Impatient Optimists
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Albert Van Zyl

Title Manager of Research and Learning
Organization International Budget Partnership

Albert van Zyl is a public policy researcher and the Manager of Research and Learning at the International Budget Partnership.

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Citizen Budget Monitoring: Undercover Agents for Sustainable Budgets

November 16, 2011 / Rebekah Kendal, Albert Van Zyl

Critics often accuse civil society organizations (CSOs) of demanding that governments spend large amounts of money on unaffordable and unsustainable social programs.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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