Collaborative Social Accountability in Fragile Settings : Lessons from Guinea, Niger, and Tajikistan
The United Nations and World Bank jointly urge a shift away from managing crises toward prevention through inclusive and collective interventions (United Nations and World Bank 2018). Collaborative social accountability—a process where citizens and...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/413731594333475495/Collaborative-Social-Accountability-in-Fragile-Settings-Lessons-from-Guinea-Niger-and-Tajikistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34077 |
| Summary: | The United Nations and World Bank
jointly urge a shift away from managing crises toward
prevention through inclusive and collective interventions
(United Nations and World Bank 2018). Collaborative social
accountability—a process where citizens and civil society
actors engage with state actors in joint, iterative problem
solving to improve service delivery, sector governance, and
accountability—can make an important contribution to this
goal. Citizen engagement, and within that social
accountability, can potentially help to strengthen the
social contract and build state legitimacy. A consensus is
emerging among scholars that state legitimacy is enhanced
not by service delivery alone but by the opportunities the
process provides for citizens to interact positively with
the state. Inclusive citizen engagement involving women,
youth, and other traditionally excluded groups in
decision-making is fundamental to sustaining peace. Formal
and informal civil society organizations (CSOs) can play
critical roles by representing citizen interests and
preferences, enabling citizens to hold government to
account, facilitating collaboration of citizens and state
actors, and involving coalitions of stakeholders. Supported
by the State and Peacebuilding Fund (SPF), the Global
Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) piloted
collaborative social accountability approaches that bring
together citizens, CSOs, and the state actors in Guinea,
Niger, and Tajikistan from September 2018 to December 2019.
This note aims to capture the activities and lessons learned
as a resource for World Bank operations teams. |
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