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Accountability In Practice: Mechanisms for NGOs
TL;DR: In this article, five broad accountability mechanisms are reviewed: reports and disclosure statements, performance assessments and evaluations, participation, self-regulation, and social audits, and it is observed that accountability in practice has emphasized "upward" and "external" accountability to donors while ''downward'' and ''internal'' mechanisms remain comparatively underdeveloped.
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About: This article is published in World Development. The article was published on 01 May 2003. The article focuses on the topics: Accountability & Audit.
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