The Accountability Initiative

Friday, April 17th, 2009

The Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi has recently launched its new Accountability Initiative website. The website is designed as a comprehensive source on the state of accountability in India with information on civil society experiments, accountability tool kits, and relevant research and analytical work. The website also aims at ...

One World Trust on Accountability of Research Organisations

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

"The Accountability Principles of Research Organisations (APRO) report provides a framework for establishing accountability good practices and principles for policy-oriented research organisations working in developing countries. It discusses how One World Trust's core principles of accountability - participation, transparency, evaluation and complaints handling - can be applied to research. In ...

Producing Social Accountability? The Impact of Service Delivery Reforms

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Source: Joshi, A., 2008, 'Producing Social Accountability? The Impact of Service Delivery Reforms', IDS Bulletin, Volume 38, Number 6, pp. 10-17(8) Author: Institute of Development Studies , http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids Summary (from GSDRC website) Which types of state reform improve public services and citizen engagement? How can accountability mechanisms improve service delivery? This Institute of Development ...

Measuring Effectiveness – Participation, Empowerment and Downward Accountability

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Date: 25th-26th September Venue: Melbourne Greetings The annual Measuring Effectiveness conference is now only 6 weeks away. Online registrations are open on the website : https://www.worldvision.com.au/learn/conferences/me/Register.aspx The conference will be held on Thursday 25th and Friday 26th September, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. This year the conference is being held in partnership with The Australian ...

Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Date: 2-4 September 2008 Venue: Accra, Ghana, In September 2008, ministers from over 100 countries, heads of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, donor organizations, and civil society organizations from around the world will gather in Accra for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (2-4 September). Their common objective is to ...

3rd annual Measuring Effectiveness conference:’Participation, Empowerment and Downward Accountability’.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Greetings, The 3rd annual Measuring Effectiveness conference will be held in Melbourne, on Thursday 25th & Friday 26th September, 2008. We sincerely hope that you will again be inspired to attend this important event. This year sees World Vision Australia and The Australian National University partnering to bring you a conference ...

Monday Developments issue on NGO accountability

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

(via Niels Keijzer on the Pelikan email list) The December 2007 issue of Monday Developments, a monthly magazine published by InterAction (the largest coalition of NGOs in the United States), explores key accountability issues for NGOs. Through various angles, the issue looks into "(...) the conflicts organizations face with scarce resources, demanding missions and the ...

Evaluation Of Citizens’ Voice & Accountability – Review Of The Literature & Donor Approaches Report

Friday, June 1st, 2007

O’Neill, T., Foresti, M. and Hudson, A. (2007) Evaluation of Citizens’ Voice and Accountability: Review of the Literature and Donor Approaches. London: DFID. Excerpt 1.3 A core group of DAC partners are collaborating on a joint evaluation of development aid for strengthening citizens’ voice and the accountability of public institutions. The Overseas Development ...