New Paper on Social Accountability Available Online
Josh Lerner from the Participatory Budgeting Network (www.particpatorybudgeting.org) just sent out information on a paper that compares different examples of public and social accountability measures across the world. The OECD / World Bank paper “Beyond Public Scrutiny: a stocktaking of social accountability initiatives in OECD countries” profiles 40 government accountability programs, including interesting examples of participatory budgeting in Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the UK. You can download it from : www.zebralog.net/open/BeyondPublicScrutinycoverandtext.pdf.
Sandy Heierbacher co-founded the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) with Andy Fluke in 2002, with the 60 volunteers and 50 organizations who worked together to plan NCDD’s first national conference. She served as NCDD's Executive Director between 2002 and 2018. Click here for a list of articles and resources authored by Sandy.
