In 2023, ARC is coordinating an action learning project under its role as global learning partner for Education Out Loud (EOL), part of the Global Partnership on Education (GPE). We'll be working to generate evidence of the role of civil society in advocating for equitable, inclusive, and properly-resourced national education policy, and holding governments accountable for its implementation. We are also supporting the exchange of experience and knowledge between civil society actors, creating space for them to reflect on their own strategies. Visit the education accountability work page to find out more about this and ARC's other education work.

We're also starting to prepare a new action learning initiative that aims to strengthen frontline health rights advocates working on equitable access to reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent care. This builds on our existing work on with frontline health rights defenders, and will support activities in Guatemala, Mexico, and the Philippines.

Our researching accountability in Bangladesh activities currently include a new study under the Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme (CLEAR). The Feedback State asks whether the Bangladeshi state succeeded in listening and responding to its citizens’ needs for health care and social protection during the pandemic, and what it learned that will help it govern future crises. 

Publications coming soon include working papers on multi-level monitoring and advocacy in the health sector, and movement-building to support corporate accountability and workers' rights in the apparel industry; and a research brief on the accountability implications of cost of living protests in 2022.