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.