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Governor Hogan Signs an Executive Order Regarding School Accountability Initiatives. by Joe Andrucyk at Governors Reception Room, 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
Governor Hogan Signs an Executive Order Regarding School Accountability Initiatives. by Joe Andrucyk at Governors Reception Room, 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
Panel 1: Can Shareholders Save Democracy?
(From left to right): Moderated by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, with panelists William T. Allen, Robert Jackson, John Coates, Jennifer Taub.
The Brennan Center for Justice held a day-long symposium on Accountability After Citizens United at the Greene Space at WNYC in New York City.
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Two pounds down! As much as I don't really give the numbers that much credit I have to admit that it was very nice to see! I feel like I'm really trying to make better choices. I'm drinking a ton more water and althought it's tough since I often don't get back from yoga class until after 7:30pm I'm trying not to eat too much after 6pm. I've amped up the yoga practice too with my home practice. Just remind me not to do the crazy 30 min. "weight loss" vinyasa flow I did yesterday morning in the morning again. I'm still sore!
“We are pleased that the NYPD is finally disciplining officers who have violated New Yorkers’ civil rights. But you shouldn’t have to be a public official to expect police officers guilty of mistreating you to be disciplined,” NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said. “What about the indignities perpetuated every day on the streets on New York City? This issue is bigger than these individual police officers -- every police officer should get a basic civil rights lesson.”
To get involved, visit the NYCLU at www.nyclu.org.
Down 1.5 lbs.
I can't freekin' believe I actually lost anything considering the weekend I had. The spin in could have been disastrous enough (everyone brings a dish to share and OMG do they bring good stuff) but then I went out with friends for brunch on Sunday and that was not good for the food intake either. I guess being fairly good the rest of the week counted for something.
I probably won't be able to post next week unless my hotel room has a scale. We'll see what 5 days on the road does to me.
It's been quite a while since I've done one of these! I've been sort of casually keeping track of my pregnancy weight gain, but decided on a whim today to weigh myself for accountablility wednesday.
On June 17, I weighed 136. I was counting my pre-pregnancy weight as 137, and had weighed 138 the previous week, so I'm guessing that was a fluke.
Today I weigh somewhere around 148, which puts my total weight gain at 11 pounds. I am 25 weeks pregnant. My first pregnancy, I had gained 19 pounds at 25 weeks. I am thrilled to be gaining more slowly, and definitely credit the fact that last time I was gaining weight when I got pregnant (from quitting smoking) and this time I was losing weight. It seems that my body likes to keep doing whatever it is doing.
(By the way, I am certain the actual numbers on the scale are wrong. However, I think the difference between them is correct or close enough.)
Accountability Windmill desktop print image: Jump-start each day with a 5"x7" framed desktop print in every work area. This easel-backed framed desktop print has a matching motivational poster.
Accountability For Life (AFL) mentors at-risk adolescents in our York County, Pennsylvania community and beyond.
On Thursday, August 7, 2014, President Barack Obama signed H.R. 3230, the Veterans’ Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The bill provides the Department of Veterans Affairs the resources to improve access and quality of care for veterans. The president outlined three important areas the law will address: 1.) Giving VA the resources it needs-It will help VA hire more doctors and nurses and staff more clinics. 2.) Ensuring timely care: For Veterans who can’t get timely care through VA, this bill will help them get the care they need someplace else. And this is particularly important for Veterans who are in more remote areas, in rural areas. If you live more than 40 miles from a VA facility, or if VA doctors can’t see you within a reasonable amount of time, you’ll have the chance to see a doctor outside the VA system. 3.) Holding people accountable: If you engage in an unethical practice, if you cover up a serious problem, you should be fired. And if you blow the whistle on an unethical practice, or bring a problem to the attention of higher-ups, you should be thanked. You should be protected for doing the right thing. You shouldn’t be ignored, and you certainly shouldn’t be punished. (VA/Robert Turtil)
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill serves as the top-ranking Democrat, today unanimously approved three McCaskill-backed bills to save taxpayer dollars and strengthen accountability. The bipartisan pieces of legislation prohibit bonuses for employees who commit serious misconduct, target misuse of government purchase and travel cards, and make it easier for agencies to solicit feedback from taxpayers.
Click HERE for more photos from today’s committee meeting.
“We need to do all we can so taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars aren’t going to waste—and I’m proud to come together with my Republican and Democratic colleagues to help hold government more accountable to the people,” said McCaskill, former Missouri State Auditor. “There are many areas where we can and should work hand-in-hand to find solutions to common problems, and I’m committed to doing exactly that.”
