This FAO legislative study analyses the normative content of the right to adequate food in emergency situations, examining the provisions of human rights law as well as those of other relevant branches of international law, including international humanitarian law, refugee law, criminal law, economic law and environmental law. The study uses the analytical framework classifying the obligations relating to the right to adequate food in obligation to respect, obligation to protect and obligation t more...

The report was written by Dr Andrew Grainger incorporating research by Dr Olivia Bosch and material prepared by the staff of SITPRO. It provides a guide to the various steps towards a secure supply chain that are being implemented around the world, as they relate to the UK. It examines the many different often overlapping types of security initiatives in place, the government bodies involved and the types of business affected. It also provides brief summaries of the major initiatives shaping the more...

This article reviews the trends in government subsidies and investments in and for Indian agriculture; develops a conceptual framework and a model to assess the impact of various subsidies and investments on agricultural growth and poverty reduction; and presents reform options with regard to re-prioritizing government spending.
2008. Fan, Shenggen; Gulati, Ashok; Thorat, Sukhadeo. Agricultural Economics 39(2): page:163-170.

'This case study examines how the mutual accountability process operates in Mozambique. In particular, it looks at MA (Mutual Accountability) as a dynamic process which evolves over time. This repeated interaction between the parties has important implications for the sorts of processes that can be sustained within the confines of voluntary agreements. The MA process comprises multiple parties and commitments, which means there are also lines of accountability which run in differing directions. more...

This Primer presents a general overview of this process, the key results of the first official round of monitoring, and the main concerns and recommendations put forward by CSOs participating in the parallel process towards the HLF3.

This article argues that although the Paris Declaration is an important step in establishing an international consensus on aid, its ability to make aid work in the long term is questionable without the availability of publically available, reliable, qualitative and quantitative information on civil society organisations (CSOs). This type of transparency and accountability it is argued will serve to increase democratic ownership and accountability as well as provide a useful tool for donors, gov more...

On August 8, 2008, the US Government Accountability Project (GAP) filed a report with the U.S. Treasury Department that exposes the World Bank’s role in the widespread corruption surrounding privatization in Azerbaijan during the late 1990’s. The report shows that James Wolfensohn, then president of the World Bank, personally assisted a rogue financier in his efforts to gain control of the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR). While these efforts were ultimately unsuccessf more...

This book presents case studies of effective, innovative reform programs .These programs have improved democratic governance and the business climate to deliver tangible benefits to citizens. Each chapter in this book illustrates an important theme in the development of democratic, free market societies, sector participation.

In 2008, Transparency International with several leading providers of relief and reconstruction assistance analysed the corruption risks faced by humanitarian agencies and the measures they use to address those risks.
The research report was carried out by the Feinstein International Center of Tufts University (FIC) in collaboration with the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute in London (ODI) and Transparency International (TI). Seven major international human more...

It is a story that leads from the oil-rich coast of western Africa to the gas-guzzling consumers of America and Europe, via a trail of government fraud and corporate deceit that successive UK judges have publicly condemned. And American bankers who have been derided as “vultures”, but who have managed to find out more about corruption in Africa than Scotland Yard and the FBI. By Tony Allen-Mills, The Times, June 15, 2008.