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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

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