dc.contributor.author | Unom, Sam | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-01T14:47:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-01T14:47:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 01/01/2000 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Unom, S. (2000) Whose Accountability?: Participation and Partnership in a Disabling Environment. IDS Bulletin 31(1): 78-87 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1759-5436 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/8814 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
dc.format.extent | 10 | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin Vol. 31 Nos. 1 | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdf | en |
dc.title | Whose Accountability?: Participation and Partnership in a Disabling Environment | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | © 2000 Institue of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2000.mp31001013.x | en |