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Feb
1
2022
6:00—7:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
January 11, 2022
National government agencies can struggle to reach the periphery of their state, to places of poverty, international borders and geostrategic concerns, or they can direct their limited resources to security enforcement over service delivery. While the influence of local and district governments rema...
Jun
16
2021
9:00—10:15 AM Washington DC time
June 03, 2021
How much about COVID-19 purchasing agreements is available in the public domain? And how can data sharing and contract publication help policymakers decide how much vaccine countries should buy, who should pay, and how they should be delivered and distributed?
Jul
15
2020
9:30—10:45 AM ET
July 10, 2020
Members of Parliament have an important role to play in tackling COVID-19 and assuring the health and wellbeing of their citizens, especially as they consider resource allocation decisions specific to their national, economic, and social contexts. Further, as executive offices of government take the...
Mar
14
2019
4:00—5:30 PM
March 05, 2019
Every year, governments worldwide sign contracts worth trillions of dollars. Citizens should know what is in those contracts, so that they can hold governments accountable. They can only do so if the contracts are published. However, there are cases in which full publication of all the information i...
May
2
2018
4:00—5:30 PM
April 18, 2018
Pascale Hélène Dubois will discuss the global impact of World Bank investigation and prevention activities and then join a panel with Kathrin Frauscher, Deputy and Program Director, Open Contracting Partnership and Hasan Tuluy, Partnership for Transparency Board Director, former World ...
Apr
20
2018
9:00—10:30 AM
April 05, 2018
Corruption can siphon desperately needed resources away from development, but as some anti-corruption advocates have found, taking on vested interests can come at a great personal risk to their livelihoods—or even their lives. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s new book, Fighting Corruption Is D...
Jan
17
2018
9:30—11:00 AM
January 08, 2018
Due to the potential for snow tomorrow, we are unfortunately canceling this event. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you at CGD soon.
Please join Crispian Olver for a discussing of his latest book How to Steal a City: The Battle for Nelson Mandela Bay: An Inside Account.&n...
Sep
7
2017
5:00—6:30 PM
August 07, 2017
In The Shadow List, State Department crisis expert Judd Ryker is chasing an American banker who’s disappeared after falling for a Nigerian scam. Meanwhile, his CIA wife Jessica is hunting a notorious Russian mob boss. Little do they know, they’re pulling on opposite ends of the same dang...
Jun
13
2017
12:30—2:00 PM
June 02, 2017
Many developing countries are using digital technology to reform public service delivery. The convergence of financial inclusion, mobile networks and digital ID is transforming the way governments deliver public services and citizens access entitlements, including public subsidies. Are these refo...