Introduction The Government Accountability Office is the United States agency that is involved in the financial and evaluative accountability of the Federal Government and provides the auditing and evaluation report to the United States Congress (Wallechinsky‚ 2015). The mission of the agency is providing the necessary support to Congress towards attaining its constitutional responsibilities‚ improving the performance and also ensuring accountability of the Federal Government with American people
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democracy to the people that elected it‚ is to be accountable for its actions. Accountability is answerability‚ blame worthiness‚ liability and the expectation of account giving in relation to governance. (Dyxtra‚ Clarence‚ 1939) “As an aspect of governance‚ accountability has been central to discussions related to problems in the public sector‚ nonprofit and private (corporate) worlds. In leadership roles‚ accountability is the acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility for actions‚ products
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Accountability Legal Accountability: this means you have to follow the law that has been made at all times and you have to be seen as following the law. The police enforce this is taken very strictly. For example‚ the police have the: • Authority whose job is to oversee their work • Inspections by the Queens inspectors • Inspection by the Adult Commission • The independent Police Complaints Commission • The media‚ as they will publicise and may even twist things up to make it sound worse
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Funding Allocation and Accountability School Budget and Funding Funding Allocation and Accountability School finance issues are of paramount concern to all levels of the education system national‚ state‚ district‚ and school. Indeed‚ every child’s future‚ as well as the future of a society in general‚ depends largely on the quality of the educational system. As expectations rise for students and teachers to perform at higher levels‚ and for schools to guarantee the success of all students
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Individual in Public Services‚ 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition MICHAEL LIPSKY Winner of the 1980 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Winner of the 1981 Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association Winner of the 1999 Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award from the Policy Studies Organization First published in 1980‚ Street-Level Bureaucracy received critical acclaim for its insightful study of how public service workers‚ in
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P2 State the main sentences and orders criminal courts can impose Youth Sentences: A Detention and Training Order (DTO) is available for offenders aged between 12 and 17. The length of a DTO will be between four months and two years. Pre-court measures Community resolutions Youth Caution Youth Conditional Caution Final Warnings and Reprimands – the ’final warning scheme ’ – were replaced by youth cautions and youth conditional cautions on 8 April 2013‚ as part of the Legal Aid Sentencing
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Accountability pertains all the processes and procedures of being responsible to any area that is designated to a person. The health care industry is a very sensitive sector of the economy and therefore maximum accountability is required. The fact that the industry deals exclusively with the people makes it very sensitive. It has to ensure that whatever activity it undertakes‚ be it curative or preventive processes‚ it is done with the maximum care that is needed to prevent any calamities that may
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TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC SERVICEBROADCASTING IN NIGERIA BY PAULINE EHUSANI MATRIC NO.: 180806 Department of Communication and Language Arts Faculty of Arts University of Ibadan Lecturers Dr. Ayobami Ojebode Dr. Ngozi Onyechi Dr. Babatunde R. Ojebuyi Dr. K.O. Obono ©August‚ 2014 Abstract The concept of Public Service Broadcasting has been declared by many as eroding and vanishing fast. This is on the premise that not only has public support for this established
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Accountability is important‚ because without it‚ there’s no where to place the blame when mistakes occur. In fact‚ accountability covers more than just blameworthiness; responsibility‚ answerability‚ and liability also come into question when discussing the importance of accountability. The very application of the word‚ describes a system‚ in which actions‚ decisions‚ and policies are all accounted for (or: kept track of‚ recorded‚ and assessed and evaluated). Accountability can even extend into
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Accountability - Throughout the semester I would take ownership of everything I have done in class and including group work. I have always remembered to turn in my classwork on time and how it is instructed to be turned in. When receiving constructive criticism from my peers during the peer teaching activity‚ I did not come up with excuses for my actions‚ but thanked them for their feedback and thought about what they said. Respect – Everyday in class I displayed respect for my classmates and the
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