Social Science Research Council

Two groups are increasingly raising issues of accountability. There are those who provide the resources for humanitarian action. These funders are asking that humanitarian organizations be accountable for their activities. The recipients of humanitarian action are increasingly demanding that humanitarian workers be accountable for their impacts. How should we think about accountability? To whom do humanitarian workers feel accountable? How do these different audiences create tensions in accountability?

May 2005 Presenters

Mary Anderson, Executive Director of CDA Collaborative Learning Projects and President of CDA (Collaborative for Development Action), Inc.
Link to Paper: "Accountability Beyound Counting: What is Humanitarian Aid Responsible For?"

Janice Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto and Director, Munk Centre for International Studies
Paper: "Accountability and Humanitarian Organizations"