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Artículos de revistas sobre el tema "Accountability Practices"

Goddard, Andrew. "Budgetary practices and accountability habitus". Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 17, n.º 4 (septiembre de 2004): 543–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513570410554551.

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Bissland, James H. "Accountability gap: Evaluation practices show improvement". Public Relations Review 16, n.º 2 (junio de 1990): 25–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0363-8111(05)80003-7.

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Malaj, Ariet y Rezart Dibra. "ACCOUNTABILITY PRACTICES, BOARD FUNCTIONS AND PERFORMANCE". European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, n.º 6 (2020): 58–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.29013/ejhss-20-6-58-62.

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Saxton, Gregory D. y Chao Guo. "Accountability Online: Understanding the Web-Based Accountability Practices of Nonprofit Organizations". Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 40, n.º 2 (23 de julio de 2009): 270–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764009341086.

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Rappolt, Susan, Aruna L. Mitra y Elise Murphy. "Professional Accountability in Restructured Contexts of Occupational Therapy Practice". Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy 69, n.º 5 (diciembre de 2002): 293–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000841740206900505.

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Professional standards for accountability establish essential competencies for clinical practices and provide strategies for professional advancement. This study examines the perspectives of a sample of occupational therapists on their capacity to engage in continuing education, to provide evidence-based practices and to have confidence in the effectiveness of available quality assurance mechanisms within restructured contexts of occupational therapy practice. The analysis of in-depth interviews with participants from program management, managed competition and private practice suggested three urgent needs: the development of strategies to assist therapists' translation of research evidence into clinical practices, research to determine the effectiveness of models of professional leadership within the workplace that promote professional accountability and alliances to advance policies that eliminate workplace barriers to professional accountability.

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Pramesti, Ardhita, Ester Candra Riyandini y David Adechandra Aschedica Pesudo. "AKUNTABILITAS DAN PENGENDALIAN INTERNAL PADA ORGANISASI NIRLABA (STUDI PADA GBI AMBARAWA)". Behavioral Accounting Journal 1, n.º 2 (28 de diciembre de 2018): 176–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.33005/baj.v1i2.32.

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This study aims to analyze financial accountability practices and internal controls conducted in Church organizations. Accountability practices are divided into 3, namely income, expenditure, and assets and internal control over these three issues. The type of this research is qualitative research. This study uses primary data types through interviews, and secondary data through financial statements. The results of this study indicate that the practice of financial accountability in GBI Organizations. Cipto 3 Ambarawa is sufficient and internal control is relatively loose but does not cause fraud.

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Zarnegar Deloffre, Maryam. "Global accountability communities: NGO self-regulation in the humanitarian sector". Review of International Studies 42, n.º 4 (13 de enero de 2016): 724–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210515000601.

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AbstractHow do humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) define and institutionalise global accountability standards? This article process-traces the case of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership-International (HAP-I), a voluntary, self-regulatory collective accountability initiative, to investigate the processes through which NGOs define collective rules, standards, and practices for accountability. This article shows the limitations of traditional representative and principal-agent models of NGO accountability when applied to the global inter-organisational realm and argues that mutual accountability better conceptualises these relationships. In this important case, the article finds that transnational coordination of NGO accountability practices results from social learning that generates a global accountability community (GAC) constituted by mutual engagement, joint enterprise, and a shared repertoire of practices. Data from the process tracing shows a collaborative not hierarchical or coercive relationship between NGOs and states, where salient donors changed their understandings and practices of accountability during the process of developing the HAP-I benchmarks. Thus, GACs both regulate the behaviour of members and constitute their social identities, interests, and practices.

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Masdar, Noor Muafiza y Rohaida Basiruddin. "The Holistic Accountability Practices among Malaysian Non-Government Organizations: A Conceptual Paper". 11th GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 11, n.º 1 (9 de diciembre de 2020): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.35609/gcbssproceeding.2020.11(124).

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Accountability practices are essential for all aspects of the public, private, and third world sectors as a way of transmitting information to stakeholders. Formal or informal ways of disseminating knowledge can be used. Non-governmental organizations have worked on all sides to meet their various stakeholder groups, in particular donors and beneficiaries. Most of the time donors want detailed information on the management and distribution of funds especially for NGOs that have funds collected and fund transfer across countries. However, NGOs find it difficult to deal with a lack of employees in the preparation of records. Not limited to this, certain significant donors have the ability to control NGOs and lead NGOs unable to channel desired outcomes of the beneficiaries or the so-called as mission drift phenomenon. This phenomenon has caused NGOs to lose their role in supporting the needy and alleviating poverty. With regard to this problem, the aim of this study is to investigate the way in which upward and downward accountability is being practiced and to understand the preference of these complex upward and downward accountability practices by the NGOs. Keywords: Downward accountability practices, non-government organizations, upward accountability practices.

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Alam, Md Mahmudul, Jamaliah Said y Mohamad Azizal Abd Aziz. "Role of integrity system, internal control system and leadership practices on the accountability practices in the public sectors of Malaysia". Social Responsibility Journal 15, n.º 7 (7 de octubre de 2019): 955–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/srj-03-2017-0051.

