Part I - KEY QUESTIONS AND CONCEPTS IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL DEBATE * Rights and Responsibilities in the Political Landscape of NGO Accountability: Introduction and Overview * Accountability of Non-Governmental Organizations in Global Governance * Civil Society, Representation and Accountability: Restating Current Debates on the Representativeness and accountability of Civic Associations * Part II - TRADITIONAL APPROACHES: LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY, CERTIFICATION AND DONOR REGIMES * The Limits and Risks of Regulation: The Case of the World Bank-supported * Issues in Legislation for NGOs in Uganda * NGO Accountability and the Philippine Council for NGO Certification: Evolving Roles and Issues * The Donor Accountability Agenda * Part III - THE BENEFITS OF EMBRACING ACCOUNTABILITY * NGO Governance in China: Achievements and Dilemmas * NGO Governance and Accountability in Indonesia: Challenges in a Newly Democratizing Country * Part IV - INNOVATIONS: EXPANDING THE ACCOUNTABILITY FRONTIER * Chameleons and Accountability: Linking Learning with Increasing Accountability in ActionAid International Uganda and the Ugandan Land Alliance * NGO Accountability and the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership: Towards a Transformative Agenda * Addressing Accountability at the Global Level: The Challenges Facing International NGOs * On Trying to Do Good Well: Practicing Participatory Democracy through International Advocacy Campaigns *
Lisa Jordan is Deputy Director of the Governance and Civil Society Unit of the Ford Foundation, USA. Peter van Tuijl has over twenty years of experience working on NGO capacity building, governance and accountability issues. He has been employed by Novib (now Oxfam Netherlands) and UNDP. He is based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and currently works as a Senior Technical Advisor on a project to combat corruption in the Indonesian National Police, supported by the U.S. Department of Justice
'Credible and effective accountability is quite simply a
pre-condition for NGOs' continued historical significance as global
and local agents of change. Prepared by informed and yet critical
insiders, this book faces this reality unflinchingly whilst
illuminating its real-life complexities and implications in today's
daunting political context.'
Simon Zadek, Chief Executive, AccountAbility, and author of The
Civil Corporation
'This collection breaks out of the straitjacketed thinking that
characterizes much of the accountability discussion today. Rather
than treating NGO accountability as a technocratic endeavour based
in managerial best practice, the authors confront its political and
power-laden underpinnings head-on. Jordan and van Tuijl show us the
dark side of accountability politics - how its language and
mechanisms can be abused for suppressing basic rights of voice and
political participation. Yet, they also give us a vision, grounded
in field-based innovation, of what accountability can be: a pathway
towards universal human rights and better democratic
governance.'
Alnoor Ebrahim, Visiting Associate Professor, Hauser Center for
Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University, and Wyss Visiting
Scholar, Harvard Business School
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