The following bills unanimously passed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today and now await approval from the full Senate:
• The Federal Agency Customer Experience Act rolls back federal regulations that make it difficult for agencies to get feedback from the public concerning their satisfaction with agencies’ performance. McCaskill introduced the bill with Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma.
• The Stop Improper Federal Bonuses Act prohibits bonuses to government employees who have engaged in serious misconduct. McCaskill introduced the bill alongside Republican Senators Deb Fischer of Nebraska and Dean Heller of Nevada.
• The Saving Federal Dollars Through Better Use of Government Purchase and Travel Cards Act cracks down on waste, fraud and abuse in federal agency travel and purchase cards spending. McCaskill joined Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware to introduce the bill.
Since her time as Missouri State Auditor, McCaskill has been a leading voice in Missouri and Washington for cutting wasteful government spending. In addition to the bills that passed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today, McCaskill also introduced the Eliminating Government-Funded Oil-Painting (EGO) Act with Republican Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and Deb Fischer of Nebraska to prohibit federal dollars from being used for lawmakers’ portraits. McCaskill has also targeted waste, fraud, and abuse by expanding whistleblower protections to government contractors, subcontractors, and others who the federal government directly or indirectly hires through bipartisan bills that have been signed into law. During her first term in the Senate, McCaskill waged a successful six-year effort to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse in wartime contracting.
Syrian human rights defenders spoke out at a Human Rights Council side event September 21 to appeal to the international community to work to end the conflict in Syria and to ensure justice and accountability for the victims.
The discussion reinfored the essential role of Syrian civil society in the pursuit of a political solution to the war. The
The event was organized by No Peace Without Justice and the Euro-Syrian Democratic Forum, and co-sponsored by the U.S. and other national delegations to the HRC.
Speakers included: Hussein Sabbagh, Secretary General Euro-Syrian Democratic Forum; Niccolò Figà-Talamanca, Secretary General No Peace Without Justice; Riyad Al-Najem, Hurras, Syrian child protection network; Husam Alkatlaby, The Violations Documentation Center in Syria; Ola Aljounde, Women Now for Development; Diab Serrih, The Day After, Ambassador Peter Matt (Liechtenstein); Ambassador Julian Braithwaite (UK) and Ambassaodr Maurizio Enrico Serra (Italy). Ambassador Keith Harper, U.S. Representative to the Human Rights Council delivered concluding remarks.
U.S. Mission Photo/Eric Bridiers
Governor Phil Murphy alongside Commissioner Christine Norbut Beyer signs A-3707/S-2395 as a key part of the effort to implement the necessary accountability measures to exit from federal oversight of child protective services administered under the New Jersey Department of Children and Families on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 (Edwin J. Torres/NJ Governorâs Office).
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
MAZAR-E-SHARIF , 04 February 2017 - Participants at a one-day conference in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif discuss ways to strengthen coordination between civil society organizations.
They also discussed best practices, a common vision, and the promotion of transparency and accountability in governance and service delivery.
Photo UNAMA / Sayed Barez.
Prince George's County People's Coalition for Police Accountability arriving at the National Action Network JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN 100 CITY VIGIL Rally in front of US District Court / E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse at 333 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 20 July 2013 by Elvert Barnes PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHY
Follow PG County ENOUGH IS ENOUGH / TRAYVON MARTIN MARCHERS from WMATA Addison Road Station on facebook at www.facebook.com/events/380212962101079/
Elvert Barnes PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHY at elvertbarnes.com/protestphotography
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Governor Hogan Announces Proposed Legislation to Fix Failing Schools by Joe Andrucyk at Governors Reception Room, 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
Governor Hogan Signs an Executive Order Regarding School Accountability Initiatives. by Joe Andrucyk at Governors Reception Room, 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
The Moreton Bay Regional Council and its Major, Alan Sutherland, praise themselves for using environmentally paper in the publication of their "Moreton Living" and the "Major's Newsletter". Granted making environmental savings is a good thing.
Accountability would dictate that they disclose how many dollars they spent in the design, printing and distributuion of the 2 newsletters.
It would also be very interesting to know: how many tonnes of carbon emissions were produced with these newsletters; and how much water and energy was used.
Smiley knows that would be too much accountability for our council fathers to tolerate.............and Smiley also knows, that I will keep fighting on for what is right.
