TRAINING OF DUTY BEARERS ON INCLUSIVE BUDGET PROCESSES ON 01 NOVEMBER 2022
Today we start a workshop with members of Specialised Parliamentary Committees and Line Ministries responsible for food security, nutrition and WASH in South Sudan. This is an opportune time to re-emphasise our agenda, and steer the participants towards the goal of increasing financial resources to end hunger and improve WASH interventions. #Right2Grow #ChildRightsCoalition
Just announced! Jerry Greenfield to Keynote Together Against Hunger this October 2022
Jerry Greenfield, Ben & Jerry's co-founder and brand ambassador will join Action Against Hunger as a keynote speaker at the Together Against Hunger event happening October 12-13, 2022 in Washington, D.C. and livestreamed to a majority virtual audience.
Jerry is a champion for social causes and deeply believes that ending hunger is a cause worth fighting for and one we cannot afford to lose. Jerry, along with Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen, received The James Beard Humanitarians of the Year and the Peace Museum's Community Peacemakers of the Year Awards in 2021.
Visit Our Mali/ Burkina Faso Page
BurkinaFaso BMET Training Brief 12 November 2021. As a part of the implementation of the Right to Grow Project (R2G), the Centre for Economic Governance and Accountability in Africa (CEGAA), based in South Africa, in collaboration with the Civil Society Network for Nutrition RESONUT Burkina and its partners in Mali organized from 02 to 05 November 2021.
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WELCOME TO CEGAA
The Centre for Economic Governance and Accountability in Africa (CEGAA) was founded in 2006 as a regional civil society organisation focused on attaining effective, rights-based and developmental health financing in Africa to enable a comprehensive response to HIV/AIDS.
We provide training, capacity-building, research and advocacy services to and through community structures, government stakeholders and legislatures in support of an empowered civil society and skilled public servants.
CEGAA joins forces with the Right2Grow Global Consortium (2021 – 2025)
The Dutch government selected the Right2Grow alliance as one of its 20 key strategic civil society partnerships to fund from 2021-2025. An alliance to end undernutrition in all its forms, through community-led approaches and advocacy. The Hunger Project Netherlands is the lead partner in the consortium, working together with World Vision, Action Against Hunger, Save the Children, Max Foundation and CEGAA from South Africa. The winning proposal was jointly developed, starting with co-design workshops in each of the six programme countries: Bangladesh, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso. CEGAA leads the budget advocacy and accountability wing of the alliance, working with budget monitoring and expenditure tracking (BMET) partners in the programme countries.
CEGAA ANNUAL REPORT 2016/2017
CEGAA has continued to show considerable growth in its tenth year. This has been due to our dynamic team of dedicated and skilled staff, our supportive and informed Board of Trustees, our committed and energetic partners throughout Southern and East Africa, and not least, our donors and clients who have continued to believe in our services and potential. I thank you all for your contribution, energy, enthusiasm and commitment, which have played an important role in driving CEGAA's vision forward.
CEGAA participated in the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Innovation for Inclusive Development (IID) Seminar
CEGAA participated in the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Innovation for Inclusive Development (IID) Seminar, focusing on Measuring What Counts: How suitable are our research tools, measures and indicators for promoting innovation for inclusive and sustainable development?The aim of this policy seminar was to build an understanding of how participatory visual methods can facilitate Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) measurement and the development of indicators that are grounded in the lived realities of actors that have been traditionally marginalised from the formal national system of innovation (NSI), from the formal economy and from decision-making processes.
CEGAA takes part in the exciting Budget Data Quest and Budget Hackathon in KwaZulu-Natal
CEGAA is participating in a budget transparency initiative called Vulekamali(vulekamali.gov.za), an initiative of the National Treasury and IMALI YETHU - a budget coalition of civil society organisations with interest in budget policy matters. Vulekamali is an online budget data portal allowing scrutiny of national, provincial and local government budget documents by interested parties.The Vulekamali stakeholders are hosting a series of provincial events to promote the portal and facilitate analyses and debate among government and civil society stakeholders on Open Budgets for Health and Food Security. On 26 November 2018 the KwaZulu-Natal Treasury hosted a multi-stakeholder briefing in Pietermaritzburg where stakeholders looked at the portal and practiced using it. It was found to be an invaluable resource for people interested in budget matters, whether in the community or inside government.The Vulekamali Online Budget Data Portal DataQuest and Hackathon events took place in Durban on the 27th and 28th November 2018.The Budget Data Quest aimed to bring together a diverse audience to explore their budget analysis and advocacy needs. Participants reflected on the national and provincial budget information available on vulekamali.gov.za to determine what information is of interest to them, and how it should be presented to be of most value.The Budget Hackathon brought together participants with a wide array of skills and problem solving abilities, with the ultimate goal of exploring solutions to budget analysis and advocacy problems. Participants were encouraged to work in teams to determine and solve these problems, which emanated from the Dataquest, and fed into the next day's Hackathon.The Budget Hackathon attracted participants with technical and non technical expertise as well as a wide range of skills, including: budget analysis, budget advocacy, fiscal understanding, data wrangling, programming, journalism, economists to name but a few. The focused, problem-solving approach of a hackathon complemented the exploratory discussions in the Data Quest.Civil society organisations, community interest groups, individuals, government officials, journalists and parliamentarians are encouraged to visit the Vulekamali portal for their budget data needs.Any questions can be addressed to Zukiswa Kota (z.kota@ru.ac.za), the Lead Coordinator of Imali Yethu coalition.
KEEPING TRACK OF HIV AND TB SPENDING IN SOUTH AFRICA: 2013/14 TO 2020/21 EXPENDITURE AND BUDGET REVIEW OCCASIONAL PAPER 2018-1
This paper outlines some trends in South Africa’s economic situation, its national and provincial health allocations generally, HIV and TB allocations and spending, and then take a closer look at spending trends at provincial and sub-programme levels in 2016/17. Our analyses are based on 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 budget and expenditure documents, 2016/17 provincial HIV CG Evaluation Reports, and CG quarterly reports.The paper notes some achievements in the HIV and TB spending in SA. The reported improvements in service delivery and health outcomes would not have been possible without the increasing political and financial commitment of the South African government, and continued support from funding and implementing partners.Some improvements in actual spending were made in 2016/17 after the provincial health HIV and TB finance and programme managers were provided with training and technical support by the FINCAP Project of CEGAA/ HE2RO to improve costing of the Conditional Grant (CG) business plans and management of provincial finances. More accurate costing was promoted to ensure reasonable targets in line with available resources and real expenditure. Provinces were encouraged to accelerate their recruitment process of key personnel required for the expansion of the treatment programme, and to ensure that procurement and payment for services were done in line with the business plan timeframes. The FINCAP Project, in partnership with the National Department of Health and special support from Strategic Development Consultants (SDC), has contributed vastly to these improvements.FINCAP was a successful five-year (2013 – 2017) partnership project between CEGAA and HE2RO as part of HE2RO’s INROADS Programme, with funding from USAID. It was extended for another year in 2018 to deepen its interventions at district level.
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A Message for 2016 International AIDS Conference
The South African Government (SAG) has since 2012/13 spent more than R4.5 trillion on public policy including education, health and social development programmes. An analysis of seven years (2012/13 – 2018/19) of the total government’s consolidated no
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A Quick Review of the 2014/15 First Quarter Spending of the Health HIV and AIDS Conditional Grants by Provinces
South Africa's HIV and AIDS pandemic is one of the highest in the world with an HIV and AIDS prevalence of 15.9% in the adult population (15-49 years old) as of the year 2013 (Statistics South Africa 2014). The prevalence amongst women (15-49 years old)
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