Global Accountability Report (GAR)

The Global Accountability Report (GAR) presents an assessment of the accountability of the world's most powerful organisations to the people they affect. The Report analyses organisations from the intergovernmental, corporate and non-governmental sectors, according to four dimensions: transparency, participation, evaluation, and complaint and response mechanisms. The organisations are assessed on how they integrate key accountability principles into their organisational policies and the management systems. Together policies and systems make up an organisation’s accountability capability.

The Report is a unique initiative that identifies trailblazers and laggards, highlights specific areas of reform, and provides a global picture of accountability trends and challenges based on quantitative measurements. In doing so, it provides a common frame of reference on accountability and extends the basic principles of democracy to the global level.

2008 Global Accountability Report
Main findings: a need for a step change in global accountability


The results of this year’s assessment reveal a clustering of overall accountability capabilities scores around the 70% mark, indicating that an organisation has accountability policies and systems in place that meet only some good practice principles. This is the floor, not the ceiling, of accountability capabilities. If global organisations are to be part of the solution to global challenges, there needs to be a step change in their approaches to accountability. They need to start implementing the more challenging accountability reforms which truly empower external stakeholders to hold an organisation to account.

Perkumpulan Prakarsa will works with One World Trust as one of the partner organisations in the promotion of accountable global governance and disseminate the findings of the Global Accountability Report in Indonesia.

Please check on One World Trust for more detailed information about the 2008 Global Accountablity Report (GAR2008).