Accountability resources
Advocates must act to hold decision-makers accountable for delivering on health-related commitments. There are a range of tools and approaches that have been developed for organizations engaging in accountability, from budget tracking to scorecards to media engagement.
Below are some of the tools that were discussed at the Advocacy Learning Lab: Accountably for Health in Nairobi in August, 2018.
Budget tracking
- Kenya's annual budget cycle calendar, Management Sciences for Health
- Budget work by country: Kenya, International Budgetary Partnership
- Open Budget Survey 2017, International Budgetary Partnership
- Improving Program-Based Budgeting in Kenya, International Budgetary Partnership
- Understanding Program-Based Budgeting: Toward Improved Budget Transparency in Kenya, International Budgetary Partnership
Scorecards
- The Community Score Card (CSC): A generic guide for implementing CARE’s CSC process to improve quality of services, CARE
- GFF CSOs Accountability scorecard, Evidence for Action-MamaYe
- Bungoma County, Kenya, RMNCAH Scorecard Oct 2017-March 2018, Evidence for Action-MamaYe
Citizen engagement and campaigns
- Advocacy for Better Health portfolio, PATH, USAID Advocacy for Better Health Project
- Community mobilization and action planning curriculum, PATH, Advocacy for Better Health Project
- Civil Society Health Manifesto 2016-2021, PATH, USAID Advocacy for Better Health Project
- Opportunities for Citizen-Inclusive Accountability for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health, White Ribbon Alliance, International Planned Parenthood Federation, World Vision, and Save the Children
- Social Accountability for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, White Ribbon Alliance
- Cultivating Accountability for Health System Strengthening, Management Sciences for Health, USAID, and Leadership, Management, and Governance Project
- Mobilizing Advocates from Civil Society (MACS): Advocacy and accountability for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, Management Sciences for Health
Capacity strengthening of decision-makers
- Recentralization within decentralization: County hospital autonomy under devolution in Kenya, PLOS One
- “We are toothless and hanging, but optimistic”: sub county managers’ experiences of rapid devolution in coastal Kenya, BMC
- Autonomy in the Bungoma County Health System: Effects on Health System Performance, Options, Maternal and Newborn Improvement Project, and Marie Stopes International
- Implementing Linda Mama in Bungoma County: Lessons on the path to universal health care, Options, Maternal and Newborn Improvement Project
- Kenya investment case brief summary, Evidence for Action-MamaYe
- Improving Maternal Health Measurement Capacity and Use National Dialogue, White Ribbon Alliance
- Advocacy capacity assessment tool: Facilitator's guide, Advocacy for Better Health
Tool compendiums and further information
- Social Accountability Resources and Tools, USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program
- Knowledge Platform, Global Partnership for Social Accountability
- Accountability Research Center, American University
Additional resources
- View Dropbox link for additional accountability tools