How Can Donors Become More Accountable to Poor People?

This chapter explores the new pressures placed on all stakeholders who have begun to adopt a rights-based approach in terms of power, procedures and relationships. It proposes that official bilateral aid agencies are starting to recognize and respond to multiple lines of accountability. The conflicts and challenges arising from this response are examined and discussed with examples from Bolivia and India. Although highly problematic, the chapter sees this process as a positive step towards Northern governments being prepared to be held accountable by poor people in the South.