The idea of answerability employs interpersonal relations in the definition of autonomy and hence is constitutively relational.
Benson's position, however, is weakly substantive for the reason that a condition of answerability on his view is that the agent treats herself as "properly…fit and worthy to possess such authority" (Benson 2005a, 117).
This idea is enshrined in Bakhtin's (1990) notion of answerability as a means of accountability, reflexivity and an encounter with one's own morality in the life of others.
Our findings point to specific opportunities in the Zambia setting vis-à-vis strengthening mechanisms of answerability and enforceability.
Mechanisms of answerability provide information that makes transparent and justifies the nature of health providers' decisions or actions.
Nor did HIV scale-up activities reinforce the implementation of other mechanisms of answerability, such as the Ministry-mandated 'patient feedback' boxes.
In developing a typology of accountability we additionally drew on Brinkerhoff's characterisation of accountability [ 39, 45] as the product of effective mechanisms of answerability and of enforceability.
Although there is a range of possible definitions of accountability, the essence is of answerability between sets of actors in relation to specific activities or interventions.
Specifically, we sought to understand how the introduction of HIV services influenced the dual domains of administrative and social accountability, via mechanisms of answerability and enforceability.
Presented with these evidence, the panel of experts however expressed moderate levels of optimism (score around 60%) concerning the ability of aerosolized measles to satisfy the criterion of answerability.
Although not supported by hard evidence, the panel of experts expressed moderate levels of optimism (median score around 60percentt, which was greater than for active immunization) concerning the ability of immunotherapy for passive immunization to satisfy the criterion of answerability.
