In its recent blogpost, Accountable Now presents how CSOs practicing a different kind of accountability towards their stakeholders is at the heart of the Global Standard’s mission. According to GS’ dynamic accountability, CSOs are not only accountable to their donors and governments but primarily to their constituents and stakeholders. Through implementing dynamic accountability practices like meaningful engagement, learning through closing feedback loops, and participatory decision making, CSOs shift the power towards those whose lives are impacted. GS Partners use the 12 Commitment framework to guide their actions with their communities of CSOs in their country and/or region. Among the other partners, BCSDN supported Macedonian and Albanian CSOs to use the GS as the framework to inform their national Codes of Standard. BCSDN provided technical and content-related support in the two-way process, while the national networks and CSOs provided the regional and membership knowledge to direct BCSDN’s support. Read more here.
Source: Accountable Now