Publishing Institution:

Accountability Research Center (ARC), American University

The Accountability Research Center (ARC) is based in American University’s School of International Service. We collaborate with our partners to contribute to global thinking on how to improve public accountability and build more inclusive societies.
Visit Site

Resources:

• January 01, 2024 Disentangling Government Responses: How Do We Know When Accountability Work Is Gaining Traction?
  By: Jonathan Fox, Brendan Halloran, Alta Fölscher, Rosie McGee
• December 01, 2023 Community Health Workers as Rights Defenders: Exploring the Collective Identity of the Mitanins of Chhattisgarh, India
  By: Shriyuta Abhishek, Samir Garg
• November 01, 2023 Farmer Movement Oversight of Mexican Government Agricultural Programs
  By: Jonathan Fox, Carlos García Jiménez
• September 01, 2023 Building Worker Power in Global Supply Chains: Lessons from Apparel, Cocoa, and Seafood
  By: Judy Gearhart
• June 01, 2023 Activating Spaces, Scaling Up Voices: Community-based Monitoring and Planning of Health Services in Maharashtra, India
  By: Abhay Shukla, Shweta Marathe, Deepali Yakkundi, Trupti Malti, Jonathan Fox
• March 01, 2023 Local Voices, Global Action: Transnational Organizing in Apparel Supply Chains
  By: Judy Gearhart
• March 01, 2023 Local Voices, Global Action: Transnational Organizing in Apparel Supply Chains
  By: Judy Gearhart
• January 01, 2023 Moving on Up: Multilevel Monitoring and Advocacy for Health Rights
  By: Abrehet Gebremedhin
• July 01, 2022 The Ethnic Chapter of Colombia’s Peace Agreement Five Years On: An Independent Assessment
  By: Helmer Eduardo Quiñones Mendoza
• April 01, 2022 Heroes on Strike: Trends in Global Health Worker Protests During COVID-19
  By: Sorcha A. Brophy, Veena Sriram, Haotian Zong, Chloei Andres, Maria Paz Mawyin, Narayanan GL
• January 01, 2022 El control social en Colombia: Un balance sobre las veedurías ciudadanas
  By: Mariana Cepeda Villarreal, Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia
• January 01, 2022 Accountability Keywords
  By: Jonathan Fox
• June 01, 2021 How Do World Bank Staff Perceive the Institutional Environment for Building Citizen Engagement into Projects?
  By: Rachel Nadelman
• February 01, 2021 Bottom-up Accountability in Uganda: Learning from People-centered, Multi-level Health Advocacy Campaigns
  By: Angela Bailey, Vincent Mujune, Prima Kazoora
• December 01, 2020 Picturing Accountability: What We Learned from the Photography of the Rana Plaza Disaster
  By: Ismail Ferdous, Naomi Hossain
• October 01, 2020 From Peoples' Struggles to Public Policy: The Institutionalization of the Bhilwara Framework of Social Accountability in India
  By: Rakshita Swamy, Aruna Roy
• August 01, 2020 Citizen Participation in Latin America’s Supreme Audit Institutions: Progress or Impasse?
  By: Marcos Mendiburu
• April 01, 2020 Defending the Right to Health in Guatemala: Reflections of Two Indigenous Women on the Frontlines
  By: Benilda Batzin, Paulina Culum, Julia Fischer-Mackey
• December 01, 2019 The Women of Caltongo Who Opened the Government’s Doors: Social Accountability at the Edge of Mexico City
  By: Daniela Rea
• November 01, 2019 Educational Accountability or Social Accountability in Education? Similarities, Tensions, and Differences
  By: Felipe J. Hevia, Samana Vergara-Lope
• July 01, 2019 Movement-building for Accountability: Learning from Indonesian Women’s Organizing
  By: Nani Zulminarni, Valerie Miller, Alexa Bradley, Angela Bailey, Jonathan Fox
• May 01, 2019 Setting the Stage for Increased Accountability: The White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria Campaign to Improve Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health in Niger State
  By: Rachel Sullivan Robinson
• April 01, 2019 Pitfalls of Aiming to Empower the Bottom from the Top: The Case of Philippine Participatory Budgeting
  By: Joy Aceron
• February 01, 2019 Citizen Experiences and Challenges in Bringing Transparency and Accountability to Local Governments in Southern Mexico
  By: Carlos García Jiménez
• October 01, 2018 Movement-building for Accountability: Learning from Indonesian Women’s Organizing
  By: Nani Zulminarni, Valerie Miller, Alexa Bradley, Angela Bailey, Jonathan Fox
• August 01, 2018 Learning to Sustain Change: Mitanin Community Health Workers Promote Public Accountability in India
  By: Samir Garg, Suchi Pande
• June 01, 2018 How a Community-Led Response to Sexual Exploitation in Uganda Led to Systemic World Bank Reform
  By: Elana Berger
• February 01, 2018 How Can Evidence Bolster Citizen Action? Learning and Adapting for Accountable Public Health in Guatemala
  By: Walter Flores
• December 01, 2017 Following the Money in Ghana: From the Grassroots to the Hallways of the IMF
  By: Abdulkarim Mohammed
• December 01, 2017 From the Ground Up: Multi-Level Accountability Politics in Land Reform in the Philippines
  By: Francis Isaac, Danilo Carranza, Joy Aceron
• September 01, 2017 Citizen Oversight and India’s Right to Work Program: What Do the Social Auditors Say?
  By: Suchi Pande, Rakesh R. Dubbudu