Sound of One Hand Clapping: Information Disclosure for Social and Political Action for Accountability in Extractive Governance in Mozambique

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Title
Sound of One Hand Clapping: Information Disclosure for Social and Political Action for Accountability in Extractive Governance in Mozambique
Abstract
Corruption through opaque public contracts costs Africa billions of dollars in revenue loss annually. Globally, initiatives to address this have centred on information disclosure (ID) but under what conditions does it work to promote accountability in the extractive sector that for a long time has seen its revenue management as being a major cause of conflict in Africa? Our study on this issue in Mozambique reveals intriguing findings, which suggest that protagonists of ID would need to recalibrate their strategies for promoting accountability. The study on ID in extractive governance in Mozambique has found 17 factors that connect to result in citizen and institutional inaction in demanding government accountability. The lessons from the study for policy and practice are that unless there is a link between ID and a government’s reputation, which scales up to the risk of a ruling government losing power, accountability is unlikely to occur when new information is disclosed.
Publisher
IDS
Date
2019-01-28
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-78118-511-7
Short Title
Sound of One Hand Clapping
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11/03/2021, 11:57
Library Catalogue
opendocs.ids.ac.uk
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This is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence, which permits downloading and sharing provided the original authors and source are credited – but the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
Extra
Accepted: 2019-01-28T16:38:12Z ISSN: 2040-0209
Citation
Awortwi, N., & Nuvunga, A. (2019). Sound of One Hand Clapping: Information Disclosure for Social and Political Action for Accountability in Extractive Governance in Mozambique. IDS. https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14305
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