Donor Accountability

InterAction promotes donor accountability through our work on aid and development effectiveness. This work seeks to improve donors’ accountability to recipient governments, communities and civil society; to ensure donors are more transparent about how aid is spent; and to hold them accountable for achieving development results. In recent international agreements, such as the 2005 Paris Declaration and the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action, donors have committed to implementing a variety of measures aimed at increasing the effectiveness of aid, including improvements in mutual accountability and transparency.

NGO Accountability

NGOs are accountable to multiple constituencies, including donors, the public, their boards of directors and staff, partners and the people they serve.

InterAction promotes accountability within our own community in several different ways, through:

  • PVO Standards: To join and remain a part of InterAction, member organizations must adhere to InterAction’s Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) Standards. These standards help ensure that members are accountable in the vital areas of financial management, fundraising, governance and program performance. InterAction members must certify compliance every two years.
  • Monitoring & Evaluation: NGOs, donors and program participants want to know if development and humanitarian interventions are on track and producing intended results. InterAction supports consistent and rigorous M&E practices to help enable our members be accountable to their multiple stakeholders.
  • Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness: This international initiative, led by civil society organizations (CSOs), looks at the effectiveness of civil society’s work. The Open Forum’s mandate is to engage in a global consultative process with CSOs and other development partners to define the key principles of development effectiveness and the enabling conditions necessary for CSOs to operate effectively.
     

To learn more, download the Monday Developments issue (December 2007) on NGO Accountability.