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Purpose This study aims to assess the status of current practices of accountability and its relationship with the practices of integrity system, internal control system and leadership qualities in the public sector of Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach This study collected primary data from 109 departments and agencies under 24 federal ministries in Malaysia. The data were analysed under descriptive statistics, ordinal regression and structural equation modelling (SEM). Several diagnostic tests were conducted to check the validity and reliability of data and models, such as Cronbach alpha test, Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin test, Shapiro–Wilk test, internal consistency reliability, indicator reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity. Findings The regression and SEM results show that the practices of integrity system and leadership quality had statistically significant positive relationship, but the practice of internal control system showed mixed relationship with the practices of accountability. Practical implications The findings of the study will help the policymakers to ensure better accountability in the public sector in Malaysia and other countries. Originality/value This is an original study based on primary data to examine the current practices of accountability and its relationship with the practices of integrity system, internal control system and leadership qualities in the public sector of Malaysia.

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Haraldsson, Mattias. "Transparency and accountability lost?" Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 12, n.º 3 (5 de septiembre de 2016): 254–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jaoc-01-2015-0006.

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Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore the causes of variations in financial accounting and disclosure practices in a municipal setting highly influenced by governance reforms – the Swedish municipal waste management sector. This focus is motivated by the claim that recent governance reforms have made the organization of public services delivery more diversified and fragmented, which may have had a negative effect on transparency and accountability. Design/methodology/approach To document the accounting and disclosure practices of the Swedish solid waste management organizations, a questionnaire approach was selected. The study uses a conceptual theoretical framework that complements the basic variables considered to influence public sector financial accounting and disclosure practices with factors such as competition and municipal governance forms. Findings The results show that compliance accounting and disclosure transparency to some extent have different antecedents and that the external environment, including market competition, size and economic input, influences both. The governance forms, on the other hand, only influenced compliance accounting (negatively and positively) and not the willingness to disclose information in general. The overall conclusion is that changes to the economic and institutional context mixed with different municipal governance forms introduces a multiplicity of forces that makes the accounting practices themselves diversified and fragmented and not necessarily only in a “negative” direction. Practical implications From a policy perspective the results indicate that the changing institutional and organizational environment has not been matched by attention to, and regulation of, reporting structures that secure external vertical accountability processes. The general implication for future regulations should therefore be to recognize the influence of different economic and institutional forces and develop accountability models that enable and preserve the benefits of governance reform initiatives without losing accountability and transparency. Originality/value Few prior quantitative studies have theoretically related municipal accounting and disclosure practices to factors such as market competition and popular municipal governance forms (municipal corporation, regional cooperation, outsourcing, etc.). Knowledge of how reforms might influence municipal accounting practices might benefit future policy decisions on accountability models with aim of enable and preserve the benefits of governance reform initiatives without losing accountability and transparency.

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Edwards, LaWanda Cobia Debra C. "Accountability practices of school counselors". Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1715.

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Ort, Jennifer Ann. "Accountability among baccalaureate nursing students| Definitions, perceptions, and engagement practices of accountability". Thesis, Sage Graduate School, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10257944.

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To ensure optimal patient care an especially high level of accountability is required when entering the workforce. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore, describe, and define perceptions of accountability as described by sophomore and senior nursing students in two baccalaureate nursing programs. The research questions aimed to (a) define what it means to be accountable as a student in general and a nursing student in particular (b) describe the importance of accountability to the profession of nursing (c) describe the circumstances and conditions that demand accountability, and (d) engage in actions that promote self-accountability. After obtaining IRB approval, the researcher explained the study to the sophomore and senior nursing students who agreed to participate in the research. Eighteen participants were interviewed.

Six questions were asked during interviews conducted to investigate perceptions of accountability. Content analysis was used to discern the essence of the narratives, from which nine themes emerged. The nine themes identified are: Difficulty defining accountability and the interchangeable use of the terms; accountability and responsibility; emerging knowledge; focus on work of nursing; student attention to tasks and outcomes; motivation/self-discipline; student stress and sources of stress; conditions for accountability and responsibility, and faculty actions; and promoting self-accountability and accountability to others.

Study findings suggested that this group of students understood the importance of accountability but were unable to verbalize a definition, often confusing accountability with responsibility. Students perceived that faculty played a role in their academic success; students also promoted accountability in faculty and in peers who were less successful academically.

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Topdemir, Cindy M. "School Counselor Accountability Practices: A National Study". Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3706.

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This study focused on school counselor accountability practices. The role of the school counselor is changing and the need to be more accountable is now here. This study attempted to answer several critical questions regarding school counselor accountability. It examined the degree to which school counselors use accountability measures, to what extent they believed certain accountability practices were deemed helpful to their school counseling program, and what they believed their barriers were. Accountability is a “hot” topic in present school counseling literature; but little research has been done up to this point investigating these issues related to school counselor accountability nor school counselors’ perceptions and beliefs about them. This study attempted to delve into those perceptions and beliefs. Participants were members of state school counseling associations from across the United States. Three hundred seventy-five school counselors participated. Of those, 70.2% were currently using accountability practices. A total of 47.4% of the participants report presently being required to implement accountability practices. The most frequently reported barrier to accountability practices was that it was “too time consuming.” The most frequently reported type of assistance desired from professional organizations or university programs was training. Support was reported most frequently as the type of assistance desired from school systems. Results from other analyses are also included. Limitations, implications, and suggestions for further research are provided.

