Downward accountability to beneficiaries in social enterprises: do partnerships with nonprofits boost it without undermining accountability to other stakeholders?

Accountability in Voluntary Partnerships:

[Practising social accountability: From theory to action].

Screening for poverty. 2,3 Providing health care to uninsured migrants.4 Advocating for a national pharmacare program.5 These are but 3 examples of how family physicians are currently actualizing social accountability in Canada at the individual (micro), community (meso), and system (macro) levels. Social accountability is the social contract that medicine has with society.6 For care to be soci...

Social Accountability in Cambodia

A research-informed model for corporate social responsibility: towards accountability to impacted stakeholders

An Australian case study is presented of an ongoing conflict between Alcoa World Alumina, a multi-national mining company and the impacted stakeholders of Yarloop, a small rural community in Western Australia. The conflict has been subject to research by the author since the early 2000s and is the impetus for developing a model for corporate social responsibility (CSR). The model emphasises eng...

Considering social accountability in rehabilitation therapy school

As you know, there is increasing attention insocial accountability concept for medicaland other health professional schools. Despite theuniqueness of the concept of social accountability,it has different definitions in various fields. TheWorld Health Organization (WHO) has describedsocial accountability generally as follows: “theobligation to direct education, research andservice activities tow...