ANSA-EAP Information

The Affiliated Network for Social Accountability–EAP Foundation, Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit corporation registered under Philippine law. It is housed in the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), a unit of the Ateneo de Manila University. ANSA–EAP was set up in July 2007 as a program of the ASoG, with funding from the World Bank’s Development Grant Facility (2007–2011), and incorporated in March 2011 with five founding trustees from the EAP region. ANSA–EAP’s core purpose is “to help improve governance” using SAc approaches and processes. At its most basic, governance is defined as a decision-making process where decisions are turned into results. For ANSA–EAP, improving governance is a way of decision-making and implementation that aims to achieve desirable and beneficial results for both those who govern and are being governed. There are two key actors in achieving these desirable and beneficial results: the government, on the one hand, and the citizens, on the other. While the dynamics between governments and citizens are multiple and varied (i.e. from virulent anti-corruption to passive co-optation), ANSA–EAP focuses on constructive engagement between government and citizens and gives emphasis on citizen participation in decision-making processes. Thus, the core message that ANSA–EAP brings is social accountability—defined as the constructive engagement between citizens and government in monitoring government’s use of public resources to improve service delivery, protect rights, and promote community welfare.