Jonathan Fox
@jonathanfox707
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Accountability headlines, bridging action and research. Professor & Director, Accountability Research Center, @AcctResearchCtr - RT not endorsement
American University in DC
Joined February 2013
Check out this new report, with Afro-Colombian community land council @ACADESAN. National laws & policies there recognize the right to >collective< protection measures for communities at risk, but delivering tangible commitments requires persistent advocacy #HumanRightsDefenders
In the face of unrelenting violence against rights defenders, most govt protection measures are limited, & individualized. New Working Paper shares lessons from grassroots advocacy work for collective protection in Colombia: (English summary coming soon)
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Check out findings from years of efforts by agrarian community leaders to engage with & improve government agricultural programs... #agroecology
New article: what are the tensions between efforts to scale up agroecological approaches, and large-scale government subsidies for chemical fertilizer for smallholders? @jonathanfox707 & Carlos García Jiménez discuss the case of Guerrero, Mexico
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Check out ARC's latest... with best wishes for 2025
New year newsletter from ARC - funding announcement, the final publications of 2025 on education and health accountability, and team and partner updates
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This multi-level monitoring and advocacy initiative of @ncenepal2018 and @actionaidnep in Nepal connects the dots between the national/international debt challenge and sector-specific issues & actors
Maintaining education financing under the constraints of public debt is a huge challenge. @ihcus7's new blog for @GPforEducation describes how civil society in Nepal is linking education budget monitoring to advocacy on tax justice & public debt relief.
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Muchas felicidades al Centro Baobab por su lanzamiento hoy en Cali/Congratulations for the launch in Cali of the Baobab Center for Innovation in Ethno-Racial, Gender and Environmental Justice @baobabinnova #COP16Colombia
#COP16ElTiempo | En la COP16, se inaugura el Centro Baobab en Cali para la innovación en justicia étnico-racial, género y ambiental. 🔽 El tiempo, la sucursal de la COP16
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Coming up Oct 28 - a great panel, plus ARC's first trilingual publication...
Haitian farmers fought for #accountability and remedy for land lost to industrial development - learn from community leaders & experts, Washington College of Law, Oct 28 RSVP
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RT @KrocInstitute: Join us Tuesday, Sept. 17, for the launch of our third special report on the implementation of the Colombian Final Accor…
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@RogueChieftan @SciHistoryOrg Congratulations on this brilliant story - plus such a great title!
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@RogueChieftan @PublicBooks @lithub I always appreciate the opportunity to learn from your insights. The implicit contrast between the concepts of public thinker and public intellectual is so productive. The 'thinking out loud' part sounds like one key difference.
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Thanks to @africafoicentre for your #AccountabilityKeyword blog exploring how ideas about accountability are communicated (or not) in the many languages of Uganda...
New Accountability Keywords blog from @GilbertSendugwa & colleagues from @africafoicentre explores how accountability work plays out against the background of Uganda's cultural and linguistic diversity
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While anti-corruption strategists meet this week at #IACC, I look forward to hearing more about how Northern aid agencies can put discourse about locally-led development into practice
#IACC2024 highlights the "Tech Revolution" in anti-corruption. But how are intl dev agencies making info about their activities user-centered & accessible? See our stocktake of USAID's localization commitments through an opengov lens:
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This grassroots Afro-Colombian #humanrightsdefender advocacy campaign won a comprehensive set of government commitments to strengthen @ACADESAN’s capacity for collective protection #HRD
New Accountability Note: Collective Protection for Communities & Rights Defenders. Read (in English) the story of @ACADESAN's breakthrough advocacy campaign for #collectiveprotection of communities & #HRDs facing violence Colombia's Pacific region
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