Governance Governance Assessments and Assessments and

SSocial ocial AcAccountabilitycountability

Angelita Gregorio-MedelANSA-EAP

October 2011, Oslo

Governance Assessment tools Governance Assessment tools applied in participatory applied in participatory

approaches approaches

Needs Assessment

Mobilization

Negotiation

Monitoring

Examining governance assessment tools

•All of the tools build social accountability by the practice of active participation.

•Governance assessment tools make for more informed citizen action

•More effective when stakeholders engage each other constructively (sustained dialogues and creative problem solving)

Creating meaningful citizen participation

through SAc• Social accountability (SAc) is constructive

engagement x citizen monitoring

Tools for governance Tools for governance assessment assessment andand SAcSAc

• Citizen report cards• Citizen charters• Integrity pacts• Community-based monitoring• Procurement monitoring• Information-Communication-

Technology

Checkmyschool.org Checkmyschool.org Communities Communities

+ + ICTICT

• Online platform to enhance transparency and access

• Community mobilization to validate info

Lessons in SAc Lessons in SAc PracticePractice

• constructive engagement helps citizens to access information and vice-versa.

• community monitoring and evaluation is more effective if it is done by organized & capable citizen groups

community monitoring community monitoring and assessment and assessment

initiativesinitiativeso Make for a more compelling and credible

advocacy based on evidenceo Provide grounded and sharper analysiso Link claimed accomplishments to outcomes

and results o Clarify messages to targeted publics o Help set up clear and simple engagement

protocols: linking with the media and formal process to hold government to account

o Mobilizes more participants