The phrase "accountability failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a lack of responsibility or oversight, often in a professional or organizational context.
Example: "The project's delays were attributed to an accountability failure among the team members, leading to missed deadlines."
Alternatives: "responsibility breakdown" or "oversight lapse".
"When something goes wrong — a death, an escape — the government can blame it on a kind of market failure instead of an accountability failure," he said.
In this context of accountability failure within state institutions, the question that arises is how affected populations and civil society can work to claim accountability for basic services like maternal healthcare.
Unclear distinction on service provision between central government and the local authorities, dependency on unreliable funds from the central government and disparity between the responsibilities given and power bestowed to the local government has been documented to contribute to accountability failure of the local governments for their local responsibilities [ 52- 54].
He shows how authoritarianism has distorted Chinese development while democratic governance in India has been marred by severe accountability failures.
Looking for scapegoats is a way to avoid reflection, criticism and accountability after failure.
If private enterprise, the free market and local authority ensure accountability for failure, as Mr. Tierney insists, then why has there not been a public rolling of heads at United and American Airlines?
It creates a story of accountability for failure, while cauterising the wound by demonstrating that the fault lies with the individual, not the system of which they are part.
During the conference, keynote speaker Nigel Sizer, chief operating officer of the Rainforest Alliance, spoke of a "crisis of accountability" and failure of governments and companies to uphold sustainability commitments.
Not surprisingly, beneath this very accomplished CEO's behavior was a tape of perfectionism, declaring, "If you're wrong about this, it's all on you". His fear of being wrong and bearing disproportionate levels of accountability for failure prevented him from using his brilliant mind to weigh available options and data, include the perspectives of his capable leaders, and make the call.
Yet without new models the risk is strong that a wide community of otherwise potentially willing pastoralists will be de-motivated from undertaking serious conservation efforts on their holdings, the area of land under effective conservation management will ultimately be reduced, and personal accountability for failure will remain weak.
