Social Accountability: Conceptual
Social accountability refers to community based initiatives that monitor the management of the public resources to ensure that the duty bearers deliver the required services. This section contains literature on social accountability as a concept and the various debates in this context. For example
For More LiteratureSeven challenges for accountability 2.0
The Role of Legislation for Social Accountability: A Comparison of South Africa and Zambia
Assessing-the-Evidence–The-Effectiveness-and-Impact-of-Public-Governance-Oriented-Multi-Stakeholder-Initiatives
Connecting the Dots for Accountability Workshop Report and Repeat
Accountability-Institutions-and-Accountability-Ecosystems–From-Evidence-to-Practice
Social accountability or social transformation Social accountability and the Social Construction of you Social-accountability-and-accreditation-a-new-frontier-for-educational-institutions
Strengthenin Accountability Ecosystems Discussion Paper
subjective experiences of transition
Accountability Institutions and Accountability Ecosystems
Functionality and SA
Social-Accountability-What-Does-Evidence-Really-Say-GPSA-Working-Paper-1
Public Finance and Budget
Monitoring and analyzing the budget as well as the use of public finances is necessary to ensure that the public resources are spend accordingly. This section contains literature related to budget and expenditure management.
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Treasury-on-2015-Open-Budget-Index-survey
OBS-2015-Fact-Sheet
Education-Budget-Monitoring
Open-Budget-Survey-2015_Country-Summary12_Low-salaries-the-culture-of-per-diems-and-corruption
Open-Budget-Survey-2015-Global-Report
Open-Budget-Survey-2015-Country-Ranking
Division of revenue amendment Bill 2016 (South Africa)
Service Delivery
Lack of quality service delivery is one of the greatest motivators of social accountability. Civil Society are formed through out the world to address issues related to service delivery. This section contains material that explores the various interventions related to service delivery.
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OBS-2015-Fact-Sheet
Education-Budget-Monitoring
Open-Budget-Survey-2015_Country-Summary
12_Low-salaries-the-culture-of-per-diems-and-corruption
Open-Budget-Survey-2015-Global-Report
Open-Budget-Survey-2015-Country-Ranking
Social-accountability-in-public-sector
Social-Accountability-in-Cambodia
Summary–The-Public-Service-Accountability-Monitor-and-the-Health-Sector
Social accountability_Health and education system
Outcome 8 Human Settlements MTSF Chapter
Socially accountable educators
Sa and transformation in Medical education
Prohibition on disturbing natural forest
Citizen Engagement
Public participation is an important part of social accountability. The sector itself emphasized the need to engage community member and mobilise them to engage the govern to demand required services. This section contains material related to public participation.
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The impact of social justice activism and community development by Lindokuhle Vellem
People-Powered Media Innovation in West Africa: Accelerating development & good governance in the new media landscape
Voice or chatter? Making ICTs work for transformative engagement. Report by Gurumurthy, Bharthur & Chami (Making all Voices Count)
Facilitating-Social-Change
Engaging Citizens in Auditing Work: The Experience of the Superior Audit Office in Mexico
Civil-Society-Empowerment-in-Anti-corruption
2012-CSO-sustainability-index–subsaharan-africa
2011 – CSO-sustainability-index–subsaharan-africa
Learning in Social Accountability
Learning is integral to social accountability. There is a need and emphasis to learn from interventions, to adopt and change according to the knowledge learnt. This section focuses on the monitoring, evaluation and learning that occurs within the social accountability sector.
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Try, Learn, Adapt
11-04-Wenger_Trayner_DeLaat_Value_creation
2013_UNDP_Reflections-on-Social-Accountability_EN
PSAM-SDC-External-Evaluation-Final-Report
Report on Social Accountability Conference
Social-Learning-Report
Reflections-on-Social-Accountability
NGO_Advocacy organisational learning and accountability