"The work of the Global Partnership for Social Accountability and its partners is therefore important, and urgent. What the GPSA calls a new generation of collaborative social accountability approaches, is about creating spaces for and building the capacities of citizens, communities, civil society groups, and public sector institutions to work collectively to identify and address real problems that people experience in their daily lives."
Louise Cord

Global Director, Social Sustainability and Inclusion

In 2012, the World Bank Board recognized, at the highest level of our institution, the importance of social accountability practice to the development process and created the Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA). 10 years later, the partnership has a track record of supporting some of the most innovative social accountability efforts in the world, working with country and global partners. The GPSA’s premise is that tackling development problems requires close collaboration between CSOs and their coalitions, communities, and different groups in society, and government bodies. This collaborative model can achieve public accountability while creating paths for more sustainable, scalable social accountability mechanisms beyond the lifetime of the project.

Our partners have delivered incredible results across many sectors and there has been promising new grants in several vital areas such as climate action and anti-corruption. They have shown the power and relevance of collaborative social accountability in addressing pressing development problems. We are pleased to present some of these results in this annual report.