Sanction is preceded by standard-setting, investigation and answerability.
Accountability and answerability are two of the major themes now derived from Magna Carta.
Concerns in the supplementing approach include such matters as trust and answerability raised by multiple authorship, the division of cognitive labor, the reliability of peer review, the challenges of privately funded science, as well as concerns arising from the role of scientific research in society.
The criteria of "maximum potential to reduce the disease burden" and "deliverability, affordability, and sustainability" were ranked the highest and "answerability" was ranked the lowest by the reference group.
Following interviewer training, the tool was pre-tested in facilities similar to those actually surveyed to check for relevance and answerability of the survey questions.
A 'think aloud' study was conducted to explore glaucoma patients' views on the comprehensibility, acceptability, relevance and answerability of the draft AGQ in order to inform its refinement.
Such approaches, with their emphasis on social justice, non-discrimination, engagement of civil society and answerability, arguably account in large part for the unprecedented progress in many MDG areas particularly the AIDS response [ 38].
Being able to build norms of responsiveness and answerability between these local players, despite the absence of formal lines of accountability is a key element of local governance of CBS.
The exploration of comprehensibility, acceptability, relevance and answerability of the initial draft of the AGQ in a 'think aloud' study resulted in the removal of 15 items and to the refinement of others.
Our method employs a systematic 5-step approach: 1) Generation of a pool of items from an existing body of knowledge; 2) Item de-duplication; 3) Item reduction; 4) Assessment of content validity (against a relevant pre-existing theoretical framework); and 5) Exploratory pilot work to assess comprehensibility, acceptability, relevance and answerability to the target population.
Phase three involved a subsequent round of coding which focused on identifying how the different domains (administrative and social) and mechanisms (answerability and enforceability) of accountability were influenced by the new HIV services in each and across the four facilities.
