Author: United States, Government Accountability Office
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: schools, student, ease, transitions, congressional, committees, accountability, report, improve, monitoring, strengthening, process, close, could, charter
Number of Pages: 46
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 1428932453
ISBN-13: 9781428932456

Author: Kenneth P. Moorefield (ed)
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: security, forces, afghanistan, provided, explosives, accountability, control, ammunition, assessment
Number of Pages: 109
Published: 2011-05-01
ISBN-10: 1437982557
ISBN-13: 9781437982558

On March 7, 2009, a military assessment team was deployed to Afghanistan. The objectives of this assessment were to: Review the status of corrective actions initiated in response to previous reports on munitions accountability; Assess the current system for accountability and control to determine if it is adequate; and Determine whether the current security assistance program is effective in supporting munitions accountability and control. The team assessed the munitions supply chain from port of entry, through transportation, storage, distribution and formal turnover to ANSF, to issuance to A

Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: aid, trade, accountability, strengthening, dimension, development
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2011-10-31
eBookDB-ID: 9789264123

At a time when aid budgets are under pressure and scrutiny, there is a need to improve accountability. This is especially true in the case of aid for trade, which has become an increasingly important priority in development co-operation.   Strengthening Accountability in Aid for Trade looks at what the trade and development community needs to know about aid-for-trade results, what past evaluations of programmes and projects reveal about trade outcomes and impacts, and how the trade and development community could improve the performance of aid for trade interventions.

Author: Allyson Collins
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Keywords: united, states, accountability, brutality, justice, police, shielded
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 1998
ISBN-10: 1564321835
ISBN-13: 9781564321831

"Report from Human Rights Watch paints a disturbing portrait of the excessive use of force by police officers, and the overwhelming barriers to establishing accountability for officers who violate human and civil rights. Examines common obstacles to police abuse accountability, featuring fourteen large cities -- representative of most regions of the nation. Brutatility cases used for the report are laid out in detailed chapters by city. Research for the report was conducted between late 1995 and early 1998."--Scout report.

Author:
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: education, sectors, lessons, accountability, improvement, organizational
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833035002
ISBN-13: 9780833035004

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a performance-based accountability system built around student test results. The accountability system comprises explicit educational goals, assessments for measuring the attainment of goals and judging success, and consequences (rewards or sanctions). But the mechanisms through which the system is intended to work are not well understood. The authors examined five accountability models: two from the manufacturing sector (the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program and the Toyota Production System (TPS)), a performance incentive model used in the

Author: Laura S. Hamilton Brian M. Stecher
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: perspectives, journalists, foundations, accountability, based, audiences, test, external
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833035797
ISBN-13: 9780833035790

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires states to adopt test-based accountability systems designed to promote improved achievement by setting clear goals for student learning, measuring students

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: world, bank, lessons, accountability, society, synergy, state
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2004-06
ISBN-10: 0821358316
ISBN-13: 9780821358313

'State-Society Synergy for Accountability' is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.The central question guiding this study is: How can the relationship between the state and society be transformed from a process of particularistic demands into a healthier engagement that produces policy outcomes serving the public interest?The paper first surveys the literature on accountability and establishes a categorization of the different ways by which civil society can interact