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The budget Tracking Tool enables you to view projects funded by CDF and LATF. The tool can also be accessed by SMS by sending a text message to 3002. e.g. constituency#project (westlands#water).
Sample image SODNET launched the Open Budget Index (OBI) Report in February of 2009 in Nairobi inviting participants from Uganda, Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya. The Index is a measure of the level of accessibility of the budget to the citizen.

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Secretary Hillary urges use of new technology in enforcing accountability at "Townterview"

Secretary Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State held a “townterview” hosted by Fareed Zakaria from CNN and Beatrice Marshall from KTN at the University of Nairobi in her just concluded visit to Kenya. The secretary of state amongst other responses to question from the public, urged young people to use new technologies such as facebook and twitter, or other imaginative means of “shedding light” to corruption and bad governance. See full transcript below.

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Info Activism dialogue concluded

Tactical Tech and New Tactics yesterday concluded an insightful and enriching week-long online dialogue on Info-Activism: Turning Information into Action. The online dialogue offered a space for sharing of innovative ways in which information has been transformed into action in advocacy campaigns addressing human rights and development issues.
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Beyond confrontational democracies: Candid discussion with CDF Board.

SODNET this week met with a representative from the Constituency Funds Board in an informal dialogue on possible areas of synergies based its experience and interaction over the last one-and-a-half-years. The following were key points that arising from the discussions:
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Strengthening Social Movements through ICTs:

FAHAMU and the Infonet Programme today concertized discussions on ways to strengthen the work of social movements, their campaigns and creative engagement around monitoring of African States commitment to various charters and protocols.
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Maina in a recent Futa Magendo exchange workshop

Leaders split over squatters' land

Daily Nation, June 30, 2009: Follow-up story on accountability work by FUTA MAGENDO ACTIVIST IN NYERI

MPs Decline to take part in endorsing of plot allocation

A controversy surrounding land that government bought for Sh. 1.2 billion to settle some 3,000 squatters in Nyeri has divided local leaders. Three MPs allegedly rejected a request by their colleague to call a press conference to sanction the manner in which plots at the 15,000 acre land at Solio were allocated.

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SODNET is an indigenous organisation, established by Non-governmental Organization (NGOs) workers from Kenya as a facility for reflection and action by local groups on causes and consequences of poverty and disempowerment of communities. It aims at facilitating effective strategic alliances among interested people’s and social movements to influence policy-on issues of social development, in particular on resource management, globalisation and information.

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