BACKGROUND Barriers to expanding access to medicines include weak pharmaceutical sector governance, lack of transparency and accountability, inadequate attention to social services on the political agenda, and financing challenges. Multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) may help overcome these barriers. Between 2008 and 2015, MeTA engaged stakeholders i...

Health care systems are faced with the challenge of resource scarcity and have insufficient resources to respond to all health problems and target groups simultaneously. Hence, priority setting is an inevitable aspect of every health system. However, priority setting is complex and difficult because the process is frequently influenced by political, institutional and managerial factors that are...

Sanitizable signatures enable a designated party to modify signed documents in a controlled way, while the derived signature still verifies. In this paper, we introduce the notion of non-interactive and public accountability. It allows a third party to determine whether a message-signature pair was issued by the signer or the sanitizer. The original notion of accountability does not satisfy Eur...

Data-accountability encompasses responsibility for data and the traceability of data flows. This is becoming increasingly important for Socio-Technical Systems (STS). Determining root causes for unwanted events after their occurrence is often not possible, e.g. because of missing logs. A better traceability of root causes can be supported by the integration of accountability mechanisms at desig...

The goal of this program is to use implementation science methods to evaluate strategies that increase the effectiveness of Early Childhood Development (ECD) programming and improve developmental outcomes for infants and young children affected by HIV/AIDS. This goal will be achieved by working with local partners and community based organizations to implement evidencebased family oriented and ...

background: social accountability in the schools of medicine is very important. it is an essence to recognize the methods and models used and implemented in the world in order to make use of the results and experiences. therefore, the purpose of the present study was to review some models of social accountability in the world. methods: the key words, including social accountability, faculty of ...

The paper aims to explore a conceptual framework in which improvement on waqf management may be made focusing on its relationship with beneficiaries. The study uses accountability as the main theoretical lens informing this, where waqf management does not merely see beneficiaries as the passenger in the relationship, rather, as one of the means to improve waqf management. Drawing from NGO accou...