"We at the centre of beneficiary accountability mainstreaming take this to mean how an aid agency engages with its ‘beneficiaries’and other stakeholders.This engagement aims at: Ensuring meaningful involvement and participation; Building relationships;Providing project information in a way that enhances transparency;Develop mechanisms for feedback handling and more so be accountable for the results in ways that enable learning and improvement towards the achievement of its mission. We constanly ask; How do our planning tools, reporting formats and information systems capture the quality of accountability to beneficiaries? Do they actively enable learning for programme improvement? We strongly believe that accountability leads to quality and learning and for these we commit ourselves". Beneficiary Accountability Team, Kabul, Afghanistan (Dec 2008).
I like your articles..but you know I am biased!!! but after joining an organisation that deals with emergency response, I think you owe some of us with very little knowledge on accountability some justice to have this page updated more often... Keep up the good work..
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