Opening the Black Box : The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability

This publication fills an important knowledge gap by providing guidance on how to assess contextual drivers of social accountability effectiveness. It aims to strategically support citizen engagement at the country level and for a specific issue or problem. The report proposes a novel framing of...

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Main Authors: Grandvoinnet, Helene, Aslam, Ghazia, Raha, Shomikho
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Language:en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2015
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spelling okr-10986-216862021-04-23T14:04:04Z Opening the Black Box : The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability Grandvoinnet, Helene Aslam, Ghazia Raha, Shomikho administrative accountability anticorruption citizen engagement governance open government participation political accountability political economy social accountability transparency This publication fills an important knowledge gap by providing guidance on how to assess contextual drivers of social accountability effectiveness. It aims to strategically support citizen engagement at the country level and for a specific issue or problem. The report proposes a novel framing of social accountability as the interplay of constitutive elements: citizen action and state action, supported by three enabling levers: civic mobilization, interface and information. For each of these constitutive elements, the report identifies 'drivers' of contextual effectiveness which take into account a broad range of contextual factors (e.g., social, political and intervention-based, including information and communication technologies). Opening the Black Box offers detailed guidance on how to assess each driver. It also applies the framework at two levels. At the country level, the report looks at 'archetypes' of challenging country contexts, such as regimes with no formal space or full support for citizen-state engagement and fragile and conflict-affected situations. The report also illustrates the use of the framework to analyze specific social accountability interventions through four case studies: Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Yemen, and the Kyrgyz Republic. 2015-04-06T15:48:02Z 2015-04-06T15:48:02Z 2015-04-14 Book 978-1-4648-0481-6 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21686 en_US New Frontiers of Social Policy; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication Kyrgyz Republic Pakistan Sierra Leone Yemen, Republic of
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topic administrative accountability
anticorruption
citizen engagement
governance
open government
participation
political accountability
political economy
social accountability
transparency
spellingShingle administrative accountability
anticorruption
citizen engagement
governance
open government
participation
political accountability
political economy
social accountability
transparency
Grandvoinnet, Helene
Aslam, Ghazia
Raha, Shomikho
Opening the Black Box : The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability
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Pakistan
Sierra Leone
Yemen, Republic of
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description This publication fills an important knowledge gap by providing guidance on how to assess contextual drivers of social accountability effectiveness. It aims to strategically support citizen engagement at the country level and for a specific issue or problem. The report proposes a novel framing of social accountability as the interplay of constitutive elements: citizen action and state action, supported by three enabling levers: civic mobilization, interface and information. For each of these constitutive elements, the report identifies 'drivers' of contextual effectiveness which take into account a broad range of contextual factors (e.g., social, political and intervention-based, including information and communication technologies). Opening the Black Box offers detailed guidance on how to assess each driver. It also applies the framework at two levels. At the country level, the report looks at 'archetypes' of challenging country contexts, such as regimes with no formal space or full support for citizen-state engagement and fragile and conflict-affected situations. The report also illustrates the use of the framework to analyze specific social accountability interventions through four case studies: Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Yemen, and the Kyrgyz Republic.
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author Grandvoinnet, Helene
Aslam, Ghazia
Raha, Shomikho
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Aslam, Ghazia
Raha, Shomikho
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title Opening the Black Box : The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability
title_short Opening the Black Box : The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability
title_full Opening the Black Box : The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability
title_fullStr Opening the Black Box : The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability
title_full_unstemmed Opening the Black Box : The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability
title_sort opening the black box : the contextual drivers of social accountability
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2015
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21686
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