This online toolkit by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (http://fair.org/) provides “how-to” guides for identifying, documenting and challenging inaccurate or unfair news coverage, along with information about how to promote independent media.
The International Budget Partnership collaborates with civil society around the world to use budget analysis and advocacy as a tool to improve effective governance and reduce poverty.
Though it's not clear from the website who is funding or running this initiative, they do say: Open contracting refers to norms and practices for increased disclosure and participation in public contracting including tendering, performance and completion.
Feedback Labs is a consortium of like-minded organizations committed to making governments, NGOs and donors more responsive to the needs of their constituents. They frame, convene and mainstream the idea of feedback loops. Their online resource database is a unique collection of theoretical and practical tools.
From website: IATI is a voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to improve the transparency of aid, development, and humanitarian resources in order to increase their effectiveness in tackling poverty.
A Nigerian network of NGOs, CSOs, academics, activists, journalists, development consultants, and students who run service delivery monitoring groups, write reports and blogs, design websites, create infographics, code for go
LIG is a southern non-profit working based in Nepal and London with data-driven solutions for smarter governance. Their beta site shows an ambitious mission with an innovative approach.
These are important obligations that communities can use to hold aid actors accountable. From website: The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability sets out Nine Commitments that organisations and individuals involved in humanitarian response can use to improve the quality and effectiveness of the assistance they provide.
From website: Social Watch is an international network of citizens’ organizations in the struggle to eradicate poverty and the causes of poverty, to end all forms of discrimination and racism, to ensure an equitable distribution of wealth and the realization of human rights.
From website: The Reality of Aid
