TAP will be holding the inaugural book launch for its most recent book, “From the Ground Up”, on June 22 in London.

Speakers will include Paraguayan investigator Cynthia Brizuela Speratti of CADEP, one of the 19 organizations documented in the book, as well as co-authors Dr. Stephen Kosack and Courtney Tolmie. "From the Ground Up,’’ highlights several examples of local groups making an impact, including a Guatemala organization that persuaded the government to change the school calendar so that students would not sit for months without books and supplies; a Ghana organization that identified reasons behind high teacher absenteeism on Fridays and then started work with the government to correct the problem; and a Paraguay group that documented a troubling lack of transparency among public school budgets and effectively made the case that parent organizations were the only independent group capable of being an outside monitor of the funds

WHO:
Moderator:
Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy and Development, London School of Economics

Panel Discussion
Courtney Tolmie, a co-author of the report and a senior program officer at Results for Development (R4D). Tolmie leads R4D’s Transparency and Accountability Project.

Dr. Stephen Kosack, a co-author of the report and a Lecturer in Development Management at the London School of Economics.

Cynthia Brizuela Speratti, a former investigator at the Centro de Analisis y Difusion de la Economia Paraguaya (CADEP), which conducted one of the investigations featured in the book.

WHERE: The Connaught House at London School of Economics, Room H101. A reception will follow at 5:30-7:00 in the Economist Bookstore.

WHEN: Thursday, June 22nd, 2010, 4 p.m.

WHAT: A panel discussion followed by a reception.