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.
Accountability mechanisms could be key tools for ensuring the answerability of public primary health care facilities to central bureaucracies through the district health system, while at the same time providing the local decision-space that could increase citizen and patient responsiveness.
Meanwhile both board and comptroller have some answerability, at least for funds, to an obscure Commons committee called the public accounts commission – not the same thing as the public accounts committee.
As Westlund's account explicitly acknowledges, she may nevertheless have the capacity for answerability.
Various factors underpinned the NHC focus on assisting with service delivery versus ensuring the answerability of health workers.
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.
To announce to water companies throughout the Commonwealth that no species of indifference on their part, no negligence, no matter how gross, will call for pecuniary answerability is to invite progressive inattention and indifference to protection against the scourge of flame and incendiary invasion.
Bishop Gregory also promised the laity that "we bishops will be answerable to you," that "answerability begins with openness" and that the charter would remove "the shroud of secrecy which has undermined your trust in us".
The interpersonal emphasis characteristic of Strawson-inspired accountability models is reflected in the demand for justification (though answerability theorists tend to reject a necessary connection between these demands and the reactive attitudes).
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].
