Oxfam Australia's experience of 'bottom-up' accountability

Author(s)
Roche, Chris
Editor(s)
Eade, Deborah
Publication date
2009-11-01
Subject
Approach and methodology
Gender
Keywords
Development methods
Country
Viet Nam
Sri Lanka

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Routledge
Journal
Development in Practice
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/131051
DOI
10.1080/09614520903220818
Document type
Journal article
Language
English
Description
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
14
ISSN
0961-4524
EISSN
1364-9213
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