This topic sheet shows how Helvetas focuses its interventions on strengthening the direct accountability relationship between citizens and states, in order to improve access to and provision of public services.
This paper addresses a double democratic challenge: to strengthen formal and legal mechanisms that allow citizens to articulate and voice their policy concerns, and to encourage elected and non-elected representatives to effectively respond to the provision of public services.
The practice on social accountability reveals a number of critical lessons for urban governance reforms, particularly with a bottom-up approach. Lessons from these experiences have enormous potential to pursue changes in the related policies and practices.
This report first summarises recommendations about potential strategic partners for SDC before providing summaries of the main actors in digitalisation and governance (mapping).
This is the first chapter of a UNDP report on social accountability in the Arab world.
This paper is an attempt at gathering the learnings of the “Deepening Local Democratic Governance through Social Accountability in Asia” initiative that was implemented from 2011 to 2013 by PRIA in close collaboration with two partners, PRIP Trust in Bangladesh and SILAKA in Cambodia.