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Doing Civil Society-Driven Social Accountability in a Disaster Context: Evidence from Post-Earthquake Nepal
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Abstract While accountability has gained significant traction within the contemporary discourse on disaster governance, what it means and takes to be 'doing accountability' in promoting democratic governance of disasters remain scantly understood. Using the concept of social accountability and drawing on an ... mehr
While accountability has gained significant traction within the contemporary discourse on disaster governance, what it means and takes to be 'doing accountability' in promoting democratic governance of disasters remain scantly understood. Using the concept of social accountability and drawing on an ethnographic case study of a civil society-led accountability campaign in post-earthquake Nepal (the Mobile Citizen Help Desk, or MCHD), this article shows how MCHD sought to amplify local voices regarding failures in aid delivery and expanded opportunities for dialogue between disaster-affected communities and local powerholders. It highlights the potential of such initiative in safeguarding and promoting the rights of disaster-affected communities, while also helping overcome the post-disaster environment of mistrust, unfounded allegations and power inequalities. The article also draws attention to the challenges facing such an initiative. It shows that the effectiveness of such efforts in translating citizens' voices into state response was undermined by: (i) its incorporation into a donor-driven humanitarian accountability initiative, in which generating and reporting feedback to donors proved more pressing than amplifying citizen voice; and (ii) unclear structures of governance at the local level of service delivery, which impeded the civil society actors' aim to engage with 'the right authority'. The article draws attention to the political potential of social accountability in a post-disaster context, while also raising caution that such activism is unlikely to succeed in holding powerholders to account in the absence of supportive national bureaucratic and international aid structures.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Nepal; Naturkatastrophe; Krisenmanagement; humanitäre Hilfe; Governance; Monitoring; Transparenz; Hilfeleistung; Effizienz; Südasien
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
accountability; civil society; disaster; earthquake; ethnography
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 395-406
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 8 (2020) 4
Heftthema
The Politics of Disaster Governance
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)