our theory of action
Through its grants, the GPSA facilitates collaboration of civil society organizations with governments, and engagement of citizens in joint, iterative problem solving in order to solve development problems, strengthen accountability and improve sector governance. Our theory of action describes this collaborative social accountability approach.
our evolution
The GPSA is established at the World Bank as a Multi-donor Trust Fund
1st Country-tailored Calls for Proposals
1st Global Partners Forum
Participants from 165 partners organizations gather to discuss What works in Social Accountability
2nd Global Partners Forum
Participants discussed Social Accountability for Citizen-Centric Governance: A Changing Paradigm
3rd Global Partners Forum
The Forum on Social Accountability for Development Impact convened over 300 participants
4th Global Partners Forum
Citizen Action for Open, Accountable and Inclusive Societies
5th Global Partners Forum
Money Matters: Public Finance and Social Accountability for Human Capital
6th Global Partners Forum
Social Accountability and the Challenge of Inclusion
7th Global Partners Forum
the GPSA
and the
World Bank
In 2012, the World Bank established the Global Partnership for Social Accountability as a Multi-donor Trust Fund with the purpose of bridging the feedback loop between what citizens want and what governments actually do.
The GPSA’s position at the World Bank is significant, as it gives us the opportunity to leverage the World Bank’s formidable institutional stature and relationship with governments and its partners to create an enabling environment for state-citizen collaboration, government responsiveness, and empowerment, participation and inclusion of citizens in the development process.