
According to the World Bank, Social Accountability is "an approach towards building accountability that relies on civic engagement, i.e. in which it is ordinary citizens and/or civil society organizations who participate directly or indirectly in exacting accountability." In this series of presentations Russell Wildeman of IDASA and Blanche Sonon of Social Watch Benin, describe various social accountability tools, or mechanisms that citizens and civil society organizations can use to increase accountability.




