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Mutual accountability mechanisms: Accountability, voice, and responsiveness
November 2006
Capacity Development Group - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
This note makes the case that strengthening accountability is a critical CD strategy. The capacity of any system requires appropriate feedback loops to self-regulate, adapt and effectively achieve its objectives. This applies to living organisms and people, to organizations and to societies.
In any given society there are a multitude of accountability relations and thus also a wide range of entry points for accountability as CD strategy. This implies further unbundling how accountability mechanisms actually work as well as identifying in more operational ways what can be pursued as promising strategies and instruments. Any accountability mechanism will combine a variety of functions which include the following eight:
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Establishing reliable, legitimate and pro-poor “rules of the game”
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Increasing transparency, access to information and awareness
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Establishing facts, broaden evidence and increase objectivity
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Mandating and maintaining regular monitoring and control
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Improving access of poor to recourse and arbitration
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Moving accountability loops closer to the people
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Strengthening meaningful participation in political process
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Strengthening voice and ability to articulate
Keywords: accountability mechanisms, responsiveness
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