Social Audit
A Social Audit is a method of public accountability in which citizens collectively examine official records of public spending and works and verify them against physical reality, culminating in an open public hearing where discrepancies are confronted in front of officials. Forged by the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) in Rajasthan, India, in the 1990s and later embedded in law through India's national employment guarantee programme (MGNREGA), the social audit turns the right to information into a tool for exposing corruption and securing redress.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Centre for Good Governance (2005). Social Audit: A Toolkit - A Guide for Performance Improvement and Outcome Measurement. Hyderabad: Centre for Good Governance. · URL
- Ringold, D., Holla, A., Koziol, M., & Srinivasan, S. (2012). Citizens and Service Delivery: Assessing the Use of Social Accountability Approaches in the Human Development Sectors. Washington, DC: World Bank. · ISBN 9780821389805
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.