, agencies, modalities, and problems addressed. Critical to the debate on aid, in my view, is to focus on the accountability … towards both the funders and recipients of aid, and the international community needs to ensure strengthened accountability …

The concept and practices of accountability enjoy considerable interest today, not least due to the World Development … poor, service providers, policy makers and politicians. This paper  explores accountability starting from realities faced … for the poor and women, but not limited to them- of the power dimensions of accountability, institutionalised inequalities …