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The mission of EGP is to democratise economic decision-making processes and resource management through sustained citizen engagement, to achieve sustainable socio-economic justice in Africa.
Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme (EGP) aims to put the politics back into economics - to address the current democratic deficit in the way that decisions are made about economic policy, broadly defined as the allocation and distribution of scarce resources, and access to, and regulation of, markets.
The EGP will contribute to the current search for fresh approaches to the development challenge through the approach of participatory democracy, based on the principles of peoples’ right to know, access to information and transparency law, and a rights-based approach to budget processes.
Idasa's EGP works in main four areas:
1) The budget process –building capacity in the state and civil society, lobbying for transparent processes, and analysing the socio-economic outcomes of budget choices, especially in relation to education, women and children.
2) Economic policy-making – building economic policy literacy in civil society and convening multi-stakeholder processes aimed at creating a fresh democratic development model for Africa based on the realisation of socio-economic rights.
3) Trade and aid – many of the most prominent interventions on trade and aid come from the North. The programme supplements those efforts with high-quality input and partnerships from the South.
4) Non-state actors – international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, and large corporations, have a huge impact both on the policy-making environment and on sustainable development.