NGO Accountability
Dr David Yates leads this project, with input from collaborators both within Sheffield University and externally. The aims of the project are to explore NGO accountability within a variety of contexts, both within the United Kingdom and globally.
Project description
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) represent a significant element of contemporary global society. With trends roll-back of state provision of public services, NGOs have filled many of the gaps created as a result of government policy with regard to this issue. As NGOs account for increasingly larger sums of sunding and scope of activities, their accountability to their stakeholders has been brought into question. Issues around balancing the accountability requirements of donors and beneficiaries, alongside remaining true to a core mission and vision all enter the dynamic landscape that encompasses NGO accountability.
This project seeks to explore NGO accountability within several contexts, including humanitarian beneficiary engagement, accountability in crisis situations, regulation of individual charities and the wider sector, and the accountability of donors themselves in their giving patterns and choices.
Key research outputs
- Cordery C & Yates D (in press) Regulatory responses to build charity financial resilience: ‘Tow Truck’ or ‘Guardian Angel’?. Financial Accountability and Management.
- Yates D & Difrancesco RM (2024) ‘Accountability-With’ and ‘Research-With’? Ethics, accountability, and relatedness in the research act; assisting the homeless in a religious NGO In Letiche H, De Loo I, Moriceau J-L & Cordery C (Ed.), Accountability Research Ethnographic Methods in Organisation and Accounting. Routledge
- Yates D & Difrancesco RM (2022) The view from the front line: shifting beneficiary accountability and interrelatedness in the time of a global pandemic. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 35(1), 85-96.
- Yates D, Belal A, Gebreiter F & Lowe A (2021) Trust, accountability and ‘the Other’ within the charitable context: U.K. service clubs and grant‐making activity. Financial Accountability and Management, 37(4), 419-439.
