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Interview with Jalal Abdel Latif, Chief of the Civil Society Section, Governance and Public Administration Division
16/10/08
Keisha Taylor (GuideStar International) Interviews Jalal Abdel Latif, Chief of Section, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA)
Mr. Latif spoke to us about plans for GuideStar Africa and UN-ECA’s role in the initiative.
In the interview we talked about:
- Why UN-ECA decided to work towards building a GuideStar system
- How information could help achieve the goal of aid effectiveness of the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action
- The opportunities that exist and constraints that will be faced in developing a GuideStar for Africa
- The ways in which the challenge of limited internet access could possibly be overcome
- The primary source of the data
- The way in which African civil society as a whole can benefit from the system
Read the entire interview
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