Curated collection of must reads on accountability
This is a collection of recommended readings on accountability in development cooperation and related areas. Please feel free to send suggestions regarding other readings that you would like to see included here to dcf@un.org
MDG Gap Task Force Report 2014. This annual report tracks delivery on commitments listed under Millennium Development Goal 8—on the global partnership for development— including aid, trade, debt relief, access to essential medicines and access to new technologies.
National aid Policies: Key pillars for mutual accountability. This guidance note for development cooperation practitioners and stakeholders, commissioned by the Inter-Parliamentarian Union (IPU), raises awareness among all stakeholders of the need to advocate the adoption of aid policies, to participate in their implementation, and to take measures to strengthen mutual accountability.
Report of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing. This report assesses the sustainable development financing needs, current financing flows and potential sources of financing and presents a strategic approach, including policy options to strengthen the basic categories of financial resource mobilization available. It presents a key input to the conceptualization of monitoring and accountability systems post-2015.
The Post-2015 UN Development Agenda. This briefing paper, prepared by José Antonio Ocampo for the Future United Nations Development system series, stresses that, independent from what shape the post-2015 agenda will take, its success will depend on a strong intergovernmental partnership for development and a system of accountability and effective monitoring.
Effective development co-operation: an important enabler in a post-2015 global development framework. This reflection paper outlines ways in which the effectiveness of development co-operation can be deepened as part of a post-2015 global development framework and how new approaches to partnership can be promoted.
International Aid Transparency Initiative Annual Report 2014. This second report outlines progress of members on meeting agreed monitoring commitments since 2013, recognizes partner country progress and discusses where improvements in transparency of development cooperation is needed.
STATE OF CIVIL SOCIETY 2013: Creating an enabling environment. This second CIVICUS report introduces the enabling environment index as an indicator in the Busan Global Monitoring Process.
Commitment to Development Index. This Center for Global Development index ranks key developed countries on policies affecting poorer nations. It is a key effort to promote policy coherence with areas such as trade, security, or investment transparency.
Guidelines for Effective Philanthropic Engagement (GEPEs). These voluntary guidelines identify contours for the collaboration of foundations with governments, promoting broader understanding of the comparative advantages of foundations as development actors.
Private Sector Transparency and Post 2015. This Save the Children paper highlights mandatory corporate reporting on non-financial performance as a potential indicator for the private sector in a development framework post-2015, building on current reporting arrangements of companies.
Measuring the quality of aid: QuODA Second Edition. This brief explains, and tries to fill, the analysis gap of aid quality, building on its first edition. Data and results are available on the QuODA.
The Community Score Card. This participatory toolkit shows how to help assess, plan, monitor and evaluate services by bringing together service users and their providers, to positively influence the quality, efficiency and accountability for results at different levels.