From Social Accountability to a New Social Contract?
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Date
2016
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Routledge
Abstract
Social protection and social accountability initiatives are increasingly promoted as mechanisms for
securing a new social contract between states and citizens in developing countries. Evidence from Uganda
suggests that social protection programmes with built-in accountability arrangements led by non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) can enable states and citizens, in this case people living with HIV and AIDS, to ‘see’ each
other in different and more positive ways, and as such can provide clues as to how such interventions can help
build a social contract at the local level. This finding helps counter critical concerns that NGOs tend to
depoliticise state–society relations and undermine accountability.
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Accountability, NGO, Social Contract, Uganda
Citation
Bukenya, B. (2016). From social accountability to a new social contract? The role of NGOs in protecting and empowering PLHIV in Uganda. The Journal of Development Studies, 52(8), 1162-1176. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1134775