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Abayo, Abdiel Gershom. "The accountability and corporate disclosure practices in Tanzania". Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260010.

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Ismail, Sherif. "Accountability practices of Islamic banks : a stakeholders' perspective". Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/4256.

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This study explores the concept of accountability in Islamic Banks (IB), which may achieve through disclosure. It aims to measuring the bank’s disclosure levels which contains Sharia, Social and Financial (SSF) as well as determinants and consequences of this disclosure. It moreover aims to identify the gap between Islamic banks’ board and stakeholders concerned with the accountabilities priorities of IBs. To achieve these objectives the researcher conducted six empirical studies. The first three empirical studies uses content analysis to measuring compliance level with Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) standards as well as measuring the and sharia, social and financial disclosure (SSFD). It furthermore adopts Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) to identify the determinants of SSF reporting related to firm characteristics and corporate governance of Board of Directors (BOD) and Sharia Supervisory Board (SSB). The fourth empirical study uses the same method (manual content analysis) and OLS to measuring the economic consequences of SSFD on the firm value through testing the impacts of disclosure on market capitalization and return on assets. The fifth empirical study adopts questionnaire as well as Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to measures the non-economic consequences of SSFD though surveying the perceptions of stakeholders who deal with IBs about the increasing SSFD on loyalty; trust and satisfaction. Finally, the sixth empirical study uses questionnaire to explore the consequences of SSF practices on the perceptions 600 stakeholders who deal with IBs and non-customers who do not deal with IBs. Highlighting the distinctions between economic and non-economic consequences of disclosure in the study enables the researcher to obtain greater insights into the implications of SSF reporting. Moreover, exploring accountability practices from different viewpoints (management, stakeholders and non-customers) and based on different methods (content analysis and questionnaire) allows the researcher to obtain greater insights into IBs accountabilities’ practices. This study provides several interesting findings. With regard to the disclosure and compliance levels, the study finds a variation between IBs in the number of SSFs disclosed, with a notably low level of non-financial reporting (Sharia and social). It also finds high compliance level with AAOIFI standards related to financial and Sharia reporting and low compliance levels with social reporting requirements. Concerning with the determinants of disclosure; the analysis shows positive significant association of disclosure levels with existing Sharia auditing department; auditor; size and profitability. It also finds that corporate governance mechanisms play an important role in improving SSF reporting. The analysis indicates that corporate governance mechanism of board of directors (BOD) as well as Sharia supervisory board (SSB) are the main determinants behind the disclosure levels for IBs such as SSB size, SSB reputation; BOD independence, duality in position and ownership structure. Concerned with the economic consequences of disclosure, the study finds that Sharia, social and overall disclosures have a positive impact on Firm Value (FV) based on the accounting-based measure (ROA). It moreover finds that Sharia and overall disclosure has a positive significant impact on the FV based on market-based measure (Market Capitalization). It argues that the association between disclosure and FV is sensitive to the category of disclosure and the proxy employed for FV. Consequently, the study provides evidence that the SSF disclosures not derived from the same factors, and both have a different impact on firm value. With regard to the non-economic consequences of disclosure, the results indicate that there is a significant association between disclosure and stakeholders’ trust, satisfaction, and loyalty. The results furthermore indicate that there is a partial mediating of trust and satisfaction in the relationship between disclosure and loyalty. A pyramid of IBs’ accountabilities from stakeholders’ perspectives shows the importance of Sharia, then financial and social accountability for both stakeholders and non-customers. It moreover shows that the main criterion of stakeholder’s selection of IBs was Sharia, financial then social factors. Stakeholders who deal with IBs are satisfied about the practices of these banks. Both of groups believe that IBs may guide by Sharia, financial then social objectives. The results identifies gap between the orientation of IBs’ board based on the disclosure and orientation of stakeholders and non-customers based on their perceptions towards SSF accountability. The main originality for this study is measuring SSFD for most of Islamic banks around the world from different perspectives and methods as well as identifies the main determinants and consequences of this disclosure. These results have several implications for regulators, policy makers, managers, IBs, investors, FASB and AAOIFI. For instance, the present study has revealed that disclosure of SSFs - especially non-financial ones - was limited in many annual reports as well as websites. Therefore, regulatory bodies may identify a minimum level of SSFs to publish by each IB. The study has crucial implications to how IBs may improve its Sharia compliance disclosures to create a competitive advantage. The present study is one of the first to investigate the determinants and consequences for SSF disclosure for IBs based on a holistic model. Moreover, the current study is one of the first to investigate the non-economic consequences for corporate disclosure. The current study has some limitations, in either sample or data; disclosure indices; approach; or in its research methodology, which have to consider as potential avenues for future research.

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Williamson, Tankiya L. "Exploring Perceptions of Accountability Practices Used in Social Services". ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4823.

