PROMOTING RESPONSIVE POLITICS VIA ACCOUNTABILITY ACTIONS

Lessons from Niger, Guatemala, and Kenya

This paper builds on NIMD’s conceptual framework that defines a collective understanding of responsive politics and articulates how NIMD and its partners integrate it into our programming. Per the framework, accountability and inclusion are central to responsive politics. In other words, politicians (and political actors more broadly) must put citizens at the centre of their work through inclusive and accountable politics, practices and policies.

The paper explores three case studies that show how NIMD (and partners) integrated accountability actions in their programming to encourage and promote more responsive politics in Niger, Guatemala, and Kenya.