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Accountability

Learning to Improve for the Future

Claire Blackburn | Posted 20.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Ngo, Hunger, Accountability, Charity Impact, Learning, UK Impact, Humanitarian, Famine, World Issues, UK-Issues, UK News
Claire Blackburn

Learning and accountability is firmly on the NGO agenda nowadays and for Action Against Hunger, it is something we take very seriously. We dedicate a lot of energy into evaluating our programmes, learning from them and, fundamentally, holding ourselves to account for them.

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The Bangladeshi Garment Industry: Made for Exploitation?

Caroline Robinson | Posted 06.05.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Transparency, Global Supply Chain, Human Rights, USA, Labour Rights, Bangladesh, Slavery, Supply Chain, Accountability, Human Trafficking, UK Politics News
Caroline Robinson

The outrage at such severe abuses mirrors responses to human trafficking and 'modern day slavery', as all agree that exploitation should not have a place in our supply chains. But whether low pay or excessive hours, bonded labour or human trafficking, the common thread is profits trumping rights and talk in place of action.

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Take Responsibility for Your Relationship Breakdown And Divorce

Soila Sindiyo | Posted 21.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Marriage, Healing, Relationship, Responsibility, Relationships, Divorce, Accountability, Break-Up, Separation, UK Lifestyle News
Soila Sindiyo

Very often when I speak about taking responsibility for one's relationship breakdown, I'm met with strange looks, actually some of them are angry, antagonised looks that demand, "Are you trying to say that I put myself in this situation?"

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Pakistan: Mega Misnomers

Dr Sania Nishtar | Posted 10.04.2013 | UK
Read More: Democracy, Mdgs, Governance, Politics, Pakistan, Development, Investment, Accountability, Human Security, UK Impact, World, UK News
Dr Sania Nishtar

What has gone wrong? Why can't we get our act together? Although a number of factors contribute to this quagmire, it is the misuse and abuse of three attributes of state governance that is the root cause of many of the problems we face today - politics, democracy, and accountability are the most widely misunderstood words in the country.

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The BBC Car Crash Rolls on: Entwistle's Resignation Must Have the Rest of the Media Cackling

Sian Boyle | Posted 11.01.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: George Entwistle BBC Chief Resigns, Bbc, Today Programme, UK Media, Newsnight, John Humphrys, Lord McAlpine, Panorama, Accountability, John Simpson, Peter Rippon, George Entwistle Bbc, Media Criticism, UK Universities & Education News
Sian Boyle

What next for the great British Broadcasting Corporation? I predict that this car crash will play out, more heads will roll and the internal and external torrent of frenzied accusations will inevitably dry to a trickle. But I think it's important to remember that the BBC has produced excellent journalism, and in the scheme of things, a couple of (albeit very) bad decisions on Newsnight don't constitute the abolishment of the programme or of the BBC's entire 90-year-old reputation.

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A Question of Trust - Again

Mark Fletcher-Brown | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Trust, Accountability, Politicians, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, Cash for Access, Cash for Cameron, Peter Cruddas, Economy, David Cameron, UK Politics News
Mark Fletcher-Brown

At a time when our country faces some very difficult decisions about what we should do about public finances, hardly anyone trusts those who are leading the way ahead.

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Knowledge is Porridge

Fiona Melville | Posted 25.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Transparency, Responsibility, Taxpayers, Accountability, Public Spending, Open Government, Ben Gummer, UK Politics News
Fiona Melville

Ben Gummer's Ten Minute Rule Bill (to be introduced tomorrow) builds on something we suggested years ago. Well, two things, in fact.

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