Ezatullah ADIB
15+ years of experience working with civil society organizations/NGOs and Research Organizations on research projects and training. I have worked for 6+ years with Integrity Watch Afghanistan to promote government transparency, accountability, access to information, and to fight corruption in Afghanistan. I am the current National Country Representative of WAPOR and the World Values Survey Association in Afghanistan.
My areas of expertise include:
Project Management;
Training;
Research (design, methodology, data collection, treatment, and analysis);
Civil society involvement in anti-corruption efforts;
Government transparency, access to information, and open data to promote integrity and accountability;
Transparency in public procurement and public spending;
My areas of expertise include:
Project Management;
Training;
Research (design, methodology, data collection, treatment, and analysis);
Civil society involvement in anti-corruption efforts;
Government transparency, access to information, and open data to promote integrity and accountability;
Transparency in public procurement and public spending;
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Democratic deficits arise at every level, from public policy decisions to the local provision of public services. The latter has the most tangible effect on the lives of ordinary people as it represents their primary interaction with the state apparatus. In an enduring situation of poor local service provision, disengagement of citizens is high. With disengagement comes lack of advocacy and monitoring, and a vicious circle of public service deterioration.
The Citizen Report Card (CRC) research is designed to address this problem and close the currently existing democratic gap. Through an opinion survey targeting a representative sample of the users of 16 public services, we assess citizens’ perceptions and views of the service provision in their municipalities. Starting in Kabul in 2014 and 2016 and followed by eight other municipalities in 2017, Integrity Watch Afghanistan has pioneered the CRC methodologies’ implementation in the country.
Despite this, in many countries, a sort of democratic deficit has emerged at the local level whereby relatively few citizens even bother to vote, let alone engage in local politics in less formal ways, such as through advocacy or monitoring. This is exacerbated by a more general lack of accountability on the part of public agencies, which operate as monopolies and are thus not really subject to consumer pressure. This can create a vicious circle around the provision of municipal services, whereby citizens become less and less engaged as performance drops.
Solid information about where the country stands in terms of access to information is crucially important to guide implementation efforts by different stakeholders, including government, public institutions, the Oversight Commission on Access to Information (the oversight body created by the Law - OCAI), civil society and the media. This information will point to the areas where more efforts are needed, as well as how to target those efforts so that they are as effective as they can be.
Democratic deficits arise at every level, from public policy decisions to the local provision of public services. The latter has the most tangible effect on the lives of ordinary people as it represents their primary interaction with the state apparatus. In an enduring situation of poor local service provision, disengagement of citizens is high. With disengagement comes lack of advocacy and monitoring, and a vicious circle of public service deterioration.
The Citizen Report Card (CRC) research is designed to address this problem and close the currently existing democratic gap. Through an opinion survey targeting a representative sample of the users of 16 public services, we assess citizens’ perceptions and views of the service provision in their municipalities. Starting in Kabul in 2014 and 2016 and followed by eight other municipalities in 2017, Integrity Watch Afghanistan has pioneered the CRC methodologies’ implementation in the country.
Despite this, in many countries, a sort of democratic deficit has emerged at the local level whereby relatively few citizens even bother to vote, let alone engage in local politics in less formal ways, such as through advocacy or monitoring. This is exacerbated by a more general lack of accountability on the part of public agencies, which operate as monopolies and are thus not really subject to consumer pressure. This can create a vicious circle around the provision of municipal services, whereby citizens become less and less engaged as performance drops.
Solid information about where the country stands in terms of access to information is crucially important to guide implementation efforts by different stakeholders, including government, public institutions, the Oversight Commission on Access to Information (the oversight body created by the Law - OCAI), civil society and the media. This information will point to the areas where more efforts are needed, as well as how to target those efforts so that they are as effective as they can be.