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As required by the Government Performance Results Act of 1993, the use of performance measurements in social service organizations to measure outcome data has increased expectations of efficient outcomes in service delivery. This study addressed the problem of inefficient service delivery in nonprofit human service organizations from the perspective of direct service staff responsible for service provision. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore how direct service staff in nonprofit organizations perceive their individual contributions to the overall goal of providing efficient quality service. Principal agent theory framed the inquiry regarding how direct service staff working in nonprofit human service organizations perceive the nature and value of using performance measurements as required by law. Data were collected from 5 direct service workers through semi-structured interviews and analyzed for content themes using Ethnograph software. The results of this study indicated direct service workers perceive organizational efficiency related to how well they do their jobs and not overall at the organizational level. In addition, participants identified job training and more open communication with management to understand how organizational level goals would be valued to do their jobs effectively. This study contributes to social change by informing those who develop nonprofit human services policy and practice of the potential for further staff training curriculum and improvements to the organizational accountability culture.

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Conlin, Brad. "INGO Performance Management Practices and the Need for Accountability". Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32143.

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This study provides a comprehensive look at the current state of best practices in performance appraisal systems in the public and private sector. From this, the main objective for this research paper is to investigate the reasons why INGOs are not currently able to properly implement a ‘best practices’ based performance appraisal system. Furthermore, this paper will provide both future research questions, as well as practitioner based recommendations. In addition, it will examine the need for higher levels of accountability in INGOs through appropriate performance appraisal systems.

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Zakaria, Zamzulaila. "The practices of managing performance : accounting, accountability and cultural practices in a privatised pharmaceutical organisation". Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/49226/.

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This study seeks to understand the practices of managing performance in a privatised pharmaceutical organisation. In particular, it examines the interplay of accounting, accountability and cultural practices in the everyday practices of managing performance in the organisation. Based on an intensive field study of five months, an ethnographic approach was selected and data collected through observations, interviews and reviews of documents. Drawing on practice theory, this thesis provides an insight into how accounting as part of the constituents of organisational control systems was implicated in the practices of managing dual accountability, cultural change and the process of goal alignment. Contrary to the notion that accounting is mainly associated with the exercise of hierarchical accountability, the case illustrates practical and general understandings of accounting were enacted through socialising accountability. Additionally, it describes the way in which accounting and strategising were implicated in the practices of managing dual accountability in the organisation. In light of the implementation of KPIs in the organisation, the mesh of accounting and other organisational practices are explored, the consequences of which are explained in two findings. Firstly, the study argues that the coexistence of change and stability of accounting practices is the outcome of the interplay between agency and subcultural practices. This study suggests that subculture resides in practices, which influences the way in which accounting is used in the organisation. Secondly, the thesis discusses the uses of performance measurement in managing the interdependence of practices and to promote goal alignment. The implementation of the management programme and the change of organisational structure are illustrative of the process through which accounting and non-accounting control relate in the process of goal alignment.

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Handayani, Wuri. "Accountability and governance practices in Islamic microfinance institutions : evidence from Indonesia". Thesis, University of Hull, 2015. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16433.

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This thesis presents an explanatory analysis of the accountability and governance practices within Islamic microfinance institutions in Indonesia, adopting Bourdieu’s theory of practice with the triad of concepts of field, capital and habitus. This study is based on the argument that accountability and governance are socially and subjectively constructed through internal and external mechanisms. The internal mechanism includes the organisational history and its culture, while the external factor is the context in which the organisation operates. The concept of field is a guide to achieving the first research objective in examining the historical development of the Islamic microfinance sector in Indonesia. The changes and developments within the field are the external factors that affect the construction of accountability and governance practices within selected Islamic microfinance institutions in Indonesia (IIMFIs). The historical research method is deemed the most appropriate to provide a narrative history of the development of the field. This was done by interviewing and analysing the secondary data of journal research relating to Indonesia’s socio-political situation over the period, the initiative on microfinance services, the Islamic resurgence movement and the financial reforms. The findings demonstrate that the development of the Islamic microfinance sector is inseparable from the socio-economic and political situation in Indonesia. Therefore, the field of Islamic microfinance is dynamic rather than static: it changes and develops over time. Furthermore, the concept of capital and habitus helps to achieve the second research objective, to examine the construction and re-construction of accountability and governance within selected IMFIs in Indonesia: BMT A and BTM B. The internal factors of the growth of various types of capital (economic, culture, social and symbolic), imbued by the organisational habitus, constructed the accountability and governance practices. Such practices are developed over the period corresponding to the different stages of organisational growth. Both institutions have evolved from small pilot projects into two of the biggest IIMFIs in Indonesia by developing their own mechanisms of accountability and governance to ensure their capability to continue their operations in the future. This study offers a unique lens for exploring, in a specific context, the construction of accountability and governance practices, the dynamic aspects of which traditional governance theories are unable to explain.

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Hay, Aletha Adell. "The mediating influence of internal accountability systems on teachers' assessment practices". Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29219.

