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    Whose Accountability?: Participation and Partnership in a Disabling Environment

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    01/01/2000
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    Unom, Sam
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    Summary The article reviews the development of community participation and accountability under the auspices of a donor?funded basic health services project in Benue state, Nigeria. The three?year work of the Benue Health Fund Project in a challenging policy and institutional environment is presented from the standpoint that community involvement in health and indeed in other sectors is fundamentally compromised without an enabling environment. The article highlights a number of environmental constraints faced by the project. These include an unstable and often unsupportive policy regime; a bureaucratic system not given to devolution and decentralisation; the limited capacity of managers to support a process of accountability through participation; and the breakdown in relations between the people and the state. While the article emphasises that modelling was not an option in such a context, the specific mechanisms evolved to strengthen participation might still offer some lessons for practice elsewhere.
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    Unom, S. (2000) Whose Accountability?: Participation and Partnership in a Disabling Environment. IDS Bulletin 31(1): 78-87
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    10.1111/j.1759-5436.2000.mp31001013.x
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    IDS Bulletin Vol. 31 Nos. 1
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