A Quick Tour D’Horizon

Richard CallandMIAG, London, April 2009

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PURPOSE

Raise awareness of what else is out there (select sample)

Possible Learning/Experience Sharing Stimulate Debate about other initiatives, national and

international…. …that MeTA could leverage from, to strengthen its own

processes and avoid duplication, consolidate efforts and form strategic alliances.

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KEY QUESTIONS

Who should MeTA have strategic engagement and/or relationships with?

How should MeTA position itself and what should its persona/identity be? How should it be known, internationally, in, say, three years time?

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INTERNATIONAL MULTI-STAKEHOLDER INITIATIVES

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI); Permanent Secretariat in Oslo

Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST); PWC secretariat

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RELATED CIVIL SOCIETY CAMPAIGNS EG ‘PUBLISH WHAT YOU PAY’ CAMPAIGN AND

EITI

FIND/ENCOURAGE SHADOW CIVIL SOCIETY MOVEMENT FOR MeTA

Who are the big Health INGOs/Campaigns?

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INTERNATIONAL TRANSPARENCY CIVIL SOCIETY INITIATIVES

International Budget Project (IBP), out of Washington DC, but with projects around the world, including the Open Budget Index (OBI)

ACCESS INITIATIVE – led by World Resources Initiative

Electricity Governance Initiative – also WRI

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Global Transparency Initiative (www.ifitransparency.org): eight organisations from around the world; marriage between ‘IFI-watch’ crowd and FOI organisations

Carter Center: has access to information & health programs…international standard-setting initiatives on ATi & development (Laura Neuman)

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Global FOI network…(foia.net)

African Centre for Freedom of Information (AFRIC)

GLOBAL TRANSPARENCY FUND(GTF – DFID)

130 UCL Centre for International Health and Development, (CIHD)

Improving access to quality health care for rural and urban poor in China

334 The International Budget Project at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The Open Budget Initiative

361 Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS Ensuring accountability for promises made to achieve universal access to HIV care, treatment and prevention by 2010

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Strong National FOI Laws & Strong National NGOsEg: Bulgaria Mexico Jamaica South Africa (constitutional right to privately-held

information, where required for exercise or protection of any right)

India (see specially tailored sector-specific laws, to supplement general FOI law)

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GLOBAL BODIES/ACTORS UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON FREEDOM OF

EXPRESSION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

INFORMATION COMMISSIONERS (OSLO, SEPT 2009)

REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS RAPPORTEURS (EG LATIN AMERICA)

UNDP: CENTRE FOR GOVERNANCE WHO?

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OTHER:

National professional associations such as Canadian Association of Access Administrators

COGEL: North American association of ethics officers

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QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

1. Entities to engage with internationally?

2. Entities to engage with in-country?

3. What persona/identity for MeTA do we want to build?

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OTHER ENTITIES/CHARACTERISTICS TO ENGAGE WITH

Organisations - International In-Country Characteristics

Transparency International Transparency

WHO Openness

Public citizens of US (may be controversial)

Global space

Science based org (clinical trials...) Set standards

World Bank

Global Fund

USAID

COSTS/EITI

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META PERSONA/IDENTITY Independent international foundation with members,

or Loose Alliance? Trend setting (charter, benchmark) Global identity Global campaign about medicines price Need to be locally owned – country- led and built,

not donor(s)’ led Adhering to MeTA Principles: Charter

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Thank you! Richard Calland

International Secretariat, info@metasecretariat.org MeTA: www.MedicinesTransparency.org DFID: www.dfid.gov.uk