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Transparency
as used in the humanities and in a social context more generally, implies openness, communication, and accountability. It is a metaphorical extension of the meaning a "transparent" object is one that can be seen through. Transparent procedures include open meetings, financial disclosure statements, freedom of information legislation, budgetary review, audits, etc.
Transparency
Management Radical transparency is a management method where nearly all decision making is carried out publicly. All draft documents, all arguments for and against a proposal, the decisions about the decision making process itself, and all final decisions, are made publicly and remain publicly archived.
Transparency
Non-governmental organizations Accountability and transparency are of high relevance for non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In view of the responsibilities towards stakeholders including donors, sponsors, programme beneficiaries, staff, states and the public, they are considered to be of even greater importance to them than to commercial undertakings. Yet these same values are often found to be lacking in NGOs.
Transparency
Media Media Transparency is the concept of determining how and why information is conveyed through various means. If the media and the public knows everything that happens in all authorities and country administrations there will be a lot of questions, protests and suggestions coming from media and the public. People who are interested in a certain issue will try to influence the decisions. Transparency creates an everyday participation in the political processes by media and the public.
Transparency
Politics In politics, transparency is introduced as a means of holding public officials accountable and fighting corruption. When government meetings are open to the press and the public, when budgets and financial statements may be reviewed by anyone, when laws, rules and decisions are open to discussion, they are seen as transparent and there is less opportunity for the authorities to abuse the system in their own interest.
Transparency
Lack of hidden agendas and conditions, accompanied by the availability of full information required for collaboration, cooperation, and collective decision making. Essential condition for a free and open exchange whereby the rules and reasons behind regulatory measures are fair and clear to all participants.
Accountability
is a concept in ethics and governance with several meanings. It is often used synonymously with such concepts as responsibility, answerability, blameworthiness, liability, and other terms associated with the expectation of account-giving.
Accountability
As an aspect of governance, it has been central to discussions related to problems in the public sector , non-profit and private (corporate) worlds.
Accountability
In leadership roles, accountability is the acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility for action, products, decisions, and policies including the administration, governance, and implementation within the scope of the role or employment position and encompassing the obligation to report, explain and be answerable for resulting consequences.
Accountability
The obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities, accept responsibility for them, and to disclose the results in a transparent manner. It also includes the responsibility for money or other entrusted property.
Accountability
You can delegate responsibility, but you cant delegate accountability to anyone. If someone gives you a job to do, you can get someone else to do it, but you are still accountable to produce the results. If the job is not done right the only person to blame is you, because even though youve delegated the responsibility, you are still accountable.
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Report on the observance of standards and codes of fiscal transparency The Fiscal ROSC is a project of the International Monetary Fund which takes a look at how the countries observe the international standards and codes. It focuses on twelve areas, one of which is fiscal transparency.
The Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency is based on the following principles Roles and responsibilities in government should be clear. Information on government activities should be provided to the public. Budget preparation, execution, and reporting should be open.
Fiscal information should attain widely accepted standards of data quality and be subject to independent assurances of integrity.
" Sec. 97. Transparency and Accountability in Government Operations. To enhance transparency and enforce accountability, each department, bureau, office or agency, especially the Constitutional Commissions, branches of government and offices enjoying fiscal autonomy, shall post on their official websites their respective approved budgets immediately upon approval of this Act,
performance measures and targets set in the organizational performance indicator framework approved by the DBM, major programs and projects to be implemented, annual procurement plan, contracts awarded and the name of contractors/suppliers/consultants, targeted and actual beneficiaries, utilization of funds, status of implementation, and program/project evaluation and/or assessment reports.
The respective heads of the above-stated agencies and offices shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with this section. Moreover, non-compliance with the foregoing requirements may be made a basis for the discontinuance of the program/project concerned."