Accountability

In ethics and governance, accountability is answerability, blameworthiness, liability, and the expectation of account-giving. As in an aspect of governance, it has been central to discussions related to problems in the public sector, nonprofit and private (corporate) and individual contexts. In leadership roles, accountability is the acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility for actions, products, decisions, and policies including the administration, governance, and implementation within the scope of the role or employment position and encompassing the obligation to report, explain and be answerable for resulting consequences. In governance, accountability has expanded beyond the basic definition of "being called to account for …

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CSA: Canadian Standards Association · 17 May 2024

As we continue to grow and expand, we will strengthen the environmental lens we apply to the design and development of our operations with a focus on minimizing our use …

Engagement 65 - Awards and Recognition 22 - Accountability 66 - Donations and Community Support 23 - Path to ensure that we operate with transparency, accountability, and the highest levels of integrity to meet U R E T O A H I G H E R S T A N D A R D 21 Accountability CSA Group management, under the supervision organizational commitments with the utmost transparency, accountability, and integrity. Board Governance Effective


MUHC: McGill University Health Centre Technology Assessment Unit · 16 May 2024 English

The object of the present by-law is to establish the operating rules of the UC. [...] Accomplish these tasks by liaising with the administration (UC only), the management, and the …

autonomy bestowed by the Act; 4.1.6. Ensure accountability of members of the UC or Advocacy Subcommittees


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Political activist ethnography is a research strategy that reveals how ruling regimes are organized so activists and social movements can fight them. This volume adopts an approach to inquiry that …

their PAE research following the principles of accountability, utility, accessibility, reciprocity, and reflexivity work are accountability, utility, accessibility, reciprocity, and reflexivity. Accountability The first first guiding principle of my research is accountability, which did more than require that there was a establish a form of “dual accountability” (Cancain 1993, 94): accountability to both the academy and research. Also, in the spirit of reciproc- ity and accountability, I created a research archive (including recordings


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 14 May 2024 English

In every sphere of life, division and intolerance has polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is …

understanding through reconciliation, justice, and accountability. Finally, the religious stud- ies approach


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Migration Governance in North America engages the complex dynamics of mobilities across the continent. Situating North America within the global migration landscape, it unpacks such issues as temporary labour mobility, …

perspective, Bada and Gleeson’s collection, Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America Bada, Xóchitl, and Shannon Gleeson, eds. 2019. Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America


CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 13 May 2024 English

funding provided through the RFP will be in the form of a grant or a contract, and what kind of accountability is expected from successful applicants. [...] Question 4, Received May 8, 2024 Question: Will

of a grant or a contract, and what kind of accountability is expected from successful applicants. Answer: of a grant or a contract, and what kind of accountability is expected from successful applicants. Answer:


BCCLA: BC Civil Liberties Association · 13 May 2024 French

Untitled Le 13 mai 2024 À : Justin Trudeau, premier ministre du Canada Dominic LeBlanc, ministre de la Sécurité publique Marc Miller, ministre de l’Immigration, des Réfugiés et de la …

Québécoise des avocats et 24. Circles of Support and Accountability avocates en droit de l’immigration (CoSA) Canada


LCO: Law Commission of Ontario · 10 May 2024 English

More specifically, the project considers how to update traditional consumer protections such as notice and disclosure requirements, deception and unconscionability rules, and consumer enforcement in light of the new, complex, …

we often have no idea • Improve oversight, accountability, and access to what we’re consenting to—and to improve • California’s 2022 Social Media Accountability and consumer protection in the digital marketplace marketplace. enactment of the Social Media Accountability and For example, a ToS registry could: Transparency ” in P. Rott (ed.), Certification – Trust, Accountability, Liability, Studies in European Economic Law ” in Rott, P. (eds) Certification – Trust, Accountability, Liability. Studies in European Economic Law


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 10 May 2024 English

the final stages of the Uruguay Round of the The explicit mention of article 10bis of the Paris World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. [...] The of action for the holders …

centred on AI. Its widespread transparency and accountability in AI systems influence has led to a mix of lacks a clear protection and exception and accountability in AI systems. These concepts framework for demonstrates how expansive and how can we ensure accountability? What are protection impedes the drive for necessary tools, systems and measures? and accountability in AI. It argues that the current legal framework initiatives aimed at enhancing transparency and accountability. Secrets Trade secrets are increasingly being


IRPP: Institut de recherche en politiques publiques · 9 May 2024 English

This initiative began with the creation of the National Literacy Secretariat (NLS) in 1987 and the International Literacy Year in 1990 and continued well into the mid-2000s.6 At the time, …

English as a Second Language and literacy, and accountability and public trust. The institutes served as 2004) n Measures of Success: Assessment and Accountability in Adult Basic Education (Campbell, 2007) n (2007). Measures of success: Assessment and accountability in adult basic education. Grass Roots Press From community development and partnerships to accountability: The case of the National Literacy Secretariat


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