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<span style="font-size:24px; color:#666666;text-transform:uppercase;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 36px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; font-family: 'Gill Sans', 'Gill Sans MT', Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(157, 157, 156); text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Seven New Research Grants to Understand What Works in Technology for Accountable Governance</h1></span><br>
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<span style="color:#666666; font-size:16px;" class="content"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(11, 11, 9); font-family: clearsans-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.3333px; border-radius: 0px !important;">Today Making All Voices Count is announcing seven new research projects that are helping us build a deeper understanding and evidence base on the role of technology in accountable governance. The call for proposals was divided into two parts Research Grants and Practitioner Research and Learning Grants.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(11, 11, 9); font-family: clearsans-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.3333px; border-radius: 0px !important;"><a href="http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=5d2f98cfbd&e=85d802e11c" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-radius: 0px !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">Rosemary McGee</a>, Research Coordinator for Making All Voices Count, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies outlines why this research is important in helping answer critical and persistent questions about governance initiatives:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(11, 11, 9); font-family: clearsans-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.3333px; border-radius: 0px !important;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased; border-radius:0px !important; box-sizing:border-box">“I find it really exciting that the programme will be helping generate answers to some of the questions that I and others have struggled with for some time, about the contexts, actors, mechanisms and outcomes of tech-enabled citizen voice and government responsiveness initiatives.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(11, 11, 9); font-family: clearsans-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.3333px; border-radius: 0px !important;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased; border-radius:0px !important; box-sizing:border-box">A few years ago I was involved in reviewing the effectiveness and impact of transparency and accountability work and had to conclude that the evidence base was full of holes. These seven projects are steps towards filling in some of the holes in evidence and theory. But also, some of them are going to answer specific accountability-related needs of our priority countries, they will all build or strengthen analytical and research capacity, and they are all going to produce findings that will increase the quality and relevance of action in this sector.”</em></p><span class="textheader"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><a href="http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=e15b97ead2&e=85d802e11c" target="_blank" style="color: #cf1209;">Read more ></a></span></span><a href="http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=c2f5a96f7e&e=85d802e11c" style="color: #cf1209;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></a></span></span></span><br>
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