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    Governance, Social Accountability and The Civil Society

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    Governance is improved when there is external accountability and social accountability initiatives are used. Recent initiatives include citizen report cards, public policy making, expenditure tracking, and involving citizens in oversight. These rely on civil society organizations to influence priorities, spending, and reforms through monitoring. Participatory budgeting and citizen report cards are common as they evaluate services and hold providers accountable. However, implementing social accountability comes with risks if civil society's role, abilities, laws, and accessible government are undervalued. The key is identifying ways to enable local change.

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    Governance, Social Accountability and The Civil Society

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    Governance is improved when there is external accountability and social accountability initiatives are used. Recent initiatives include citizen report cards, public policy making, expenditure tracking, and involving citizens in oversight. These rely on civil society organizations to influence priorities, spending, and reforms through monitoring. Participatory budgeting and citizen report cards are common as they evaluate services and hold providers accountable. However, implementing social accountability comes with risks if civil society's role, abilities, laws, and accessible government are undervalued. The key is identifying ways to enable local change.

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    Governance is improved when there is external accountability and social accountability initiatives are used. Recent initiatives include citizen report cards, public policy making, expenditure tracking, and involving citizens in oversight. These rely on civil society organizations to influence priorities, spending, and reforms through monitoring. Participatory budgeting and citizen report cards are common as they evaluate services and hold providers accountable. However, implementing social accountability comes with risks if civil society's role, abilities, laws, and accessible government are undervalued. The key is identifying ways to enable local change.

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    Governance, Social Accountability and The Civil Society

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    Governance is improved when there is external accountability and social accountability initiatives are used. Recent initiatives include citizen report cards, public policy making, expenditure tracking, and involving citizens in oversight. These rely on civil society organizations to influence priorities, spending, and reforms through monitoring. Participatory budgeting and citizen report cards are common as they evaluate services and hold providers accountable. However, implementing social accountability comes with risks if civil society's role, abilities, laws, and accessible government are undervalued. The key is identifying ways to enable local change.

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    Governance, Social Accountability and the Civil Society Abstract Empiric evidences show that countries whit better

    governance had outcomes higher than other countries with deficient management. Another researchs show that external accountability can lead to better governance. Resent social accountability initiatives include such as citizen report cards, participatory public policy making, public expenditure tracking, and efforts to improve the effectiveness of internal accountability mechanisms of the government, for example by involving citizens in public commissions and hearings and oversight committees. A key feature of recent practices is the increased reliance on civil society organizations (CSOs) through domestic imperatives or externally driven donor support to influence government priorities for spending and reform and monitoring public expenditures. A social accountability initiatives more used is Participatory Budget Processes in their different stages such Formulation, Analysis, Expenditure Tracking and Performance Monitoring. Also Citizen Reports Cards are very widespread because permit evaluate different service providers from a user perspective and thereby make the service providers more accountable to the citizens. The implementation of that initiatives of social engagement has some risks for entrepreneurs that basically are undervalue the importance of interest of civil society, ability of civil society organizations, legal and regulatory frameworks and an accessible government that foster the social engagement. The challenge is to identify the instruments and processes to enabling local drivers of change.

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