Accountibility
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This document discusses accountability and outlines five types: judicial, quasi-judicial, political, administrative, and public. It also asks how to promote a culture of accountability at the community-based organization level.
Accountibility
- 2. Accountability refers to the ability to call public officials, private employers or service providers to account, requiring that they be answerable for their policies, actions and use of funds. (World Bank)
- 3. Judicial (Judicial review of executive acts and omissions) Quasi-judicial (ombudsmen, international human rights treaty bodies) Political (parliamentary processes, elections) Administrative (internal accountability mechanisms) Public (by citizen actions)
- 4. How you can promote a culture of accountability at CBO level?
Editor's Notes
- Principles and Guidelines for Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies-UNHCR Aquasi-judicial bodyis an entity such as an arbitrator ortribunalboard, generally of a public administrative agency, which has powers and procedures resembling those of acourt of laworjudge, and which is obligated to objectively determine facts and draw conclusions from them so as to provide the basis of an official action.