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Through meaningful engagement, partners can understand and learn more about each other’s strengths, areas to improve, and operational context – leading to the better specialization of tasks and further understanding each other’s constraints. In embedding dynamic accountability practices like meaningful engagement into a partnership, the goal is to shift the power towards partners and facilitate
Read more →The 2020 pandemic is encouraging broad sections of civil society to move its operations online. In-person cooperations can be essential for digital social accountability initiatives because demanding accountability operates through relationship building, trust-building, and negotiation, which are more comfortable face-to-face. The article, published by Integrity Action, elaborates on if the organizations are taking much of
Read more →Rendir APP is a self-assessment tool designed to improve CSO accountability. The application is a quick and easy way to self-evaluate an organization concerning the Global Standard for CSO Accountability, aiming to identify strengths and areas for improvement. It includes 12 aspirational commitments, focusing not only on what organizations currently do but also on what
Read more →CSOs are occupying more and more spaces in the public sphere, gaining access to more financial and political resources, advocating for civil society and citizen activism, and increasingly influencing public policies and fostering social change. CSOs must establish the principles of legitimacy, transparency and accountability (LTA). The guide looks at how some CSOs are already
Read more →When a CSO is legitimate, transparent, and accountable to stakeholders, it enhances its credibility and sets it on the right part of development. It also facilitates significant engagements with donors, government, and the general public. It aids CSOs to comply with stipulated guidelines and changes the narrative about the public perception of CSOs activities and
Read more →The Guidelines are composed of topics that intertwine with each other and affect organizations’ good governance and management. The Guidelines cover the most sensitive issues in terms of following the principles of good governance that have emerged from monitoring the work of grantees such as: organizational structure and clear separation of bodies of organizations, conflict
Read more →The Think Tank Diversity Action Statement is a joint letter and list of recommendations written to increase diversity and inclusion in think tanks. The statement was written by a group of employees diverse in race, gender and political leaning from across the think tank community. It was reviewed by more than 30 people working in,
Read more →Young people and their communities should be capable of exercising power to contribute to action and to lead development. The Development Alternative is a group of organizations where young people, communities, and civil society entirely lead, and they are not only lead by the change that benefits them. The Model for Change is a youth-led, tech-enabled,
Read more →The calamity caused by the COVID 19 is an opportunity to be traced to new ways of working, that put accountability practices and decentralized organization at their heart. Dynamic accountability is about engendering the “what has been” into the “what could be” regarding meaningful engagement. It is an internal motivation that pushes organizations beyond minimum
Read more →CSOs need to develop resiliency in their systems, staff, and strategies to weather uncertainty and change. Partners Global’s Resiliency+ Framework helps CSOs identify the external threats and internal vulnerabilities that impede them from implementing resilient operations and offers strategies, tactics, and tools to build resiliency around seven key factors. They are Adaptive Capacity, Business Acumen,
Read more →As the enabling environment for CSOs is threatened and civic spaces continue to close, the legitimacy, transparency and accountability (LTA) of civil society is increasingly questioned by governments and individuals alike. There is a strong need for CSOs to foster a culture of accountability and transparency to improve their working relationship with constituents and enhance
Read more →MCIC published a report on the governance practices on transparency and accountability of CSOs in North Macedonia. The research is part of the program “Sustainable Civil Society – State Financing of CSOs, implemented by MCIC together with BCSDN and CNVOS from Slovenia during the period 2018-2021. The program is funded by the EU. The report
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