Transparency International

The ultimate Coalition against Corruption

http://www.transparency.org/

Parliamentary Network on the World Bank

Parliamentarians monitor the activities of the World Bank: but who is watching the watchers?!

http://www.pnowb.org/

Institute for Global Policy

The Institute for Global Policy monitors the United Nations: lucky folks!

http://www.inglobalpolicy.org

Halifax Initiative

And you thought that the G8 were untouchable…

http://www.halifaxinitiative.org

Bretton Woods Project

Keep up to date with the Brave New World Order…

Bretton Woods Project: Monitors the World Bank and IMF

http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/

Bank Track

A nice accountability link… less related to disasters, but hey! Follows the activities of private investment banks

http://www.banktrack.org/

One World Trust

Monitors the global institutions for change – excellent organisation

http://www.oneworldtrust.org/

Hard Choices – Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention

 

This is a towering book that should be a obligatory read for every disaster manager. With contributions from academics such as Mary Anderson (Rising from the Ashes), politicians such as Kofi Annan and the ‘real thing’ such as General Romeo Dallaire (Head of UN Peacekeepers during Rwandan genocide), this uncompromising and insightful book from the Red Cross is a headlong tackle into the darkest moral quagmires of humanitarian intervention. Events such as Darfur make this pre-Kosovo book even more relevant than ever. Unique and superb in every way.

http://www.disasternetwork.co.uk/170007.htm

Some good papers on accountability

BLEWITT, R., 2005. Good donorship: how serious are the donors? Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (29): 4-6.

BRABANT, K., 2000. Regaining perspective: the debate over quality assurance and accountability. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (17): 22-25.

COLLISON, D., 2003. Corporate propaganda: its implications for accounting and accountability. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 16 (5): 853-886.

DAVIS, A., 2003. Accountability and humanitarian actors: speculations and questions. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (24): 16-18.

LEADER, N., 1999. Codes of conduct: who needs them? Relief and Rehabilitation Network Newsletter, no.13: 1-4.

MACRAE, J. AND HARMER, A., 2003. Good humanitarian donorship: a mouse or a lion? Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (24): 9-12.

MITCHELL, J., 2003. Accountability: the three-lane highway. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (24): 2-4.

WILLITTS, B., 2005. The EU: good humanitarian donorship and the world’s biggest humanitarian donor. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (29): 10-13.

Humanitarian Accountability Partnership

The result of the Humanitarian Ombudsman Project that concluded an ombudsman system was not appropriate for the humanitarian sector due to the lack of commonly agreed standards.

http://www.hapinternational.org/en/