Community-based monitoring and accountability

Community-based monitoring interventions (CBMIs) aim to facilitate increased accountability between service providers and service users, and by doing so reduce corruption and improve service delivery. There are many different versions of CBMIs and they are used in many sectors, including education. They typically include two key program components - provision of information about a service to service users and some form of mechanism that aims to facilitate community involvement. In practice, community based monitoring and accountability mechanisms refer to a broad range of initiatives that citizens can use to hold government officials accountable including participatory policy- making, public expenditure tracking, social audits and citizen report cards