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The ATCnet Accountability Project A letter to UNDP Administrator Malloch-Brown proposing to assist in implementing transparency and accountability
Contact: info@atcnet.org profitinafrica@aol.com Dear Mr. Maloch-Brown ATCnet would like to recommend to UNDP a radical new approach to accountability and transparency in development. The ATCnet accountability project offers a way for organizations with a responsibility for resource use and accountability to have cost effective, objective and independent feedback on the benefits derived from development resource use. With the ATCnet project, for the first time public stakeholders are brought into the process in a meaningful way. The ATCnet project has been developed drawing on many years of experience in all aspects of the development project cycle. The project combines what is best from the “good old days” with the best of modern technology and the realities of present day economics. Thus there is a convergence of old fashioned manual accounting and audit methodology with the latest of Internet and relational database technology. The ATCnet project delivers real time review and feedback on a global basis at an economic cost. The ATCnet program can be implemented in various ways: As a service to an organization such as UNDP so that the organization has improved flows of information needed for management. As a service to governments that need to have independent and credible assessment of the progress being made on policy reform and regulatory practices, and the credibility of the accounting and financial performance of government and the public sector. As a service to NGOs that need to demonstrate that funds that are in their trust are used in an effective manner As a service to the public as a key stakeholder in global socioeconomic progress so that they have easy access to reliable information about resource use, development performance and accountability. With this ATCnet initiative, excellence in development will be recognized using just the same criteria that identifies problems in development. This project goes way beyond the idea that it is enough for money to be accounted for with supporting vouchers and signatures all in order and procedures correctly followed. The ATCnet methodology addresses the simple fundamental issue of whether or not a reasonable result was achieved from the allocation and use of scarce development resources. The questions that arise are equally simple. If not, why not? What and who are responsible? The ATCnet group welcomes the opportunity to do something of value in the development environment. Please let us know how UNDP might want to pursue this matter further With regards Peter Burgess

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