President Obama's proposal to develop a national scorecard for ranking universities is a valuable contribution towards improving accountability for higher education.
The government's aim was to improve accountability for hospitals and help patients make more informed choices on where to receive care.
Writing in the Federal Register, Department of Justice officials said their new program should increase transparency around the use of force by police and improve accountability for the actions of individual officers.
His report, published in late January, proposed creating a range of national and local bodies to improve accountability for child welfare - headed by a national agency for children and families.
He believes that to effect change in the child sex abuse crisis, church law needs to include a sentence that says people who sexually abuse children cannot be priests, that the Vatican needs to create a global registry of every priest that has been convicted of sex abuse and that the Church needs to improve accountability for bishops and church officials.
Shulkin, 57, was pressed by Republicans for assurances that despite his status as an Obama appointee, he would act swiftly to speed up a slow appeals process for benefit claims, improve accountability for poor performers and get veterans medical care faster.
Local authorities, the NHS and other agencies will be able to share information about any suspicion of abuse or neglect in the family.The bill includes powers to shake up local government, in a bid to improve accountability for children's services.
Rees, has been working with the CDDRL Program on Human Rights to promote research on human trafficking, posed an interesting question: can extraterritorial jurisdiction — the legal ability of a government to exercise authority beyond its borders — be a tool for improving accountability for human rights abuse during peacekeeping operations?
If constructed and regulated well, such transactions can stimulate water savings, increase water availability, improve productivity and allocation efficiency, and improve accountability for water use.
The inspector general's report concluded, however, that "none of these initiatives include a mechanism for improving accountability for poor management". Seven of 19 reviews of the CIA posted from 2010 to 2012 on Glassdoor, a website that allows employees to review their workplaces anonymously, cite bad management.
It is intended also as a means to improve accountability for decision-making and may require revision as feedback and circumstances require.
