Wednesday, April 20, 2011

[RED DEMOCRATICA] How to Produce Governance Accountability?

 

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The once encouraging ‘governance turn‘ in development thinking emphasized the need for building formal and informal democratic institutions to supplement and consolidate more technocratic reforms such as strengthening treasuries or training auditors. As it turns out, the manufacturing of governance accountability is harder than most people thought.

Reporting on the findings of their impressive 10 year, 150 case study Citizenship DRC project, the IDS distinguishes three models for encouraging citizen-led accountability. We discuss these three models below.

The huge contribution of the IDS project is to give us more and more detailed descriptions of how citizens sometimes succeed in holding governments to account. However, the analysis and interpretation of these descriptions still have a long way to go.

There are few hard and fast rules for sparking and supporting the sort of democratic eruptions seen in the MENA region recently. In any given country, knowledge  of context still plays a more important role than any recipe for producing accountability. And anyone wishing to support the emergence of greater accountability will more than likely end up with some mixture of all three the models that the IDS discusses.

Considering the tiny portion of development aid that is spent on building governance and accountability, it can also be argued that the development community is yet to make a serious effort at testing any of the models for igniting and sustaining governance accountability. Click here to Read more…

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