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  Pathways to accountability: the GAP framework

  One World Trust, 2005

  The framework presented in this paper provides a baseline for what is important if organisations are to improve their accountability to stakeholders. It can be used by organisations internally, to increase their accountability, and by stakeholder groups to advocate for accountability reform of organisations that affect them.
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  Mechanisms for NGO accountability

  Global Public Policy Institute, 2005

  This paper discusses the costs and benefits of ensuring NGO accountability, particularly with the current practice that emphasises upward and external accountability to donors . The paper suggests that the NGOs and the academic community develop mechanisms that ensure NGO accountability to multiple stakeholders.
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  Women in Afghanistan: challenges and opportunities for women’s organizations in Afghan civil society

  ActionAid International, 2005

  This issues report offers a brief overview of some of the key challenges and concerns faced by women’s NGOs within Afghan civil society as women’s rights and opportunities are pursued in the context of national reconstruction and development.
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  Civil society in Vietnam: moving from the margins to the mainstream

  CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2005

  This paper presents an overview of civil society in Vietnam, and sets out the need to develop a common shared approach and strategy for engagement with civil society in Vietnam.Main characteristics of Civil Society in Vietnam are: the broad based political organisation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) combined with the tradition of a one party state until recently allowed for lit
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  The role of NGO self-regulation in increasing stakeholder accountability

  One World Trust, 2005

  This paper examines the use of voluntary codes of conduct and certification schemes as a way of strengthening NGO accountability.
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  The financial relationship between NGOs and the European Commission

  European Citizen Action Service, 2004

  This article reviews financial relations of NGOs with the European Commission, particularly focusing on the problems of smaller NGOs in accessing European funding. Over the years Commission has an important source of finance for NGOs. Yet, there are signs that the the relationship will be looser than in the past and the funds available to the NGO sector curtailed.
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  When social movements bypass the poor: asbestos pollution, international litigation and Griqua cultural identity

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper examines citizen mobilisation and activism in relation to asbestos disease and litigation in South Africa. In order to do so the paper follows the litigation case of Cape plc, a British company mining asbestos in South Africa, which lead the company to pay compensation to 7,500 former employees with asbestos-related diseases.
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  Children’s feedback committees in Zimbabwe: an experiment in humanitarian accountability

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This publication chronicles the attempt by Save the Children (UK) to set up an accountability project, related to the agency’s food aid intervention in Zimbabwe, that would address some of the issues of aid worker accountability.
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  Media and Communication Strategies: awareness-raising and development education for North-South solidarity

  Forum on Europe's International Cooperation, 2005

  The paper examines how raising-awareness campaigns, formal education and media coverage can improve the general level of knowledge on development issues. It points out that development education is a double edged sword.
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  Global in the local: what MPs can do to promote understanding of international development issues in their constituencies

  Development Education Association, 2005

  This paper provides Members of the British Parliament (MPs) with background material explaining the connections between internationaldevelopment issues and local activities and actions in their constituencies.

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