Governor Hogan Signs an Executive Order Regarding School Accountability Initiatives. by Joe Andrucyk at Governors Reception Room, 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
The men performed some unique traditional dancing at the accountability session in Starehe, Nairobi.
Photo by Christy Gillmore, 2010 Peace Fellow
Governor Hogan Signs an Executive Order Regarding School Accountability Initiatives. by Joe Andrucyk at Governors Reception Room, 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ( at the podium ) with Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Healtth Organization and Hamadoun Touré, Secrétary-Général, International Telecommunication Union during the Accountability for Women's and Children's Health
(UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre)
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-717
COMBATING WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING: Agencies Are Taking a Range of Actions, but the Task Force Lacks Performance Targets for Assessing Progress
Grace Farson, 2015 Nepal Communications Fellow, interviewed politicians, celebrities, and volunteers about their personal Integrity Idol to share on social media.
Governor Hogan Signs an Executive Order Regarding School Accountability Initiatives. by Joe Andrucyk at Governors Reception Room, 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
Governor Hogan Signs an Executive Order Regarding School Accountability Initiatives. by Joe Andrucyk at Governors Reception Room, 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
It's hard to weigh yourself and take your picture when you've got a cat rolling around on the bathmat right next to your feet. Zelda's a goofball.
Governor Hogan Announces Accountability And Transparency Legislation by Joe Andrucyk at Governors Reception Room, 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
The Capstone of the Year Award was presented to Fairfax County for its Alternative Accountability Program.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-23-106098
F-35 Program: DOD Needs Better Accountability for Global Spare Parts and Reporting of Losses Worth Millions
Representative Dean Philipps (D-MN) calls for accountability during the event "Justice for Jamal: The United States and Saudi Arabia One Year After the Khashoggi Murder."
To mark the one-year anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder, POMED and 12 other human rights and press freedom organizations held a public event on Capitol Hill to commemorate Jamal’s life, to call for accountability, and to cast a light on the Saudi government’s repression of those who are perceived to be critical of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his regime.
Thursday, September 26, 2019
9:00 am – 11:00 am
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-11
50 Constitution Ave NE, Washington, DC
Photo credit: April Brady/Project on Middle East Democracy
WHO’S ACCOUNTABLE HERE?
“Hey…that’s not MY job.” – “When is Lee going to get me that report?” - “What is going on with the marketing report?” – “ When are they going to finish that thing?”- “I can’t believe Kim is so late in making those phone calls.” - “Okay…who dropped the ball this time?”
Does this sound familiar? If so, your team may be faced with a very serious challenge with accountability, which results in finger pointing, frustration and broken trust…both with your employees and your customers. Personal responsibility and accountability can put an end to the blame game, saving your business a huge amount of money by increasing productivity and overall job satisfaction, which results in very satisfied customers. But accountability does not come naturally and has to be systematically developed (that includes team accountability exercises).
The first characteristic of a highly accountable team is the ability to set a clear direction, in other words, the ability to clearly define and communicate the results the team wants to achieve. Both accountability and culture change begin with well-defined results. In fact, it makes little sense to initiate any accountability or culture change process without first clearly identifying the results (outcomes) you want and need to deliver.
In short: What is mutual accountability? It’s a crucial element of a good team that requires that ALL TEAM MEMBERS are held EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE .
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The photo shows human resources managers from various companies and organisations at a team building event in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) on May 11 and 12, 2013 where they learned, among other things, the meaning of team accountability. Top Team’s Lawrence is on the left behind letter “A” and Top Team’s Tien is behind letter “L” of the word “accountable”
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Accountability, Achievement, and Action: High School Education Reform in the New Era
Arturo Vargas, executive director, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials
(February 12, 2009)
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - June 1: “Justice is Everybody’s Business”’, a civil society campaign for strong corporate due diligence legislation stages a stunt in front of the EU Parliament, Square Luxembourg on June 1, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium, 1/06/2023 ( Photo by Philip Reynaers / Photonews
Monrovia, Liberia - October 23, 2013: Alfred Sirleaf, a Liberian citizen journalist, started The Daily Talk in downtown Monrovia in 2000. Since then, his chalkboard newspaper has posted weekly headlines for local Liberians. By informing citizens of their rights and responsibilities, the Daily Talk will give citizens greater voice and dignity and will empower them to serve as a check against government corruption.
The chalkboard panels inward and rotate inside the small office where Alfred can prepare write and tape the latest news to the billboard newspaper. Photos by Morgana Wingard