Authors:Peter Newell, Joanna Wheeler,
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: rights, accountability, responsibility, citizenship, claiming, resources, politics
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-08-07
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1842775553
ISBN-13: 9781842775554

In the context of much controversy, this book looks at a range of exciting and imaginative ways in which poor and marginalized groups from around the world claim their rights and demand accountability for the realisation of those rights. Groups mobilizing around the right to water, housing or for fair working conditions often find themselves aligned against powerful state and corporate interests. Experiences from the global North and South are combined to generate key insights into who mobilizes and how and when this makes a difference to the lives of the poor.

Author: Humanitarian Accountability Partnership
Publisher: Oxfam Publishing
Keywords: quality, management, accountability, humanitarian, hap, standard, guide
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2008-05
List price: $20.75
ISBN-10: 085598600X
ISBN-13: 9780855986001

The HAP Standard is the first certifiable standard to be developed which measures humanitarian accountability and quality management. This official Standard has been developed by the sector, for the sector, and enables the creation of a management system to implement relevant practices, codes, humanitarian principles, and internal missions.This guide and its accompanying CD-ROM will provide managers working in development with everything they need to know about the Standard, the certification process, and implementing the Standard. Practical and accessible, the guide will help ensure that achi

Authors:Anwar Shah, Anwar Shah,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: accountability, sector, governance, public, corruption, combating, performance
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-05-31
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0821369415
ISBN-13: 9780821369418

This volume provides an analytical framework and operational approaches needed for the implementation of results-based accountability. The volume makes a major contribution to the literature on public management and evaluation. Major subject areas covered in this book include: performance based accountability, e-government, legal and institutional framework to hold government to account; fighting corruption; external accountability and the role of supreme audit institutions on detecting fraud and corruption.

Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: accountability, governance, sector, public, series, management, fiscal
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821361422
ISBN-13: 9780821361429

Accountability of government to citizens¡Vthe idea that the public sector must answer to the people for its performance¡Vis the foundation for good governance. Under good governance, public expenditures are allocated to maximize welfare, revenues are collected efficiently, and the public at large has access to a number of public services including water and sanitation, infrastructure, education and health. Unfortunately in many developing countries, the people suffer the results of dysfunctional governance systems that fail to provide even minimal levels of vital public services. This happen

Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: public, governance, accountability, sector, series, services, delivery
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 2005-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821361406
ISBN-13: 9780821361405

The globalization of information¡Xsatellite TV, internet, phone and fax¡Xserve to enhance citizens¡¦ awareness of their rights, obligations, options and alternatives and strengthens demands for greater accountability from the public sector. However, the power of accountability is significantly reduced if citizens are unable to measure their government¡¦s performance in a meaningful way, which is precisely the topic of this timely book. The abstract concept of ¡§government performance¡¨ can only be an effective tool in public debate when there are concrete statistics measuring perform

Author: Arthur Pink
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Keywords: god, accountability
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1999-07-12
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0802465722
ISBN-13: 9780802465726

To appreciate the amazing grace of God we must understand all that we have been forgiven. Bible scholar Arthur Pink helps us see our true condition, driving home the truth of the Gospel. Readers will develop a more personal appreciation for God’s grace and a deeper reverence for His boundless love.

Author: Robert D. Beh
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: accountability, democratic, rethinking
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0815708629
ISBN-13: 9780815708629

Traditionally, American government has created detailed, formal procedures to ensure that its agencies and employees are accountable for finances and fairness. Now in the interest of improved performance, we are asking our front-line workers to be more responsive, we are urging our middle managers to be innovative, and we are exhorting our public executives to be entrepreneurial. Yet what is the theory of democratic accountability that empowers public employees to exercise such discretion while still ensuring that we remain a government of laws? How can government be responsive to the needs of