Developing a culture of good governance and accountability in the state of Rajasthan, India through involving CSOs and building their capacity with a focus on improving public expenditure outcomes in NREGS

The project is an attempts to contribute towards developing a culture of good governance and accountability in the state of Rajasthan, India through involving civil society organizations and building their capacity with a focus on improving the public expenditure outcomes to begin with National Rural Employment Scheme and trying to institutionalize it, to be adopted for the assessing the various schemes. A network of people and rural social action groups, who are concerned about the lack of governance and accountability will be developed and trained after capacity gap analysis for using community score card. This network will keep the project goal alive through out the entire period through using CSC in NREGS in all part of the state and also by sharing and disseminating the findings at various levels in order to advocate with the government to buy the concept. Through regular Interaction with government, polity, media and other stakeholders an environment for social accountability mechanism will be built in the state. The presence of national level media and wider coverage by it will be an effective mode to communicate the masses. The regular interaction will be instrumental in strengthening rapport with relevant stakeholders inclusive of policy designers, to take forward a meaningful debate up on the agenda of developing the culture of governance.