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Process Drive 7 - Accountability

Reflecting

What do we know already?

Questions to ask

• What experiences of accountability have group members had?
• What aspects of accountability have people been involved in, for example, financial, ethical, etc.?
• How was accountability documented?
• Who made the decisions about what needed to be accounted for in what way?
• What has happened in the past?
• How did this go?
• What effect does this have on what happens now?

You may find the Reflecting on Experience Tool [PDF | Word] is useful here.

Record your response to these questions.

Interpreting

Why is it important to us?

Questions to ask

• What were the strengths and weaknesses of past accountability processes?
• How do you know this?
• What other issues would you need to consider to decide appropriate accountability issues for your community?
• How will your value set influence decisions about accountability?
• How would you like to see accountability happen in the future?
• Is there other information we need to gather here, for example policies, legal opinions, etc.?

Record your response to these questions.

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Deciding

What will we do?

Questions to ask

(You might find the Action Planning Tool [PDF | Word] helpful here.)

• Who needs to be accountable and what do they need to be accountable for?
• Who will they be accountable to and who will be accountable to them?
• How will they be accountable?
• How will values be made explicit in the accountability process?

What will we do?

• What records will be kept?
• How will the information be shared with the wider community?
• How will we know if things go wrong?
• What will happen if things go wrong?

Record your response to these questions

Accountability and evaluation of some projects may run over a long time.

Acting

Let's do it!

Things to do

• Development of community guidelines to guide decision making about resources and accountabilities.
• Communities use guidelines to make decisions about resources.
• Financial records are open and accountable. You may like to refer to the Budget Reporting Form [PDF | Excel] as a guide.
• Ways of measuring change are identified and reported against an accountability process defined within the community, for example, the number of children staying at school or the number of people using the community centre.

Record what you did.

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Evaluating

How did it go?

Questions to ask

You may find the Reflecting on Experience Tool [PDF | Word] is useful here.

• Were individual group, community and CAPIR value sets met in the development and use of community and accountability processes? The CAPIR Value Set Checklist [PDF | Word] might be useful here.
• How do you know?
• How effective were the accountability processes?
• How have you judged this?
• Do you think the processes need to be changed in any way?
• If so how do they need to be changed and why?
• Is there anything about this accountability process you would like to share with others?

Record your response to these questions

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