Those making health care coverage decisions rely on health technology assessment (HTA) for crucial technical information. But coverage decision-making, and the HTA that informs it, are also inherently political. They involve the values and judgments of a range of stakeholders as well as the public. Moreover, governments are politically accountable for their resource allocation decisions. Canadi...

KERALA EXPERIENCE S. M Vijayanand1 What is Social Accountability? Accountability in its basic sense implies rendering of accounts and, by extension, indicates answerability to an external agency or group and, further, implies ensuring propriety, legality and safeguarding public interest in satisfaction of the expectations of the external agency or group. Social Accountability suggests account...

One of the central features of the 'rise' of the regulatory state has been the shift of particular policy functions to non-majoritarian institutions. Issues of accountability and transparency have therefore moved to the foreground of regulatory debates, both in the applied and academic public policy literature. This paper argues that a narrow debate on parliamentary oversight is too limited and...

The present study aims at identifying accountability and reporting answers to the public sector challenges surrounding value sustainability. To that end, we take into account Cohesion Policy Programmes, EU major investment strategy understand needs possible in terms of sector. Particularly, will consider how a specific policy, cohesion takes place practice Emilia-Romagna Region case, one most a...

Philanthropic foundations routinely evaluate and measure the performance of nonprofit organisations to which they distribute funds, as well programmes that are funded. Another aspect philanthropic foundations’ evaluation processes, receives comparatively little attention within academic or practitioner literature, concerns evaluations grant applications. While focus literature is mainly on ‘how...

We recognize support by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to Academy Fellow Staffan I. Lindberg, Grant 2018.0144, as well internal grants from Vice-Chancellor’s office of University Gothenburg.