Social Accountability and Civic Engagement

Duration 6 Weeks

Effort 8-10 hr/Week

Fee INR 3000 / USD 50

Start Date Registration Open

Institution PRIA

Language English

Location Virtual

Rationale

Governance is realised by the citizens in the form of access to services such as health, education, sanitation, registration documents for identification, transportation, and so on. The effectiveness and relevance of these services determine the quality of governance systems. Access to these services for the poor, vulnerable and marginalised is particularly difficult and they are either paying for sub-standard services or are deprived of services altogether. This has led to the emergence of social accountability practices to hold people in the governance system, organisations and institutions answerable to this lack or inefficiency. However, any form of accountability is expected to work when citizens can make demands from powerful institutions.

Hence, the online blended course on ‘Social Accountability and Civic Engagement’ aims to equip the learners with the approaches of building accountability relationships between citizens and governance institutions driven by citizen participation. Skills to apply social accountability tools such as participatory planning, budget analysis, using RTI; community scorecard, etc. will enable learners to design their projects that would lead to improving responsiveness and accountability in service delivery by supporting service users to act