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This collective case study explores the nature of internal accountability systems in two elementary schools situated within a provincial-level accountability agenda using large-scale performance testing to ensure both school accountability and professional learning. The purpose of this mixed model study was threefold: first, to explore the components and strength of internal accountability systems and the interactive dynamics with the external system; second, to identify key environmental factors that impacted the school-based systems; and third, to reveal the influence these internal forums had on teachers' assessment practices. Multiple theoretical lenses informed the conceptual framework used to analyze the policy to practice connections in the restructuring educational system. The study findings reveal several observations. First, internal accountability systems should possess five components including aims, information on school performance, a standard of achievement, person(s) who judge school performance, and mechanisms to guide and monitor teachers' practices. The presence of all five components suggests that strong internal accountability systems were in place in the two schools. Second, two environmental factors impacting these systems were large-scale performance tests and professional leadership. There is indication that the design of the testing program minimized unintended negative effects linked with public reports and that school leadership was instrumental in mobilizing support for school improvement and professional learning. Third, the study also describes the relationship between the internal and external systems nested within the province's standards-based reform initiative. The findings unpack the compatibility between the instruments and strategies of the school-level systems and those of the state-level system, lending support for the proposition that external oversight contributes to school-based ownership for proactive change. Finally, the study findings illuminate how internal accountability systems mediated teachers' practices and supported the development of collegial assessment practices. The findings lend support for the position that the dual aims of accountability and professional learning are enabled when internal accountability systems are facilitated by a professionally oriented external policy environment.

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Corporate social accountability: Disclosures and practices. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1995.

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Beyer, Marty. Best practices in juvenile accountability: Overview. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants Program, 2003.

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C, Kimberling William y National Clearinghouse on Election Administration (U.S.), eds. Ballot security and accountability. Washington, D.C. (999 E St., N.W., Washington 20463): National Clearinghouse on Election Administration, Federal Election Commission, 1995.

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United States. General Accounting Office. Accounting and Information Management Division. Internal controls: DOD records retention practices hamper accountability. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 2000.

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Kurlychek, Megan Clouser. Focus on accountability: Best practices for juvenile court and probation. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Regional Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants Program, 1999.

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Brown-Shafii, Susan. Promoting good governance, development and accountability: Implementation and the WTO. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Hopwood, Graham. Namibia's new frontiers: Transparency and accountability in extractive industry exploration. Windhoek, Namibia: Institute for Public Policy Research, 2013.

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1963-, Slembrouck Stefaan y Sarangi Srikant 1956-, eds. Language practices in social work: Categorisation and accountability in child welfare. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.

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Ganesan, Arvind. Transparency and accountability in Angola: An update. New York, NY: Human Rights Watch, 2010.

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Link, Albert N. y John T. Scott. "Toward Best Practices in Performance Evaluation". En Public Accountability, 153–57. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5639-8_14.

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Ismail, Noriswadi. "Acclaiming Accountability. Preaching Best Practices". En Beyond Data Protection, 125–34. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33081-0_7.

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Černič, Jernej Letnar. "Business, socio-economic rights and good practices". En Corporate Accountability under Socio-Economic Rights, 64–84. New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Transnational law and governance: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315267685-4.

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Pearlman, Mari y Richard Tannenbaum. "Teacher Evaluation Practices in the Accountability Era". En International Handbook of Educational Evaluation, 609–41. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0309-4_36.

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Domingo, David y Heikki Heikkilä. "Media Accountability Practices in Online News Media". En The Handbook of Global Online Journalism, 272–89. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118313978.ch15.

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Jumani, Nabi Bux y Samina Malik. "Promoting Teachers’ Leadership Through Autonomy and Accountability". En Teacher Empowerment Toward Professional Development and Practices, 21–41. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4151-8_2.

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Wu, Joseph, Hoi Yan Cheung y Raymond M. C. Chan. "Changing Definition of Teacher Professionalism: Autonomy and Accountability". En Teacher Empowerment Toward Professional Development and Practices, 59–70. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4151-8_4.

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Dargusch, Joanne, Angelina Ambrosetti y Gillian Busch. "GTPA as Enabler: Review, Renewal and Evidence of Preservice Teachers’ Assessment Practices". En Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability, 129–48. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3705-6_8.

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Van Twist, Mark. "Organizing Accountability: From Best Practices to Dilemmas in Design". En Government Institutions: Effects, Changes and Normative Foundations, 217–33. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0963-8_11.

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Litardi, Irene, Gloria Fiorani y Daniele Alimonti. "The State of the Art of Green Public Procurement in Europe: Documental Analysis of European Practices". En Accountability, Ethics and Sustainability of Organizations, 175–92. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31193-3_9.

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Actas de conferencias sobre el tema "Accountability Practices"

Williams, Patrick y Eric Kind. "Hardwiring discriminatory police practices". En FAT* '20: Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3375695.

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Pacces, Alessio M. "The law and the balance between discretion and accountability in corporate governance". En Corporate Governance: Search for the advanced practices. Virtus Interpress, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cpr19k1.

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Sanchez, Raquel Garde, Laura Alcaide Munoz y Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar. "Are Spanish Audit Institutions complying with best practices for transparency and accountability?" En 2014 9th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cisti.2014.6877085.

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Sudirman, Indrianty, Andi Sidin y Nurdjanah Hamid. "Revisiting Accountability Concept and Practices in Makassar, Indonesia (A Study on 2 Private and Public Hospitals)". En Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Indonesian Social and Political Enquiries, ICISPE 2020, 9-10 October 2020, Semarang, Indonesia. EAI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.9-10-2020.2304727.

