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Accountability Research Center
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Accountability Research Center bridges research & grassroots perspectives to learn from & inform strategies to improve public and corporate accountability. Based at American University, Washington DC. https://accountabilityresearch.org/
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Feb 17
At ARC, we work with our partners to advance accountable governance reforms. We provide technical & analytical accompaniment for research, learning, & strategy. We seek spaces where we can support power shifts towards more #accountability, #transparency & #participation accountabilityresearch.org
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · 8d
What would it take to shift civic engagement to the center of the World Bank’s development model? New analysis from Lindsay Coates & Rachel Nadelman looks at the Bank's strategic framework for civic & citizen engagement & asks what's at stake.
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The World Bank’s Civic Test
The World Bank is considering Citizens at the Center, a new framework that seeks to move civic engagement from a procedural add-on to a core part of development, with CSOs as partners and community pa...
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · 22d
Twenty social organization leaders - seven working languages - three days of learning together in Choachí, Colombia. Sharing strategies on how to encourage governments to listen and deliver effectively to all citizens. Reflections, analysis, action to come. Watch this space!
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · 23d
This International Day of Democracy: a vision of parliaments as capable of listening, adapting, and co-governing with citizens. @idahknowles.bsky.social discusses how the open parliament idea plays out in African democracies. English: bit.ly/44wrbJ9 French: bit.ly/3HMux3p
Open Parliaments for Inclusive and Participatory Oversight in Africa - Accountability Research Center
How are advocates of open parliaments redefining openness as an evolving process that centers equity, participation, and institutional responsiveness?
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · 23d
This International Day of Democracy: a vision of parliaments as capable of listening, adapting, and co-governing with citizens. @idahknowles.bsky.social discusses how the open parliament idea plays out in African democracies. English: bit.ly/44wrbJ9 French: bit.ly/3JrVBp9n
Open Parliaments for Inclusive and Participatory Oversight in Africa - Accountability Research Center
How are advocates of open parliaments redefining openness as an evolving process that centers equity, participation, and institutional responsiveness?
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Sep 3
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Quand la Réactivité devient-elle Synonyme de Redevabilité? - Accountability Research Center
Le blog de Jonathan Fox réfléchit à la manière dont nous savons quand les stratégies visant à promouvoir la redevabilité obtiennent une réponse significative.
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Sep 3
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Quando a Responsividade Resulta em Responsabilização? - Accountability Research Center
O blog de Jonathan Fox reflete sobre como sabemos quando as estratégias para promover a responsabilidade estão recebendo uma resposta significativa.
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Sep 3
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De cumplir a rendir cuentas - Accountability Research Center
El blog de Jonathan Fox reflexiona sobre cómo sabemos cuándo las estrategias para promover la rendición de cuentas están funcionando.
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Sep 3
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐀𝐝𝐝 𝐔𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲? When those in power appear to listen to citizen voices, how can we make sense of their responses? @jonathanfox707.bsky.social's new blog proposes 3 categories: response, responsiveness, & accountable responsiveness. English: bit.ly/4mREn2Y
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Sep 1
Find news of our latest publications, events and practitioner reflections on accountability work in our July-August newsletter

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Citizen Action and Legislative Oversight in the Philippines | Fisher Organizing in Ghana | Whistleblower Protection in Mexico
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Aug 26
Nouveau blog: «Des parlements ouverts pour un contrôle inclusif et participatif en Afrique» @idahknowles.bsky.social #parlementsouverts doivent devenir des espaces d’apprentissage, où les parlementaires écoutent réellement, s’adaptent et co-gouvernent avec les citoyens. Lisez ici :
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Des Parlements Ouverts pour un Contrôle Inclusif et Participatif en Afrique - Accountability Research Center
Comment les défenseurs des parlements ouverts redéfinissent-ils l'ouverture comme un processus évolutif centré sur l'équité, la participation et la réceptivité institutionnelle?
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American University School of International Service @ausis.bsky.social · Aug 25
The School of International Service is currently inviting applications for three tenure-track assistant professor positions beginning August 1, 2026. 🧵 ⬇️ #AcademicSky
SIS is hiring
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Aug 26
What's needed for meaningful civil society engagement in budget processes? In her new op-ed for @rappler.bsky.social, Joy Aceron offers three guiding principles for truly impactful civil society participation
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[OPINION] How can civil society have a truly meaningful engagement in the budget process?
Here are three important guideposts to achieve that goal
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Aug 19
"The climate emergency is real in Nepal ... but despite some important efforts to drive change, climate finance and decision-making is not citizen centric." This blog suggests pathways for moving towards climate finance and policy that's more accountable to young people
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International Transport Workers' Federation @itfglobalunion.bsky.social · Jul 30
The ITF Fishers' Rights Network and Kesatuan Pelaut Indonesia signed an agreement in Jakarta yesterday to continue and expand our joint work in the fisheries sector.

