In a presentation to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on July 10, 2014, Vinay Bhargava called for increased support for citizen-led programs. He specifically drew from examples of PTF supported projects where everyday citizens successfully demanded basic health benefits in India, monitored medicine supply in the Philippines, and protected forest…...
PTF Launches Barry Metzger Rule of Law Initiative
On May 14, 2014, the Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) launched the Barry Metzger Rule of Law Initiative at the law offices of Baker & McKenzie in Washington, DC. The initiative is designed to respect the humanitarian and legal values that PTF founder and board member Barry Metzger promoted throughout his life by promoting systems of justice…...
World Bank promotes citizen action to help fight corruption and poverty
PTF’s Board Chair, Anabel Cruz, and Chief Technical Adviser, Vinay Bhargava, were quoted in an article written by Stella Dawson on citizen-led anti-corruption interventions. Anabel Cruz “warned of fatigue among poor citizens over efforts to engage them in the development process, especially when results are not clear.” We have to be…...
PTF Chief Technical Adviser Vinay Bhargava to Host Two Seminars in Switzerland
PTF Chief Technical Adviser to speak at two seminars in Switzerland to discuss PTF's work and the new book Citizens Against Corruption: Report from the Frontline by PTF co-founder and former president Pierre Landell-Mills. The first seminar titled “Is Supporting Citizens Against Corruption Good For Business?” is ......
Pierre-Landell Mills to discuss Citizens Against Corruption at OpenGovHub BBL – TOMORROW 6/12
Join us tomorrow at the OpenGov Hub for a special Brown-Bag Lunch (BBL) session with Pierre Landell-Mills, co-founder and former president of PTF, who will present his new book Citizens Against Corruption – Report from the Frontline. According to Landell-Mills, “this book challenges the notion that, at best, civil society…...
PTF at ADB Annual Meeting, New Delhi
PTF Board Director Dante de los Angeles chaired a PTF seminar at the annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank on May 5, 2013 in New Delhi: "How Civil Society Empowerment Improves Governance and Development Results of Public Service Delivery" on May 5, 2013. Lead presenter PTF Director and ......
PTF Chief Technical Adviser Vinay Bhargava to Speak at MIT
Corruption, a universal problem, victimizes the poor bottom billion of the global population. These poor are bypassed by trickle-down growth strategies. They suffer chronic poverty. Corruption robs them of services and social safety benefits intended to alleviate their plight. Decades of efforts to reform government’s own accountability systems to control…...
PTF Hosts South Asia Workshop
From November 29th to December 2nd, PTF hosted a peer learning and knowledge sharing workshop in Jaipur, India. The workshop was focused on engaging citizens in fighting against corruption in Asia. An array of civil society actors from across South Asia and beyond were in attendance. PTF partner civil society…...
What happened when 38 CSOs from 8 countries got together and exchanged experiences in engaging citizens against corruption?
Government accountability, right to information laws as a more effective tool than bribery, youth groups exposing use of sub standard materials in road construction, pregnant women getting the benefit of hospital services without paying bribes were just a few of the cases and ideas discussed when 38 CSOs ......
