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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Fraser Institute · 31 January 2025 English

The findings in Thinking About Poverty: Helping the Poor; What are the options? demonstrate that employment-based policies provide a more lasting solution to poverty than redistributionist government programs such as …

reduce fraud and misuse and thereby improve accountability. Specifically, having for-profit and non-profit needs and governments sought efficiency and accountability for public monies spent. However, over the recommendations relating to effect- iveness and accountability of Ontario Works (social assistance) had shown system that could improve effectiveness and accountability (pointing to successes of privatized portions


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 31 January 2025 English

This publication outlines gender-responsive mining policies that support skills, employment, and inclusive governance in Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritania, and South Africa.

procurement practices and outcomes helps maintain accountability and enable continual improvements. Kinross’s


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 22 January 2025 English

A special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on “Emotions and the Affective Politics of Incarceration.”

concerned about individual and collective accountability for harms done and we wish to live in a safer


CLD: Centre for Law and Democracy · 20 January 2025 English

the touchstone of all the freedoms to which the United Nations is consecrated.18 The UN Human Rights Committee, the independent body of experts established to monitor and oversee implementation of …

free public debate and the scrutiny and hence accountability of officials and other powerful social actors Financial Independence, Powers and Competence, and Accountability. The way in which members are appointed to be accountable to the public but that such accountability should be achieved in a manner that does not


CHRC: Canadian Human Rights Commission · 17 January 2025 French

(extrajudicial sanction) or by any other title, by or under an Act of the legislature of a province or by the lieutenant governor in council of a service de messagerie …

cet égard; ters responsibility and ensures accountability que la société canadienne doit avoir un système réinsertion sociale, (ii) fair and proportionate accountability that is (ii) une responsabilité juste et proportionnelle


CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 11 January 2025 English

Our recommendations address the following areas: supporting more families with child care costs, expanding support for independent education, reviewing post-secondary education funding to better serve working-class Albertans, redirecting gambling revenues …

include certain conditions to ensure taxpayer accountability and to meet space-creation goals. Several tracks


Pathways to Prosperity · 11 January 2025 English

Page 3 of 18 POSITIVE INDIGENOUS-IMMIGRANT RELATIONS AND UNDERSTANDING Name of Practice / Name and Type of Program Lead Organization(s) Link(s) Description of Practice Tags Overview and Goals: • Indigenous …

racism is learned and legitimized 4. Settler accountability, allyship, and organizational change 5. What transparent, and supportive, and includes accountability for commitments to RAP actions and deliverables


IHRP: International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto · 10 January 2025 English

In assessing proposed student-initiated fellowships, the IHRP considers the following aspects in particular: the host organization, the proposal, the student’s strengths and interests, and the student’s professionalism in all dealings …

ca/travelling/advisories that prioritise corporate accountability, Indigenous rights, and/or climate justice international human rights commitments by ensuring accountability of its harms across the globe and those of social movements in the areas of corporate accountability, climate justice, and Indigenous rights. The


Fraser Institute · 10 January 2025 English

Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations will require all provinces to fully “decarbonize” their electricity generation as part of the federal government’s broader “Net Zero 2050” greenhouse gas emissions mitigation plan. Ontario’s …

future” (Cross, 2020). As the Ontario Financial Accountability Office (FAO) notes: The HST rebate and adjusting bor- rowed funds. (FAO, 2017) The Financial Accountability Office estimated the two rate cuts instituted .pdf>, as of September 27, 2024. Financial Accountability Office of Ontario [FAO] (2017). Fair Hydro


Alberta Teachers' Association · 10 January 2025 English

energy production in the US and favourite scapegoat, Justin Trudeau Answer: In the last issue of the ATA This was heightened with the passage no shortage of commercial interests and …

of work to teachers’ SDATs function more as accountability responsibilities, all while they adapt to a (ELLs) and Insufficient training and inadequate accountability metrics that are seen reported that they received


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