Powershift, Decolonisation and Anti-Racism: the Role of Dynamic Accountability and the Accountable Now Membership
SHARE THIS ARTICLE BACK TO INSIGHTS The powershift is becoming a more familiar term across the civil society sector as individuals and organisations embrace changes in the way that power and resources are distributed. For so long, the understanding of what power is, has been defined and led by western organisations and institutions. Yet […]
Accountable Now presents at the OECD Civil Society Days: making CSO effectiveness and accountability work in times of crisis and beyond
SHARE THIS ARTICLE BACK TO INSIGHTS On 2 June 2021, Accountable Now joined civil society actors, donors and governance leaders in the OECD DAC’s Civil Society Days. The technical virtual workshop, ‘Towards building forward better together: finding solutions to enable civil society’ brought together a variety of actors who shared their insights and experiences to […]
Implementing Internal Accountability Practices Within the Accountable Now Membership
SHARE THIS ARTICLE BACK TO INSIGHTS This blog was reposted from the Global Standard website. See the original article here. Complementing the previous posts on Accountable Now members’ examples around practices related to the Global Standard for CSO Accountability cluster A and cluster B commitments, we will be sharing examples from our members concerning practices associated with the […]
Five Ways CSOs Can Strengthen Their Accountability to the Environment on Earth Day
SHARE THIS ARTICLE BACK TO INSIGHTS The 22nd April marks the yearly event Earth Day: an international day dedicated to protesting and advocating for the protection of Earth and its natural environment. There are many days throughout the year that bring attention to the environment and climate crisis, but Earth Day has been one […]
Accountability to Affected Populations in Times of the Pandemic: publication of the South Asia Disaster.net journal
SHARE THIS ARTICLE BACK TO INSIGHTS The civil society sector is experiencing a pressure and strain unlike it has experienced before, under the COVID-19 pandemic. To explore how the sector has responded, engaged and acted this past year, the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute and Accountable Now have published a special accountability issue of AIDMI’s […]
The Global Standard: Going Global, Acting Local
SHARE THIS ARTICLE BACK TO INSIGHTS This article was originally published on CDA’s From Where I Stand learning forum. Civil society organisations (CSOs) practising a different kind of accountability towards their stakeholders is at the heart of the Global Standard’s mission and purpose. The kind of accountability where an organisation answers to the people who […]
Five ways CSOs can be accountable on International Women’s Day
At Accountable Now we advocate and push for our members – a range of NGOs operating at regional and international levels – to see accountability as a means to transform the civil society sector and build trust. We continually see how they have embraced change, and dynamic and inclusive processes which give control and power […]
Embracing change while adjusting to evolving contexts
This blog was reposted from the Global Standard website. See the original article here. Change is at the heart of any civil society organization, both in terms of its own sustainability (internal change) as well as for measuring its effectiveness (external change). At Accountable Now we ask our members to ensure that the change they seek […]
The role of principles and values in CSO accountability
Reposted from the Global Standard website. See the original article here. For civil society organizations to be truly accountable, they need to lead by example: promoting and fighting for the protection of human rights, ensuring that principles of do-no-harm guide program and project work and prioritizing activities that are guided by sustainability values will help […]
Rebuilding civil society
This is a repost of Bonnie Koenig’s article on Going International. Find the original article here. Recently I had the opportunity to co-create, host and facilitate the annual workshop of Accountable Now. We used many of the approaches that we have developed through the Testing Change project as the farming for the workshop. The approaches we used included: […]
