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Thomas Carothers, McKenzie Carrier
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Social Accountability for Development Impact
Accountability is not a passing fad in the development lexicon but rather the driving idea in twenty-first century development work.
Published on May 19, 2016
Source: Global Partnership for Social Accountabilty
Carnegie’s Thomas Carothers delivered the keynote address to the 2016 Global Partners Forum at the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Social Accountability. In front of 300 participants, Carothers explained how work and thinking related to accountability has moved into a second generation and what the implications are of this recent shift.
In his address, he touched upon social accountability’s historic progress toward becoming an increasingly strategic and indispensable component of effective development. “Accountability is the driving idea in twenty-first century development; whether and how the development field proves able to make a meaningful contribution to accountability is central to whether the development field will stay relevant in the decades ahead,” Carothers said.
The keynote address was original broadcast by the Global Partnership for Social Accountabilty.
About the Author
Thomas Carothers
Harvey V. Fineberg Chair for Democracy Studies; Director, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Thomas Carothers, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, is a leading expert on comparative democratization and international support for democracy.
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