Accountability in disaster risk financing
This working paper seeks to support the emerging awareness that the DRF sector needs to better understand and implement accountability—and specifically accountability to the at-risk people it exists to benefit. It aims to begin to fill the evident gap in thinking about accountability, as well as the evidence gap documenting where and how it is, and could be, put into practice.
It finds that while examples of, and building blocks for, a practical understanding of accountability do exist, implementation is highly selective and rarely a strategic consideration. However, the paper also finds an emerging desire to address the accountability deficit, driven both by principles and efficacy imperatives. To support future work in this regard, the paper concludes with a series of questions for further evidence, analysis and action, which it is hoped will be catalysts for a new level of intra- and inter-stakeholder attention to accountability.
Explore further