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Ramboarisata, Lovasoa y Linda Ben Fekih Aissi. "Perceptions of organizational injustice in French business schools". En Sixth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head20.2020.11277.

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Whereas the institutional drivers of the accountability discourse and the apparatus of performance evaluation accompanying such a discourse in the neoliberal university are well documented, their implications at the individual level have received lesser interest. Our paper suggests that more attention be paid to the voices and the experiences of the “governed”. It accounts of the unfairness of the accountability regime in higher education, and more specifically in business schools, as it is perceived by scholars in France. Using insights from the institutional complexity (IC) and organizational justice (OJ) literatures, as well as an empirical analysis of the French business scholars’take on their changing work context and the metrics against which their performance is assessed, our study extends the understanding of the implications of organizations’ rewards, incentives, performance control and evaluation practices for OJ. Moreover, it deconstructs the narrative of the accountability regime by reminding that institutional complexity leaves very little room for many scholars to be star researchers, excellent program managers, innovative and inclusive pedagogues as well as impactful public servants at the same time without hindering other academic missions they value (disinterested collegiality, care, social inclusion), their quality of life, family, and or health.

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Tseng, Hua Hui. "MUSIC CURRICULUM INTEGRATION PRACTICES - “ACCOUNTABILITY” AS POLICY TRANSLATION IN PROFESSIONAL MUSIC TRAINING: THE CASE OF THE TUT". En International Conference on Education and New Developments 2020. inScience Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2020end002.

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Alonso, Jose-Luis, Bernie Neal, Simon Jolly, Steven Auld y Adetola Adesanya. "Shutdowns Management: Changing Things Up by Only Applying Best Practices". En ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2018-77618.

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Production efficiency is a key factor for oil & gas companies to have a good performance in a low oil prices environment, and planned shutdowns are events that impact crucially in this factor. This technical paper objective is to explain how, starting from a point of high planned losses due to shutdowns bad performance (13%), the application during only one year of best practices compiled from oil & gas and other business experience is able to change things up to achieve an impressive outcome (3%). Long term planning, meticulous preparation and efficient execution are achieved when best practices are applied with accountability, rigor and common sense. Maintenance and Integrity shutdown plans compliance is also improved as they are considered inside a big picture that allows us to schedule them in the more efficient way to assure our HSE standards, and helped by some new technologies as the so called NII (Non-Intrusive Inspections). Standards, procedures, deliverables, communication channels, materials control, organigrams… are the specific tools to be used and refed to implement the lessons we learn at the end of each shutdown. Sharing regularly our experience with other operators is also a source of best practices and cross-pollination. Maintaining this quality standard along the time and improving to the extent possible will drive us to excellence in the middle term. As our teams become more and more involved on this new method, they start to feel more comfortable and propose improvements, being more and more committed as they see good results arriving.

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Turner, Astrid, Irene Lubbe, Liz Wolvaardt y Lizeka Napoles. "Navigating curriculum transformation: charting our course". En Fifth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head19.2019.9129.

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The 2015 student-led #FeesMustFall campaign in South Africa initiated at some universities, and accelerated at others, indepth discussions and reflections about curriculum transformation within the perceived ivory towers of learning. Three years later, the mandate to implement transformation is clear from all levels but what is uncertain is the operationalization of the official transformation framework at the University of Pretoria. The aim of the project presented is to chart the process followed by one of the four Schools of the Faculty of Health Sciences to deconstruct this transformation framework. As part of a three phased programme, a workshop of diverse staff using a modified nominal technique was held in 2018. It resulted in a visual tool of 19 specific statements considered evidence of personal practice that supports and advances the drive for transformation. This tool will be used to share practices and instil individual and School accountability for everone’s role in curriculum transformation. In conclusion, complex policy ideals and technical terminology can be translated into practical, appropriate actions by a diverse group of staff and students. The use of a modified nominal group technique was an efficient way to do this by generating an easy to use visual tool.

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Urra, Susan. "The Formal Adoption of a Process Safety Management Methodology Within an International Oil and Gas Pipeline Company". En 2012 9th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2012-90301.

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Process Safety Management (PSM) is an integrated approach to managing loss prevention. At Enbridge, as with many organizations, several PSM elements of practice have been implemented with different levels of rigor, maturity and/or alignment with best practices. This paper presents Enbridge Liquid Pipelines’ approach to assess a strategy to adopt a formal PSM system. A description of the current regulation framework for PSM and the drivers for adoption are presented to explain the considerations during the scoping and design of a PSM system for an international oil and gas pipeline system that operates across numerous state and provincial boundaries, and one international border. The paper also discusses the requirements for organizational governance to ensure accountability for and ownership of individual elements of a PSM program throughout a large, geographically diverse organization such as Enbridge. Finally, a strategy to develop and potentially implement and manage PSM in a large organization such as Enbridge is proposed.

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Miyamoto, Michiko. "Information Technology Governance of Japanese Companies; An Empirical Study". En 11th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CCSIT 2021). AIRCC Publishing Corporation, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/csit.2021.110704.

