Author(s)
Roche, ChrisEditor(s)
Eade, DeborahPublication date
2009-11-01Keywords
Development methods
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Development in PracticeDocument type
Journal articleLanguage
EnglishDescription
Oxfam's experience suggests that 'bottom-up' accountability can be an important mechanism whereby men and women living in poverty can hold others to account. The first section of this article illustrates this with two examples of Oxfam experience in Vietnam and Sri Lanka. The second section draws out some of the lessons from these examples and attempts to situate them within the broader debate about approaches to accountability. In the third section some suggestions are put forward about what would need to change if active citizenship and 'speaking truth to power' were to become the renewed focus of accountability.Pages
14ISSN
0961-4524EISSN
1364-9213ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/09614520903220818