What is the link between accountability and transparency?
Transparency is an essential condition for accountability, but alone it is an insufficient one. Transparency is achieved through allowing public scrutiny of policies and practices. An organisation that says, “this is what we are, take it or leave it”, will rate high on transparency, but low on accountability overall, since this posture means that it is unwilling (and perhaps unable) to “take account of” the legitimate concerns of its customers, clients or beneficiaries.
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