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Lara Taylor-Pearce on transparency and accountability in public financial management

In this interview with Sierra Leone's Auditor General, Lara Taylor-Pearce, we discussed the role of the audit office in ensuring transparency and accountability in public financial management and the associated challenges of trying to do so.

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Citizens ‘Making Noise’: Keeping Track of Buhari’s Government

23 Jun 2015

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BudgIT was founded in 2011 and aims to enable Nigerian citizens and policymakers to hold government to account for revenue and expenditure decisions through analysis of public data. ARI spoke to its founder, Oluseun Onigbinde.

Africa Research Institute's event with ICAI chief commissioner Graham Ward discussed in Gabriella Jozwiak's piece for Devex

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Devex, 14 October 2014

15 Oct 2014

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In this article for Devex, Gabriella Jóźwiak references ARI's September event "Aid under the microscope" at which aid watchdog ICAI's chief commissioner Graham Ward and colleagues discussed DFID's track record.