The agreement solidifies a vital partnership for the ITF's Global Justice for Fishers campaign www.justiceforfishers.org
Home - ITF Fisheries
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Jul 31
ARC & Fisheries Governance Project, organized a Fisher Learning Exchange in Ghana. Participants included representatives from unions, fisher associations, fish processor associations & fishery management organizations. Rea communique bit.ly/4ffEOkE
Fisherman sitting in fishing canoe on the beach
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Jul 28
During a meeting with ARC and partners, Ghana's Fisheries Minister emphasized that Ghana’s progress in fisheries governance will be best sustained through broad partnerships and inclusive policymaking. Read more: ghextractives.com/fisheries-mi...
Fisheries Minister Emelia Arthur engages Accountability Research Centre on sector reforms - Gh Extractives
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, July 24, the Minister shared details of the engagement, which took place at her office the previous day.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · Jul 23
The Anti-Corruption Tracker is live! This interactive, regularly updated resource catalogs how U.S. oversight systems are being dismantled—from watchdog firings to weakened enforcement. Follow the erosion, action by action.

Explore the tracker here:
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The Anti-Corruption Tracker: Mapping the Erosion of Oversight and Accountability
This Anti-Corruption Tracker focuses on the erosion or dismantling of oversight and accountability systems within the United States Executive Branch
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Jul 21
New Accountability Note! How can civil society network and an official state oversight body interface for a shared agenda of systemic education reform? Joy Aceron and Abrehet Gebremedhin share a case study from the Philippines bit.ly/4f3yVHm
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Guillermo M. Cejudo @gmocejudo.bsky.social · Jan 17
Full article: Farmer movement oversight of the Mexican Government’s scaled-up fertilizer program

Jonathan Fox & Carlos García Jiménez

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Farmer movement oversight of the Mexican Government’s scaled-up fertilizer program
How can national policies to promote food self-sufficiency also enable agroecological transitions? Mexico’s recent agricultural policy priorities shifted from larger, irrigated farmers to focus mai...
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Jul 16
"𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗶𝘀𝗵"
New LaborLinkPod episode on complex dynamics in Ghana's fishing sector. Which orgs represent small-scale fishers & work to bring their views to the policy table? bit.ly/3UejeDt
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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 15
Our new #ObserverSummer25 is out now🚀

This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇

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Summer 2025 - Bretton Woods Project
This edition covers the Jubilee Year 2025 and calls at FfD4 to break the cycle of debt, IMF's Surveillance review, IDA21 package, Argentina, Sri Lanka and the IMF, and more.
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Jul 15
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆-𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿-𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁. Taking stock of USAID’s past efforts could inform future locally-led approaches by international donors. New article Jeff Hallock, @jonathanfox707.bsky.social, Nick Chen: bit.ly/3GNowTt
USAID's Locally‐Led Development Agenda: Open Government and Independent Monitoring
USAID's ambitious localization agenda between 2021–2024—suspended in early 2025—aimed to provide more funding for local organizations, strengthen local systems, and co-create with local communities. ...
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Jul 8
Three years ago Carlos Guerrero Orozco described a new Mexican government program for protecting whistleblowers. His update documents rollback and reflects on new systems currently under development.
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Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hace 3 años, Carlos Guerrero Orozco describía un nuevo programa del Gobierno mexicano para proteger a los denunciantes. En la actualización de ese blog, documenta los retrocesos y reflexiona sobre los nuevos sistemas que se están desarrollando actualmente. bit.ly/46xg9pw
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