In its efforts to reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has placed good governance, civil society, accountability and information disclosure among its key themes.
In 2019, it said it plans to address censorship and discrimination in its content moderation; and it's also working on a "Civil Rights Accountability Infrastructure," in which civil rights are put front and center in the development of new products and policies.
The independent libertarians in the tea party movement probably have more points of honest intersection with progressives on the war, civil liberties, accountability and transparency than with the GOP and the "For Sale" sign they've affixed to the taxpayer trough.
Once in place, though, the systems can also prove useful in improving civil-service accountability.
One such issue is civil service, ministerial accountability and the suggestion of greater ministerial involvement in the most senior appointments.
"All of these words -- transparency, accountability, civil society -- when I started in the legislature, many people here did not even know what they really meant," he said later.
A long history of foreign intervention and occupation, weak governance systems stemming from a lack of transparency and accountability, civil strife and conflicts are all reasons for tensions and war in this region.
Andrew Haldenby, director of the independent thinktank Reform, has described the reform plans as "too little, too late", arguing that more radical reform should have been introduced earlier, to increase civil servants' personal accountability.
President Rodriguez's term began with a period of unusual political co-operation, one result of which was the ICE plan; but the politicians' failure to gauge the public mood made the reform fail, and increased distrust.There are now proposals that aim to tackle voter apathy by increasing accountability, civil participation and the role of local government.