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IT has become an essential part of the organization. IT governance specifies the decision rights and accountability framework to encourage desirable behaviour in using IT. Concepts of IT governance has expanded to improve IT-business alignment under today’s business environment and prospects. This paper contributes to empirically knowledge of IT governance practices in Japanese organizations based on survey data gathered from 101 corporations, including large, medium, and small companies. The findings of the ordinal regression analyses in this study indicate that IT governance is associated with Strategic Alignment, Performance Measurement and Value Delivery, while Risk Management and Resource Management have positive but no significance association with IT governance.

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Informes sobre el tema "Accountability Practices"

Loureiro, Miguel, Maheen Pracha, Affaf Ahmed, Danyal Khan y Mudabbir Ali. Accountability Bargains in Pakistan. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), mayo de 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2021.046.

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Poor and marginalised citizens rarely engage directly with the state to solve their governance issues in fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings, as these settings are characterised by the confrontational nature of state–citizen relations. Instead, citizens engage with, and make claims to, intermediaries some of them public authorities in their own right. What are these intermediaries’ roles, and which strategies and practices do they use to broker state–citizen engagement? We argue that in Pakistan intermediaries make themselves essential by: (1) being able to speak the language of public authorities; (2) constantly creating and sustaining networks outside their communities; and (3) building collectivising power by maintaining reciprocity relations with their communities. In doing so, households and intermediaries engage in what we are calling ‘accountability bargains’: strategies and practices intermediaries and poor and marginalised households employ in order to gain a greater degree of security and autonomy within the bounds of class, religious, and ethnic oppression.

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Suárez-Villegas, JC, R. Rodríguez-Martínez, M. Mauri-Ríos y A. López-Meri. Accountability and Media Systems in Spain: Real impact and good practices in Spanish Media. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, marzo de 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-2017-1167en.

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Carter, Becky. Inclusion in Crisis Response, Recovery and Resilience. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), mayo de 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.079.

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This rapid review provides examples of what has worked to include people in humanitarian assistance who experience heightened vulnerability during crises, due to social inequalities and discrimination relating to gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, and sex characteristics; and religious belief . Overall, robust evidence is limited for what are, in most cases, relatively new areas of practice in challenging crisis situations. However, the literature does identify promising practices. Emerging themes from the research on what has potential for improving inclusion in humanitarian assistance include: affected people’s meaningful participation in intervention planning and design; whole-of-community approaches while maintaining accountability to the targeted beneficiaries; multi-component approaches combining complementary strategies (e.g. economic empowerment with social norms change programming); longer-term, pre-crisis investment in relationships with, and capacity building of, local organisations; and disaggregating data and undertaking intersectional analyses to include those hardest to reach.

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Muralidharan, Karthik y Abhijeet Singh. Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance in India. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), noviembre de 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2020/056.

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We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of an ambitious attempt to improve management quality in Indian schools (implemented in 1,774 randomly-selected schools). The intervention featured several global “best practices” including comprehensive assessments, detailed school ratings, and customized school improvement plans. It did not, however, change accountability or incentives. We find that the assessments were near-universally completed, and that the ratings were informative, but the intervention had no impact on either school functioning or student outcomes. Yet, the program was perceived to be successful and scaled up to cover over 600,000 schools nationally. We find using a matched-pair design that the scaled-up program continued to be ineffective at improving student learning in the state we study. We also conduct detailed qualitative interviews with frontline officials and find that the main impact of the program on the ground was to increase required reporting and paperwork. Our results illustrate how ostensibly well-designed programs, that appear effective based on administrative measures of compliance, may be ineffective in practice.

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Dalton, Ben. The Landscape of School Rating Systems. RTI Press, septiembre de 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2017.op.0046.1709.

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The rise of the accountability movement in education has resulted in the proliferation of school report cards, school ratings and rankings, and other kinds of performance reporting for public consumption and policy use. To understand the strengths and limitations of school rating systems and the role they play in shaping public perceptions and school improvement practices, this paper situates rating systems within the broader field of comparative organizational assessments and neo-institutional theory; describes school rankings and rating systems in use by states and consumer-oriented enterprises; and details four aspects of school ratings (measurement, transformation, integration, and presentation) that affect their use and interpretation.

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Brinkerhoff, Derick W., Sarah Frazer y Lisa McGregor-Mirghani. Adapting to Learn and Learning to Adapt: Practical Insights from International Development Projects. RTI Press, enero de 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2018.pb.0015.1801.

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Adaptive programming and management principles focused on learning, experimentation, and evidence-based decision making are gaining traction with donor agencies and implementing partners in international development. Adaptation calls for using learning to inform adjustments during project implementation. This requires information gathering methods that promote reflection, learning, and adaption, beyond reporting on pre-specified data. A focus on adaptation changes traditional thinking about program cycle. It both erases the boundaries between design, implementation, and evaluation and reframes thinking to consider the complexity of development problems and nonlinear change pathways.Supportive management structures and processes are crucial for fostering adaptive management. Implementers and donors are experimenting with how procurement, contracting, work planning, and reporting can be modified to foster adaptive programming. Well-designed monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems can go beyond meeting accountability and reporting requirements to produce data and learning for evidence-based decision making and adaptive management. It is important to continue experimenting and learning to integrate adaptive programming and management into the operational policies and practices of donor agencies, country partners, and implementers. We need to devote ongoing effort to build the evidence base for the contributions of adaptive management to achieving international development results.

