COPSA: Maximising benefits of SA

September 18, 2012

Om Prakash AryaCUTS, India

• 2.63 billion do not have access to improved

sanitation facilities

• 1.7 billion people lack access to clean water

• 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity.

• 925 million people do not have enough to eat

• 22,000 children die each day due to conditions of

poverty

• 80 percent of south Asians survives below two

dollar a day

World’s Population: 6.8 billion

What do you say not reaching to them• Food?• Water?• Medicine• Sanitation?• Electricity?• Employment?

The Secret…

If not completely, mostly the knowledge is not reaching

Or Information & Knowledge?

Arranging the marriage of ideas …

If I have a rupee and you have a

rupee and we exchange, we both will

be left with a rupee but if both of us

have an idea each, by the exchange

of it, both of us will be left with 2

ideas. And if we let the ideas get

married and have children without

using any family planning methods,

we can’t imagine the number of ideas

we will have.

1. Connect people across countries to share information and opportunities

2. Encourage innovation and the sharing of practical experience

3. Inspire collaboration between countries4. Help development practitioners get

results out of their knowledge exchange5. Facilitate new methods of capacity

development6. Develop resources for others who want

to development differently

We are putting efforts to …

• To contribute towards the development goal of improved lives through ensuring accountability and Transparency.

• To put efforts towards removing the major constraints limiting people/ institutions in achievement of this goal

• To improve expenditure outcomes of public money

Why are we putting efforts to …

How…

• Nurture and consolidate sharing of knowledge

• Facilitate networking, innovation and co-creation of new knowledge

• Facilitate mainstreaming social accountability and integrate it into country/region specific work

The Steps covered …

• Finalization of a core group• Country consultation• Inception and Design meet for COPSA• Online platform for engagement

The Road ahead…

• Promoting Innovation• Capacity building of members• Sensitization of funding agencies/

Government

The road …

Initial building blocks…

• The growing base of community

• The traffic on the CoPSA web portal

(Accountability Solutions) is increasing

• 216 practitioners of social accountability in

south Asia getting regular updates

• Total 107 weekly reach on the facebook page

of Accountability Solutions

• People have started taking part in discussion

forums, writing blogs etc.

• Expect from the existing community to motivate people to join CoPSA

• Create, collect and share stories, cases, tools, documents, digital stories etc.

• Put your efforts to strengthen the network

• Engage community to ensure accountability and transparency by innovative tools

• Sensitize donor organizations about social accountability approaches and demand fund for such work

Expectations…

Thank Thank YouYou