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In literature on charities and NGOs, the academic Adil Najam writes of "multiple accountabilities".
If you want to understand which of these "multiple accountabilities" dominates then you have to talk about power.
In an earlier blog I wrote about "multiple accountabilities"; a way of conceptualising the complex sets of relationships found in development projects.
One thing that interests me, is the extent to which Guardian journalists understand their significance in a place like Katine, and how they think about the multiple accountabilities they have to deal with.
What NGOs try to do is institutionalise mechanisms to manage multiple accountabilities (they hire auditors, hold public consultations, allow for participation at the planning stage, disseminate what is done).
While remarkably pervasive, the empirical reality of global health does not always lend itself to readily identifiable Principals and Agents, nor does this model adequately reflect the multiple accountabilities that actors contend with [ 9, 10].
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The Global Fund provides a useful entry point to illustrate multiple accountability relations, while the subfields identified (finance, programme, and governance) provide an organising frame to discuss accountability issues, and to highlight how accountability is an ongoing process of learning, change and contestation.
Additionally, it was considered critical that directors of chaplaincy care services are fully supportive of the chaplains' participation in research – including an accurate appreciation of its time commitments – with transparency regarding the multiple work accountabilities involved.
The overall goal of accountability arrangements is to ensure a "web of multiple, overlapping accountability relationships" that are functional and effective [ 94] (p194].
If you orient the system exclusively around a series of multiple choice accountability assessments, you distort it.
And ISIS apparently has their act together on accounting: the Financial Times quotes Charles Lister, an analyst from the Brookings Doha Center, as saying: "Most jihadist groups are tightly controlled, secretive and well coordinated, but Isis has essentially taken that to another level, with a quite impressive level of bureaucracy, extensive account keeping, and multiple channels of accountability".
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