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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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles …

untouched by humans.37 Lacking reci- procity and accountability, such false ideas about the relationship between explanation suggests that Ells is trying to avoid accountability for a process in which he participated not


ULCC: Uniform Law Conference of Canada · 27 September 2024 English

RESOLVED: THAT the report of the working group on Drafting Conventions be accepted; and THAT the Drafting Conventions be adopted; and THAT, having adopted the Drafting Conventions, the ULCC recognizes …

should be studied: • Financial reporting and accountability; • Responsibility of volunteers and their liabilities; Federally, it would make sense in terms of accountability – to see how the grant funding given out is


Alberta Water Council · 26 September 2024 English

management (by 2022) and identify barriers and opportunities to improve capacity, governance, and accountability (by 2024) for achieving the Water for Life goal of healthy aquatic ecosystems. [...] The team

opportunities to improve capacity, governance, and accountability (by 2024) for achieving the Water for Life


Fraser Institute · 26 September 2024 English

The federal government has introduced three new social programs since 2021, increasing permanent spending. This analysis investigates if the media questioned whether the government’s new programs observed its own fiscal …

for open government, for transparency and accountability—for real change, if you will” (Stevens, 2015)


Alberta Water Council · 26 September 2024 English

They form the basis for a multitude of operational tools and mechanisms that have been developed under the Alberta Wetland Policy, and represent a significant driver in recent conversations between …

procedures have been developed to support system accountability and enable tracking of the policy goal/outcomes


IHE: Institute of Health Economics · 26 September 2024 English

Rapid advances in surgical and catheter techniques over the last two decades improve quality of life and survival in individuals receiving these therapies.4 Awareness of HVD and coordination of care …

concentrate on diagnostic triage & follow-up accountability. • Clear roles and responsibilities should responsible for diagnostic triage and follow-up accountability. This might start with some form of voluntary Reliability around timeliness should exist through accountability arrangements between cardiac specialists and


C.D. Howe Institute · 23 September 2024 English

Devastating wildfires and floods this year have highlighted the risks arising from the lack of public accountability for natural assets in Canada. [...] However, over-consumption of open access, seemingly “free”

highlighted the risks arising from the lack of public accountability for natural assets in Canada. Recognizing these


Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia · 23 September 2024 English

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Language. Literacy 1. MacPherson P. The end of accountability in British Columbia high school student performance fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/end-of-accountability-in-bc-high-school-student- performance.pdf fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/end-of-accountability-in-bc-high-school-student-performance.pdf# fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/end-of-accountability-in-bc-high-school-student-performance.pdf# fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/end-of-accountability-in-bc-high-school-student-performance.pdf#


Yellowhead Institute · 23 September 2024 English

Report to the Attorney General: Public inquiry into the deaths of Constance Brenda J Justice and Attorney General. [...] Report to the Attorney General: Public inquiry into the deaths of …

not considered human. We for justice, action, accountability, and change. We have exist on the margins – forward: The Royal Commission on the Donald accountability; not stalling, debating, delaying, Marshall


CHRC: Canadian Human Rights Commission · 20 September 2024 English

21 Introduction to Info Source Info Source describes the programs and activities, and the information holdings related to programs and activities, of government institutions subject to the Access to Information …

foster informed decision making; facilitate accountability, transparency and collaboration; and preserve


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