This website is a practical "how to" guide to community
accountability, government performance and accountability, non-profit
performance and accountability.
Tips on how to use the
guide
1. Use the navigation bar at the top of the page to get around the guide.
2. Remember, if you want to go to the previous page, use the Back
Key.
3. For those with little time or patience, each page has a "Short
Answer" at the top which can be read quickly, and a list of Tips
and Tools.
4. When printing, the best copy may be obtained by setting your printer to print
black and white only.
Because this is a web-based
guide, there are many different ways to use it. You can read it as a normal
paper from beginning to end. Or you can jump around to find things that
interest you. There are many tools to help you find what you want. See
the choices on the home page. The paper can be
accessed in any of the following ways (click on any to go there):
Index
of Questions: The guide is built around a series of questions and
answers. All the questions in the paper are listed in one
place. You can read through them, click on the one you want to read, and go to
a special page with a short answer, a full answer, and a listing of tools,
tips and
case studies.
One question after the other: Start
at any question and click "next," or "back" and you can read the answers to
the questions in order for as many questions as you want.
Index of Topics: Topics are presented
in two ways: by major section of the paper (e.g. Results Accountability,
Identifying Indicators etc.) and by an common index of words or concepts in
alphabetical order. After each topic is a list of the numbered questions
that address that topic.
Active Schematics: There are two pictures,
one of the results accountability thinking process, and one of the performance
accountability thinking process. You can click on any part of
these schematics and go to the first question that address that particular
element of the process.
Index of Tools: This is a separate list of all the tools, forms
and pictures referenced in the text so you can look at these without
going through all the answers.
Search: You can search the entire paper using a
key word or phrase.
Case Studies: This is a separate list of all
case examples so you can look at these without going through all the
answers.
Advice from practitioners: Read advice
on how to do this work from people who have actually done it, or are damn
good at talking about it..
Resource list: Go directly to an
inventory of written and organizational resources which might help. Many can
be accessed on line directly from the guide.
If you can think of some other way you would like to use or access this
guide,
please contact us with your suggestions.
