Social accountability in situations of conflict and fragility
Document Type:
Briefing
Document Status:
Peer reviewed
Open / Free access
Author:
Schouten, C.
Publication Year:
2011
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Citation:
Schouten, C. Social accountability in situations of conflict and fragility. U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, CMI, Bergen, Norway (2011) 4 pp. [U4 Brief, December 2011, No 19]
Regions:
South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Western Africa
Countries:
Afghanistan, Liberia, Timor-Leste
Summary:
Donor support to social accountability in fragile and conflict-affected states is a relatively new phenomenon. It has emerged with the lessons that top-down anti-corruption approaches have often failed and different approaches are needed to improve state accountability to its people. With increasing support to fragile and conflict-affected states, donors should focus their efforts to: identify and support local accountability measures; strengthen partnerships across sectors, as well as demographic and geographic divides; and support collaborative governance and capacity building to strengthen the social contract between state and society in the wake of crisis.