Vertically Integrated Policy Monitoring: A Tool for Civil Society Policy Advocacy

Abstract

Effective independent civil society monitoring of public policy processes requires "vertical

The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives

“…It could shed much light on understandings of accountability, not least the notion that, in a world of globalised governance, accountability cannot be understood or secured by addressing any one level of governance, but needs to be grasped as the 'vertical integration' or interaction of accountability actors or coalitions at multiple levels, including the private sector as significant but non-state actors. As early as 2001 this point was made convincingly -and the term 'vertical integration' coined -by Fox in relation to decentralised governance and policy processes (Fox, 2001).…”

Policy advocacy: contribuições para a construção de um conceito a partir de uma revisão sistemática da literatura

“…Segundo Fox (2001), a partir da ascensão dos movimentos de direitos civis nos Estados Unidos durante a década de 1960, o termo advocacy passou a ser utilizado não somente para a defesa jurídica de indivíduos, mas fora ampliado para três direções justiça: [...] O termo policy advocacy é pouco conhecido no Brasil e ainda não há uma terminologia equivalente ou tradução exata para a língua portuguesa que contemple satisfatoriamente a amplitude de significado do termo. No idioma espanhol, a expressão policy advocacy é entendida como incidencia política, que significa "pressão política" e no Brasil o termo "advocacia polí-tica" é empregado na tradução, ainda não definitiva de policy advocacy.…”

Roles of Diverse Stakeholders in Natural Resources Management and Their Relationships with Regional Bodies in New South Wales, Australia

“…Meaningful and inclusive engagement processes that value the context-specific tacit knowledge of NRM stakeholders about the social-ecological system in which they are embedded (Busch, 2004;Smith & Bosch, 2004) are fundamental to this transformation. The knowledge generated through such processes must also be used actively in decision making because policy makers' information about actual institutional performance is very limited, rarely field based, and drawn mainly from interested parties (Fox, 2001). Marshall (2011) suggests that strong incentives need to be created for NRM decision makers to embrace investment decision-making frameworks that are more rigorous and comprehensive than those they currently use.…”