areas in the spotlight
inclusion
A significant number of GPSA projects specifically focus on targeting vulnerable populations to include them in social accountability processes and ensure specific services for vulnerable people are accessible, responsive and of good quality. Some of these projects are centered around conditional cash transfers programs aiming at improving human development among poor households, while another focuses on reactivating local health committees and introducing Community Score Cards and locally designed charters to improve the inclusion of the most vulnerable in the local healthcare system.
In 2019 The GPSA organized its Annual Global Partners Forum in partnership with the World Bank’s Human Rights and Development Trust Fund, Open Society Foundations and the Public Service Accountability Monitor at Rhodes University around the role of social accountability in meeting the challenge of inclusion in public governance.