Social Accountability in Ethiopia: Establishing Collaborative Relationships between Citizens and the State

Social Accountability in Ethiopia: Establishing Collaborative Relationships between Citizens and the State
Author: Dr. Samuel Taddesse
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2017-12-20
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1483477568

Social Accountability in Ethiopia is a comprehensive guidebook with numerous examples on the use of social accountability-a process by which citizens, communities, policymakers, and government officials are engaged in constructive dialogue about justifications for policies and actions, among other elements. It offers detailed and thorough discussion of how social accountability tools are used to objectively assess government service delivery performance and the mechanisms used for addressing service delivery deficits in constructive and collaborative processes between citizens and government actors. It also discusses how the social accountability practice can be sustained, regularized and mainstreamed in government service delivery decisions. It also enables citizens to voice their needs and concerns and work collaboratively to enhance the access, quality, and equity of the public services they use.

Improving Basic Services for the Bottom Forty Percent

Improving Basic Services for the Bottom Forty Percent
Author: Qaiser M Khan
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464803315

Ethiopia’s model for delivering basic services appears to be succeeding and to confirm that services improve when service providers are more accountable to citizens. The approach chosen in Ethiopia is pro-poor with the bottom 40 percent benefiting relatively more. The approach is also reducing other disparities including gender and historic.

Opening the Black Box

Opening the Black Box
Author: Helene Grandvoinnet
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2015-04-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1464804826

Opening the Black Box: Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability fills an important knowledge gap by providing guidance on how to assess contextual drivers of social accountability effectiveness. This publication aims to more strategically support citizen engagement at the country level and for a specific issue or problem. The report proposes a novel framing of social accountability as the interplay of constitutive elements: citizen action and state action, supported by three enabling levers: civic mobilization, interface and information. For each of these constitutive elements, the report identifies 'drivers' of contextual effectiveness which take into account a broad range of contextual factors (e.g., social, political and intervention-based, including information and communication technologies). Opening the Black Box offers detailed guidance on how to assess each driver. It also applies the framework at two levels. At the country level, the report looks at 'archetypes' of challenging country contexts, such as regimes with no formal space or full support for citizen-state engagement and fragile and conflict-affected situations. The report also illustrates the use of the framework to analyze specific social accountability interventions through four case studies: Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Yemen, and the Kyrgyz Republic.

Demanding Good Governance

Demanding Good Governance
Author: Mary McNeil
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2010-06-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821383833

Accountability is the cornerstone of good governance. Unless public officials can be held to account, then critical benefits associated with good governance, such as social justice, poverty reduction and development remain elusive. The impacts of non-responsive and unaccountable governance are perhaps most harshly felt by the citizens of Africa, where corruption and governance failures are broadly acknowledged as a principal obstacle to the achievement Over the past decade, a range of social accountability practices such as participatory budgeting, independent budget analysis, participatory monitoring of public expenditure and citizen evaluation of public services have been experimented with in many Africa countries. Their outcomes and lessons have, thus far, received little attend and documentation. This volume aims to make a contribution towards filling this gap by describing and analyzing a selection of social accountability initiatives from seven Sub-Saharan countries.

Decentralization and Popular Democracy

Decentralization and Popular Democracy
Author: Jean-Paul Faguet
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2012-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472118196

Faguet identifies the factors that determine the outcomes of national decentralization on the local level

Community Score Card

Community Score Card
Author: United States. Federal Council of Citizenship Training
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1924
Genre: Citizenship
ISBN:

Allies or Adversaries

Allies or Adversaries
Author: Jennifer N. Brass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-08-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316721051

Governments throughout the developing world have witnessed a proliferation of non-governmental, non-profit organizations (NGOs) providing services like education, healthcare and piped drinking water in their territory. In Allies or Adversaries, Jennifer N. Brass explains how these NGOs have changed the nature of service provision, governance, and state development in the early twenty-first century. Analyzing original surveys alongside interviews with public officials, NGOs and citizens, Brass traces street-level government-NGO and state-society relations in rural, town and city settings of Kenya. She examines several case studies of NGOs within Africa in order to demonstrate how the boundary between purely state and non-state actors blurs, resulting in a very slow turn toward more accountable and democratic public service administration. Ideal for scholars, international development practitioners, and students interested in global or international affairs, this detailed analysis provides rich data about NGO-government and citizen-state interactions in an accessible and original manner.

Public Administration in Ethiopia

Public Administration in Ethiopia
Author: Bacha Kebede Debela
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 703
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 946270256X

Building an effective, inclusive, and accountable public administration has become a major point of attention for policymakers and academics in Ethiopia who want to realise sustainable development. This first handbook on Ethiopian Public Administration is written by Ethiopian academics and practitioner-academics and builds on PhD studies and conference papers, including studies presented at the meetings of the Ethiopian Public Administration Association (EPAA), established in 2016. Public Administration in Ethiopia presents a wide range of timely issues in four thematic parts: Governance, Human Resources, Performance and Quality, and Governance of Policies. Each of the individual chapters in this volume contributes in a different way to the overarching research questions: How can we describe and explain the contexts, the processes and the results of the post-1990 politico-administrative reforms in Ethiopia? And what are the implications for sustainable development? This book is essential for students, practitioners, and theorists interested in public administration, public policy, and sustainable development. Moreover, the volume is a valuable stepping stone for PA teaching and PA research in Ethiopia.