Movements, Power and Accountability Panel Discussion
Panel discussion on Movements, Power and Accountability: s Organizing Perspectives from Asia, Africa and Latin America. On November 2, 2018,…
Theme: Transparency & Open Government
How Do World Bank Projects Commit to Citizen Engagement?
The World Bank provides one of the world’s largest sources of international development funding, in 2019 committing US$62.3bn in loans,…
How Do World Bank Staff Perceive the Institutional Environment for Building Citizen Engagement into Projects?
How do World Bank staff perceive institutional opportunities and bottlenecks for undertaking citizen engagement (CE) as part of projects? The…
Picturing Accountability: What We Learned from the Photography of the Rana Plaza Disaster
Visual evidence can be a powerful part of strategies for pursuing accountability and social justice, and with the means of…
Social Audits in Service Delivery: An Annotated Bibliography
This annotated bibliography identifies sources on how social audits work and their main benefits. It prioritizes empirical evidence over theoretical…
The Women of Caltongo Who Opened the Government’s Doors: Social Accountability at the Edge of Mexico City
The government’s plans to repair a central avenue in the Mexico City neighborhood of Caltongo brought together a group of…
How Do Donor-led Empowerment and Accountability Activities Take Scale into Account? Evidence from DFID Programmes in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict and Violence
This paper explores the strategies of six recent DFID-funded programmes in Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan with empowerment and accountability aims.…
Grievance Redress Mechanisms in the Public Sector: A Literature Review
Grievance redress mechanisms (GRMs) in the public sector are institutionalized processes designed to enable people to complain about and seek…
Bottom-up Accountability in Uganda: Learning from People-centered, Multi-level Health Advocacy Campaigns
Uganda’s laws, policies and health sector strategies codify openings for in planning and monitoring government services, yet these spaces are…
in Auditing in Latin America: The Future Agenda
This document highlights that the challenges of the 21st century require public institutions to collaborate with other stakeholders, focus on…