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Tofaris, Elizabeth, ed. ESRC-FCDO Research for Policy and Practice: Education Accountability Relationships Between Schools, Communities, and Government in India. REAL Centre, University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative, septiembre de 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii353.

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Cilliers, Jacobus, Brahm Fleisch, Janeli Kotzé, Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, Stephen Taylor y Tshegofatso Thulare. Can Virtual Replace In-person Coaching? Experimental Evidence on Teacher Professional Development and Student Learning in South Africa. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), enero de 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2020/050.

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Virtual communication holds the promise of enabling low-cost professional development at scale, but the benefits of in-person interaction might be difficult to replicate. We report on an experiment in South Africa comparing on-site with virtual coaching of public primary school teachers. After three years, on-site coaching improved students' English oral language and reading proficiency (0.31 and 0.13 SD, respectively). Virtual coaching had a smaller impact on English oral language proficiency (0.12 SD), no impact on English reading proficiency, and an unintended negative effect on home language literacy. Classroom observations show that on-site coaching improved teaching practices, and virtual coaching led to larger crowding-out of home language teaching time. Implementation and survey data suggest technology itself was not a barrier to implementation, but rather that in-person contact enabled more accountability and support.

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Enfield, Sue. Promoting Gender Equality in the Eastern Neighbourhood Region. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), marzo de 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.063.

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This helpdesk report synthesises evidence on the drivers and opportunities for promoting gender equality in the Eastern Neighbourhood region. Although equality between women and men is enshrined in the constitutions and legal systems of all Eastern Neighbourhood countries, and all countries have ratified most of the important international conventions in this area without reservations; women are still subject to social discrimination. Discriminatory laws, social norms, and practices rooted in patriarchal systems inherited from the Soviet era have negative consequences and act as drags upon gender equality. Former Soviet states making the transition from a command economy to a market-driven system need to make changes in governance and accountability systems to allow for women to have agency and to benefit from any nominal status of gender equality. This report considers areas where there are outstanding opportunities to improve women’s situation in Eastern Neighbourhood countries.

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Coulson, Saskia, Melanie Woods, Drew Hemment y Michelle Scott. Report and Assessment of Impact and Policy Outcomes Using Community Level Indicators: H2020 Making Sense Report. University of Dundee, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001192.

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Making Sense is a European Commission H2020 funded project which aims at supporting participatory sensing initiatives that address environmental challenges in areas such as noise and air pollution. The development of Making Sense was informed by previous research on a crowdfunded open source platform for environmental sensing, SmartCitizen.me, developed at the Fab Lab Barcelona. Insights from this research identified several deterrents for a wider uptake of participatory sensing initiatives due to social and technical matters. For example, the participants struggled with the lack of social interactions, a lack of consensus and shared purpose amongst the group, and a limited understanding of the relevance the data had in their daily lives (Balestrini et al., 2014; Balestrini et al., 2015). As such, Making Sense seeks to explore if open source hardware, open source software and and open design can be used to enhance data literacy and maker practices in participatory sensing. Further to this, Making Sense tests methodologies aimed at empowering individuals and communities through developing a greater understanding of their environments and by supporting a culture of grassroot initiatives for action and change. To do this, Making Sense identified a need to underpin sensing with community building activities and develop strategies to inform and enable those participating in data collection with appropriate tools and skills. As Fetterman, Kaftarian and Wanderman (1996) state, citizens are empowered when they understand evaluation and connect it in a way that it has relevance to their lives. Therefore, this report examines the role that these activities have in participatory sensing. Specifically, we discuss the opportunities and challenges in using the concept of Community Level Indicators (CLIs), which are measurable and objective sources of information gathered to complement sensor data. We describe how CLIs are used to develop a more indepth understanding of the environmental problem at hand, and to record, monitor and evaluate the progress of change during initiatives. We propose that CLIs provide one way to move participatory sensing beyond a primarily technological practice and towards a social and environmental practice. This is achieved through an increased focus in the participants’ interests and concerns, and with an emphasis on collective problem solving and action. We position our claims against the following four challenge areas in participatory sensing: 1) generating and communicating information and understanding (c.f. Loreto, 2017), 2) analysing and finding relevance in data (c.f. Becker et al., 2013), 3) building community around participatory sensing (c.f. Fraser et al., 2005), and 4) achieving or monitoring change and impact (c.f. Cheadle et al., 2000). We discuss how the use of CLIs can tend to these challenges. Furthermore, we report and assess six ways in which CLIs can address these challenges and thereby support participatory sensing initiatives: i. Accountability ii. Community assessment iii. Short-term evaluation iv. Long-term evaluation v. Policy change vi. Capability The report then returns to the challenge areas and reflects on the learnings and recommendations that are gleaned from three Making Sense case studies. Afterwhich, there is an exposition of approaches and tools developed by Making Sense for the purposes of advancing participatory sensing in this way. Lastly, the authors speak to some of the policy outcomes that have been realised as a result of this research.

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