their ordinary, daily concerns? Information is power, so claiming the right to know is about ...

• Council disconnects children's water
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  08 Sep 2009The decision to shut off water and electricity to schools is a violation of human rights, of the right to education in particular.  Though the ...

• Right to Know Essential in Africa
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  31 Aug 2009The right to know is essential in Africa.  Read this article by Francina Mhundwa, published in the Weekend Observer in August 2009 – download below